Psychology as a Natural Science in the Eighteenth Century

Psychology as a natural science in the eighteenth century.

Psychology considered as a natural science began as Aristotelian “physics” or “natural philosophy” of the soul. C. Wolff placed psychology under metaphysics, coordinate with cosmology. Scottish thinkers placed it within moral philosophy, but distinguished its “physical” laws from properly moral laws (for guiding conduct). Several Germans sought to establish an autonomous empirical Psychology as...

Inventing human science: eighteenth-century domains

Michael MacDonald's piece on the social history of suicide-represent summaries of an author's previous, more detailed scholarship. A number provide preliminary offerings of new ideas and information, which the reader imagines will go on to appear with elaboration in larger scholarly form. Examples of this last category are Ian Dowbiggin's brief study of theories of paranoia in French mental med...

Remaking the Science of Mind: Psychology as Natural Science

Psychology considered as a natural science began as Aristotelian “physics” or “natural philosophy” of the soul. C. Wolff placed psychology under metaphysics, coordinate with cosmology. Near the middle of the eighteenth century, Krueger, Godart, and Bonnet proposed approaching the mind with the techniques of the new natural science. At nearly the same time, Scottish thinkers placed psychology wi...

The audience for science in eighteenth century Edinburgh.

Animal, Vegetable, Mineral? How Eighteenth-Century Science Disrupted the Natural Order.

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