Evolutionary Thought in Psychology (eBook)
184 Seiten
John Wiley & Sons (Verlag)
978-0-470-77540-0 (ISBN)
* First book to trace the history of evolutionary thinking in psychology from its beginnings to the present day in an accessible and lively fashion.
* Focuses on the rise of evolutionary theories begun by Lamarck and Darwin and the creation of the science of psychology.
* Explains evolutionary thought's banishment by behaviorism and cultural anthropology in the early 20th century, along with its eventual re-emergence through ethology and sociobiology.
* Examines the complex and changing relations between psychology and evolutionary theory.
Henry Plotkin is Professor of Psychobiology at University College London. He is the author of Darwin Machines (1994), Evolution in Mind (1997) and most recently The Imagined World Made Real (2002)."
Preface ix
CHAPTER 1 CURIOUS HISTORIES 1
CHAPTER 2 BEFORE DARWIN 9
Preliminaries 10
Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck 20
Herbert Spencer 24
CHAPTER 3 PSYCHOLOGY BORN AND THE DARWINIAN REVOLUTION 28
The New Science of Mind 28
The Darwinian Revolution 33
Darwin's Immediate Successors 38
Early Psychology in the United States 44
CHAPTER 4 THE NEAR DEATH OF DARWINISM IN THE SOCIAL SCIENCES 48
Evolution after Darwin 48
Behaviorism Takes Hold in Psychology 53
The Rise of Cultural Anthropology 62
CHAPTER 5 AN EXCEPTIONAL CASE 70
The Fundamental Problem 71
A New Factor in Evolution 77
Evolutionary Epistemology 83
Fall and Decline 88
CHAPTER 6 LESSONS TO BE LEARNED: ETHOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY 90
Classical Ethology 91
Sociobiology 105
CHAPTER 7 CONTEMPORARY EVOLUTIONARY PSYCHOLOGY 123
Evolutionary Theory from 1959 124
Necessary Precursors in the Main Discipline 129
Evolutionary Psychology Reborn 134
Which Side is Bringing Science into Disrepute? 148
A Natural Science of Culture 154
CHAPTER 8 FUTURE PROSPECTS 158
References 162
Index 166
"Henry Plotkin is unique among academic psychologists in his gift
for lucid and provocative exposition; in this book, his latest
exploration of evolutionary thinking in psychology, he delivers a
superbly crafted historical portrait of his own discipline: he
tells us why Darwinian psychologists think as they do, and what we
can expect from the felicitous new alliance of psychology with
biology and the social sciences." Frank R. Wilson, Stanford
University School of Medicine
"In the 19th century, Darwin's theory of evolution was
initially integrated into the new science of psychology by pioneers
such as Lloyd Morgan, George John Romanes, and James Mark Baldwin.
But in the 20th century it was as if their efforts had been wasted;
a self-names 'science' that insisted on ignoring
conscious experience itself, as well as any of its determinants
that might be of direct or indirect genetic origin, took over
academic departments of psychology. But Plotkin compellingly
describes how 21st century psychology, which will be about
consciousness as well as the brain, will probably incorporate
findings from ethology, sociobiology, and evolutionary theory
(including ideas about 'selfish' genes)...a
must-read." David J. Murray, Queen's University
"This book is a true reflection of its title, a history of
evolutionary thought within psychology, building on Darwin's
original ambition to extend his theory to a science of the human
mind. It runs through the eclipse of this thinking by behaviourism
and its return in the last 20 years in the various forms of
evolutionary psychology. A very readable introduction to the
field." Scientific and Medical Network Review, Summer
2005
"Plotkin gives an erudite and engaging account of the
intellectual currents that influenced the relationship between
psychology and evolutionary thought over the past 100
years.....Interspersed throughout are interesting anecdotes,
colorful descriptions of personalities, and accounts of twists of
fate that affected careers and influenced the history of
psychology....For any psychologist interested in the history of
ideas -and how intellectual currents, politics and chance events
can affect scientific paradigms-it is a must read. It's lasting
value is that it provides a lucid and well-documented hisotry of
the intellectually shameful exculsion of evolutionary thought in
psychological theory during most of the 20th century. Thankfully,
that exclusion is being remedied in the 21st century." Personnel
Psychology, Summer 2005
`This is science writing of a high order, and I hope this book
has the wide readership it so strongly merits.' Michael Ruse,
Journal of the History of the Behavioural Sciences, Autumn
2005
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 8.5.2008 |
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Reihe/Serie | Blackwell Brief Histories of Psychology | Blackwell Brief Histories of Psychology |
Sprache | englisch |
Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Allgemeine Psychologie |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Verhaltenstherapie | |
Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Evolution | |
Schlagworte | Brain & Behavior: Physiological Psychology • Geschichte u. Philosophie der Psychologie • History & Philosophy of Psychology • Physiologische Psychologie • Psychologie • Psychology |
ISBN-10 | 0-470-77540-8 / 0470775408 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-470-77540-0 / 9780470775400 |
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