Author

Publication

1999 - Routledge, London, England

Language

English

Word Count

103,250 words, Guess

Page Count

413 pages

Identifiers

and 3 more
  • Library of Congress Control Number98035091
  • Goodreads2522965
  • LibraryThing3094124

Classifications

  • DDC150/.1
  • LCCBF38 .K87 1999

Description

Psychologists and philosophers have assumed that psychological knowledge is knowledge about, and held by, the individual mind. Psychological Knowledge challenges these views. It argues that bodies of psychological knowledge are social institutions like money or the monarchy, and that mental states are social artefacts like coins or crowns. Psychological Knowledge is both an introduction to the workings of constructivism as well as an insightful exploration of the history of psychology and the recent developments in philosophy of the mind.

Subjects

Series Statement

  • Philosophical issues in science

Other Editions

  • Psychological knowledge: a social history and philosophyRoutledge1999-01-01

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