Philosophy of psychology

What is the relationship between common-sense, or ‘folk’, psychology and contemporary scientific psychology? Are they in conflict with one another? Or do they perform quite different, though perhaps complementary, roles? George Botterill and Peter Carruthers discuss these questions, defending a robust form of  realism about the commitments of folk psychology, and about the prospects for integrating those commitments into natural science.THE PHILOSOPHY OF PSYCHOLOGY (umd.edu)There is "a vast range of topics which could be discussed under the heading of ‘philosophy of psychology’, and a great many different approaches to those topics could be taken."Apparently Pete Carruthers (philosopher). "Psychology as a science dates back at least to Aristotle’s De Anima (4th century BCE). During the 17th century scientific revolution, just as physics and astronomy had been reformed by changing concepts of explanation, attempts were made to reform psychology by following new explanatory practices. However, it was only in the 19th century that psychology emerged as a full-fledged quantitative science, and only in the 20th that philosophy of psychology emerged as a field distinct from psychology itself [...]."Philosophy of Psychology 2016–17 Course Organiser: Dr. Mark Sprevak (mark.sprevak@ed.ac.uk) Office Location: 5.12, Dugald Stewart Building Office Hourse: Monday mornings, book a slot using this link to arrange a meeting: https://calendly.com/sprevak/office-hours-meeting Course Secretary: Sam Bell (philinfo@ed.ac.uk)
== Media ==
An Introduction to the Philosophy of Psychology. Daniel Weiskopf, Georgia State University, Fred Adams, University of DelawareAn Introduction to the Philosophy of Psychology | Higher Education from Cambridge. (cambridge.org).
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Psychology concepts