Origins of contemporary psychology
By: by Cardinal Mercier.  Tr. by W. H. Mitchell, M. A.
Contributors: Mitchell, William Henry, 1859-
Publisher: P. J. Kenedy & sons
Published: 1918
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 351
Subjects: Psychology
Table of contents: title: CONTENTS; title: Introduction v; title: CHAPTER I; title: The Psychology of Descartes i; title: Art. I. Its exclusively Spiritualistic Theory i; title: Art. II. Its Mechanical Theory as applied to the Study of Man, or to Anthropology 21; title: CHAPTER II; title: The Evolution of the Cartesian Psychology 37; title: Art. I. The Evolution of the Cartesian Spiritualism 38; title: Section I. Occasionalism, Spinozism, Ontologism 38; title: Section II. Idealism:; title: 1. The Origin of Idealism 41; title: 2. The Origin of the Positivist Character of Idealism 49; title: Art. II. The Origin of Mechanism (the Mechanical Theory) 53; title: CHAPTER III; title: Contemporary Psychology 69; title: Art. I. The Insufficiency of Positivist Idealism for the Solution of the Fundamental Problems of Psychology 69; title: Contemporary Psychology — continued :; title: Art. II. Masters of Contemporary Psychology 79; title: Herbert Spencer 79; title: Alfred Fouillee 108; title: Wilhelm Wundt 125; title: Art. III. General Characteristics of the Psychology of To day 160; title: Exclusive Study of the Facts of Consciousness 161; title: Abandonment of Metaphysics 164; title: Experimental Studies 207; title: CHAPTER IV; title: Psychology and Anthropology 216; title: CHAPTER V; title: Criticism of Idealist Principle 247; title: CHAPTER VI; title: Criticism of the Principles of Mechanism 263; title: Mechanism and Physical Science 264; title: Mechanism and the Doctrine of Final Causes 272; title: CHAPTER VII; title: Criticism of Positivist Principles 284; title: CHAPTER VIII; title: Neo Thomism 320; title: Conclusion 349