Psychological Knowledge: A Social History and Philosophy

by Martin Kusch

Book Overview

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.
Martin Kusch takes on arguments of alternative proposals, shows what is wrong with them, and demonstrates...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415379318
• ISBN13: 9780415379311
• Release Date: February 1999
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 428 Pages
• Weight: 1.18 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.6" x 8.4"