Table of Contents

Section 1: What is the mind?
Plato (428/427-348/347 BC)
The Cave
-from The Republic
Hippocrates (460-377, BC)
Tradition in Medicine
Dreams
Nature of Man
- from The Hippocratic Collection
Aristotle (384-322 BC)
Book 1, Chapter 1
Book 3
-from de Anima
St. Augustine of Hippo (397)
Memory
-from Confessions
St. Thomas Aquinas (1265)
Human nature-embodied spirit
Human abilities-bodily and spiritual
How man knows
-from Summa theologiae
Section 2: Mechanisms of Mind
René Descartes (1650)
Treatise of Man
-Selections
John Locke (1689)
Of Ideas in General, and their Original
Of Perception
-from An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
Gottfied Wilhelm Leibniz (1765)
Of Ideas
-from New Essays on Human Understanding
David Hume (1748)
Of the Origin of Ideas
Of the Association of Idea
Of the Idea of Necessary Connection
-from An Inquiry Concerning Human Understanding
Immanuel Kant (1798)
On the Cognitive Faculty
-from Anthropology from a Pragmatic Point of View
Section 3: Scientific Methods
Gustav Fechner (1860)
Introduction
Outer Psychophysics
-from Elements of Psychophysics
Hermann von Helmholtz (1878)
The Facts of Perception
-Speech held at the Commemoration-Day Celebration of the Frederick William University in Berlin, August 3, 1878
Hermann Ebbinghaus (1885)
Our Knowledge Concerning Memory
The Method of Investigation
-from Memory: A Contribution to Experimental Psychology
Ivan Pavlov (1927)
Lectures on the Work of the Cerebral Hemispheres
-from Conditioned Reflexes: An Investigation of the Physiological Activity of the Cerebral Cortex
Section 4: Emotion and Instinct in Animals and Humans
Charles Darwin (1873)
General Principles of Expression
-from Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals
Margaret Floy Washburn (1907)
The Difficulties and Methods of Comparative Psychology
The Evidence of Mind
-from The Animal Mind
William James (1892)
Emotion
Instinct
-from Psychology: A Briefer Course
Francis Galton (1907)
The History of Twins
Selection and Race
Influence of Man Upon Race
Conclusion
-from Inquiries into Human Faculty and its Development
Section 5: Human Development
Milicent W. Shinn (1900)
Baby Biographies in General
The Dawn of Intelligence
-from The Biography of a Baby
Sigmund Freud (1910)
The Origin and Development of Psychoanalysis: Third, Fourth, and Fifth Lectures
-from The American Journal of Psychology
Alfred Binet & Theodore Simon (1905)
New methods for the diagnosis of the intellectual level of subnormals
-from L'Annee Psychologique
Hugo Munsterberg (1913)
Applied Psychology
Means and Ends
Vocation and Fitness
-from Psychology and Industrial Efficiency
Section 6: What is the Goal of Psychology?
Wilhelm Wundt (1894)
Lectures 1 and 30
-from Lectures on Human and Animal Psychology
Max Wertheimer (1923-24)
Gestalt theory
-Address before the Kant Society, 1924
Laws of Organization in Perceptual Forms
-from Psychologische Forschung, 1923
E. B. Titchener (1927)
Ideational type and the Association of Ideas
-from Experimental Psychology: A Manual of Laboratory Practice
Section 7: Learning
John B. Watson (1913)
Psychology as a Behaviorist Views It
-from Psychological Review
Edward C. Tolman (1948)
Cognitive Maps in Rats and Men
-from Psychological Review
D. O. Hebb (1949)
The First Stage of Perception: Growth of the Assembly
-from The Organization of Behavior: A Neuropsychological Theory
Section 8: Cognition
Jean Piaget (1923)
The Functions of Language in Two Children of Six
-from The Language and Thought of the Child
L. S. Vygotski (1934)
Thought and Word
-from Mind in Society
B. F. Skinner (1957)
The Mand
-from Verbal Behavior
Noam Chomsky (1959)
Verbal Behavior, review
-from Language
Sir Frederic C. Bartlett (1932)
The Method of Repeated Production
-from Remembering: A Study in Experimental and Social Psychology
Ulric Neisser (1967)
The Cognitive Approach
A Cognitive Approach to Memory and Thought
-from Cognitive Psychology
Section 9: Considerations of Context
James J. Gibson (1979)
The Theory of Affordances
-from The Ecological Approach to Visual Perception
James L. McClelland, David E. Rumelhart, and Geoffrey E. Hinton (1986)
The Appeal of Parallel Distributed Processing
-from Parallel Distributed Processing: Explorations in the Microstructure of Cognition
V. S. Ramachandran and Sandra Blakeslee (1999)
Do Martians See Red?
-from Phantoms in the Brain: Probing the Mysteries of the Human Mind

Reviews

"I would recommend it as supplementary reading" Times Higher Education Supplement, March 2004.