ABSTRACT

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 how his own social-philosophical approach constitutes an advance. We see that exists a substantial natural amount of philosophical theorising, a body of work that tries to determine the nature and structure of folk psychology.
An introduction to the workings of constuctivism, Psychological Knowledge is an insightful introduction to the history of psychology and the recent philosophy of mind.

chapter |4 pages

Introduction

part |1 pages

Part I A Social History of Psychological Knowledge

chapter |6 pages

Introduction to Part I

chapter 1|39 pages

The Würzburgers

chapter 2|17 pages

Friends and Foes

chapter 4|27 pages

Purist Versus Promiscuist

chapter 5|20 pages

Collectivist Versus Individualist

chapter 6|27 pages

Protestant Versus Catholic

chapter 7|18 pages

Conclusions

chapter |16 pages

Interlude

part |1 pages

Part II The Sociophilosophy of Folk Psychology

chapter |2 pages

Introduction to Part II

chapter 8|29 pages

The Folk Psychology Debate

chapter 9|36 pages

Folk Psychology as a Social Institution