In your judgment, what aspects of philosophy hindered the development of psychology as a science? I think that the major glitch in the limitations to developments in psychology was due to a mechanistic approach. Experiments were limited to certain subjects and until different theories were developed, everything was explained simply based on theories of different scientists.
You have had one or more courses in psychology. Are there any contemporary theories or approaches to psychology that you can think of that may be partially or wholly mechanistic in nature? (There’s a little more on the mechanistic spirit in ch. 3 on page 72.) I think that Physics could be the one thing that is a mechanistic approach to nature. Things such as Newton’s law of gravity were a new beggining in the way that things were perceived in space. T
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