Psychology, Philosophy, and Cognitive Science Reflections On The History And Philosophy Of Experimental Psychology

Abstract

Abstract Psychology has been self-consciously trying to be a science for two hundred years, give or take fifty. In the meantime, it has developed a variety of laboratory techniques, collected much experimental data, shown some theoretical development, and undergone changes of opinion about whether its primary object of study is mind or behavior. Has it made its way to sciencehood? Some have thought psychology became scientific by freeing itself from philosophy near the end of the nineteenth century, while others make it wait for behaviorism and positivism. A few recent thinkers believe that psychology can remain scientific only by becoming something else: neuroscience, cognitive science, or those and more.

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