Elements of psychology / by George Croom Robertson ; edited from notes of lectures delivered at the college, 1870-1892, by C.A. Foley Rhys Davids.

  • Robertson, George Croom, 1842-1892.
Date:
1896
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Credit: Elements of psychology / by George Croom Robertson ; edited from notes of lectures delivered at the college, 1870-1892, by C.A. Foley Rhys Davids. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    THE PLACE OF PSYCHOLOGY AMONG THE SCIENCES. Scheme of Fundamental Sciences. Objective. Subjective. [Logic] 1. Mathematics. Psychology. 2. Physics. 3. Chemistry. 4. Biology. 5. Psychology 6. Sociology. Why, and in what sense, does Psychology occupy, and alone occupy, this second column ? Mind as Life. What is it to have life? Take a tree, and this piece of chalk. The one deports itself in a way very different from the other; it grows, respires, moves. What is it to have Hindi Take a tree and a dog or a man. Both the latter in one respect will deport themselves very differently from the former. Strike each, and see. What is it to be sociall To act in a way very different from beings who are unsocial. Under such a purely external aspect, that of deportment, behaviour, outward manifestation, we can regard Mind. I do not say we ought to do so. Now our left-hand column is concerned Regulative doctrines or disci- \ Logic, plines {not sciences) dependent upon > jEsthetics. Psychology. ‘ Ethics.