Sioux Falls Feminists endorse The Great Ideas of Psychology
for a thorough review of psychology's history
and the classical ideas it developed.

The Great Ideas of Psychology
Lectures by Professor Daniel N. Robinson

The Great Ideas of Psychology (1997) - 48 lectures, 24 hours
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If you've ever wanted to delve more deeply into the mysteries of human emotion, perception, and cognition, and of why we do what we do, this course offers a superb place to start. As you hear these lectures, you hear the entire history of psychology unfold. And you learn that the subject most of us today associate with names like Sigmund Freud, Carl Jung, and B. F. Skinner really began thousands of years earlier.

In the hands of Professor Daniel N. Robinson, this course roams far and wide, encompassing ideas, speculations, and point-blank moral questions that might just dismantle and rebuild everything you once thought you knew about psychology.

Witness the Debate over Psychology's Very Existence

In fact, you not only learn what psychology is, but even if it is, as Professor Robinson discusses the constantly shifting debate over the nature of psychology itself.

You see one school of thought after another enter the fray, trying to determine how this strange thing called the human "mind" is to be understood, studied, and treated:

• Are we an entity that simply perceives an external world and piles one experience upon another in order to learn?
• Could such a process even happen without an intervening rationality to make sense of it all?
• Or is "mind" itself merely an unobservable illusion, leaving the science of psychology with little more to study than the actual physical realities of body and brain?

It's a debate that has raged for centuries, and to take this course is to see the question and its implications with a new clarity.

Professor Daniel N. Robinson is Distinguished Professor Emeritus at Georgetown University and a member of the philosophy faculty at Oxford University. He has also taught at other universities, including Columbia and Princeton. Among the more than 40 distinguished books to his credit is An Intellectual History of Psychology. The former president of two divisions of the American Psychological Association, he was honored with the Lifetime Achievement Award from its History of Psychology division.

48 Lectures - 30 minutes each

The Great Ideas of Psychology
Lectures by Professor Daniel N. Robinson

Sioux Falls Feminists endorse The Great Ideas of Psychology
for a thorough review of psychology's history
and the classical ideas it developed.