The concept of organism and the concept of mind

The first section reviews the traditional debate between mechanism and organicism in the accounts of the ‘life sciences’, including psychology, and identifies a neglected strand in the organicist tradition tracing to Hegel, Goethe, and others. The second section reviews certain standard arguments ag...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Main Author: McDonough, Richard
Format: Article
Language:English
English
Published: Sage Publications 1997
Online Access:http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/50983/1/50983.pdf
http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/50983/7/50983.pdf
http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/50983/
http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0959354397075001#
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
id my.upm.eprints.50983
record_format eprints
spelling my.upm.eprints.509832024-10-15T06:30:54Z http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/50983/ The concept of organism and the concept of mind McDonough, Richard The first section reviews the traditional debate between mechanism and organicism in the accounts of the ‘life sciences’, including psychology, and identifies a neglected strand in the organicist tradition tracing to Hegel, Goethe, and others. The second section reviews certain standard arguments against organicism. The third section sketches the notion of an organism as a certain kind of relational logical system. The fourth section develops the central argument of the paper, namely the argument that an organism, so understood, cannot, in principle, be explained mechanically. The fifth section applies the results of this argument to mental and linguistic phenomena. The sixth section sketches the shape of an organic science of psychology. Sage Publications 1997 Article PeerReviewed text en http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/50983/1/50983.pdf text en http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/50983/7/50983.pdf McDonough, Richard (1997) The concept of organism and the concept of mind. Theory & Psychology, 7 (5). pp. 579-604. ISSN 0959-3543 http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0959354397075001# 10.1177/0959354397075001
institution Universiti Putra Malaysia
building UPM Library
collection Institutional Repository
continent Asia
country Malaysia
content_provider Universiti Putra Malaysia
content_source UPM Institutional Repository
url_provider http://psasir.upm.edu.my/
language English
English
description The first section reviews the traditional debate between mechanism and organicism in the accounts of the ‘life sciences’, including psychology, and identifies a neglected strand in the organicist tradition tracing to Hegel, Goethe, and others. The second section reviews certain standard arguments against organicism. The third section sketches the notion of an organism as a certain kind of relational logical system. The fourth section develops the central argument of the paper, namely the argument that an organism, so understood, cannot, in principle, be explained mechanically. The fifth section applies the results of this argument to mental and linguistic phenomena. The sixth section sketches the shape of an organic science of psychology.
format Article
author McDonough, Richard
spellingShingle McDonough, Richard
The concept of organism and the concept of mind
author_facet McDonough, Richard
author_sort McDonough, Richard
title The concept of organism and the concept of mind
title_short The concept of organism and the concept of mind
title_full The concept of organism and the concept of mind
title_fullStr The concept of organism and the concept of mind
title_full_unstemmed The concept of organism and the concept of mind
title_sort concept of organism and the concept of mind
publisher Sage Publications
publishDate 1997
url http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/50983/1/50983.pdf
http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/50983/7/50983.pdf
http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/50983/
http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0959354397075001#
_version_ 1814054566530908160
score 13.211869