This volume brings to the attention of contemporary readers a
tradition of psychological thought that has received little
attention over the last century. Psychology's history has been
unimaginatively presented as a fight between behaviorists and
mentalists. A third alternative, the New Realism, which cuts
through that dichotomy, has been lost.
"The New Realism" was indeed once new. This volume provides a
glimpse of how this school of thought attempted to redefine the
notion of mental processes, including consciousness, in
psychological theorizing. Holt's rejected the nativity of
iconoclastic Watsonian behaviorists, and thus the New Realism was
thoughtful in ways that behaviorist social engineering was not. The
implications of these innovations in psychological theorizing are
traced from the beginning of the twentieth century to the
contemporary period. The contributors provide these intellectual
links, along with efforts to look at the relatedness of the human
organism and its world. At their beginning, these ideas are
embedded in a reverence for William James's work, particularly his
later Radical Empiricism. In contemporary psychology, this legacy
has given us the framework of ecological psychology as we know it
today, and provides the basis for several modern critiques of
cognitive psychology.
The present volume opens the door for future historical
inquiries. This is an exemplary addition to the series on the
History of Psychological Ideas.
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