It’s a scandal that psychology today is a science without a subject!
In the 19th century, positivism and materialism left the new science of psychology dis-spirited. In the 1920’s psychology surrendered its soul to behaviorism. In the 1950’s it gave up consciousness when cognitive science found no ghost in the machine. Since the 1980’s it has lost its mind to neuroscience. Can there be a psychology without a psyche?
We trace the
history of the mind-body problem from René Descartes to 21st-century debates in the Philosophy of Mind.