PSYC 3125 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Wilhelm Dilthey, Edmund Husserl, Noumenon
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Chapter 3 subject matter, methods and the makig. 2 of psy(cid:272)hology"s (cid:271)iggest (cid:272)halle(cid:374)ges (cid:449)ere: delineate and define subject matter, develop an appropriate method for the systematic study of this subject matter. For new psychologists, meant treating psychology as a natural science. Some thought we could not study it scientifically. Late 1800s enough researchers thought we could study psychology scientifically. Shift was result of going from consciousness to observable behaviour. Descartes position was influential in resituating human nature as part of natural rather than divine order without completely breaking from religion. Experience a series of appearances that are created by an actively perceiving mind. Important because implies that the mind is active, and the activities of the mind might become important to study. Mind has 12 categories according to which it automatically organizes phenomena. World isnt causal or operates to laws, but mind set up to experience world that way.
