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Critical Analysis of Concepts of Psychological Science

Critical Analysis of Concepts of Psychological Science

Author(s): Stan Klein

Edition: 2

Copyright: 2018

Pages: 290

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Critical Analysis of Concepts of Psychological Science examines foundational questions in psychology related to the nature of the mind, consciousness, memory, selfhood, and human experience. The course critically evaluates assumptions within psychological science and explores how empirical research, philosophical analysis, and phenomenological perspectives contribute to understanding mental processes.

The material examines memory systems, the relationship between the brain and the self, personal identity, unconscious processes, and the subjective experience of dreaming. It emphasizes the importance of integrating cognitive science, neuroscience, and first-person experience to develop a more complete understanding of psychological phenomena.

Chapter 1: The Unplanned Obsolescence of Psychological Science and an Argument for Its Revival
Chapter 2: A Defense of Experiential Realism: The Need to Take Phenomenological Reality on Its Own Terms in the Study of the Mind
Chapter 3: What Are the Memory Systems of 1994?
Chapter 4: What Memory Is 
Chapter 5: The Self and Its Brain
Chapter 6: Sameness and the Self: Philosophical and Psychological Considerations
Chapter 7: Yes It Can: On the Functional Abilities of the Human Unconscious
Chapter 8: The Phenomenology of REM-Sleep Dreaming: The Contributions of Personal and Perspectival Ownership, Subjective Temporality and Episodic Memory

Stan Klein

Stan Klein, PhD is a professor of psychology at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), whose research focuses on the relationship between the self, memory, and consciousness. He earned his BA from Stanford University and his PhD from Harvard University. Before joining UCSB, he held academic positions at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas.

Dr. Klein’s research examines assumptions about human identity, memory, and conscious experience, with particular interest in how psychological and neuroscientific findings inform our understanding of the self. His work explores topics such as self-knowledge, autobiographical memory, personal identity, mental time travel, and the cognitive processes that shape human experience.

Critical Analysis of Concepts of Psychological Science examines foundational questions in psychology related to the nature of the mind, consciousness, memory, selfhood, and human experience. The course critically evaluates assumptions within psychological science and explores how empirical research, philosophical analysis, and phenomenological perspectives contribute to understanding mental processes.

The material examines memory systems, the relationship between the brain and the self, personal identity, unconscious processes, and the subjective experience of dreaming. It emphasizes the importance of integrating cognitive science, neuroscience, and first-person experience to develop a more complete understanding of psychological phenomena.

Chapter 1: The Unplanned Obsolescence of Psychological Science and an Argument for Its Revival
Chapter 2: A Defense of Experiential Realism: The Need to Take Phenomenological Reality on Its Own Terms in the Study of the Mind
Chapter 3: What Are the Memory Systems of 1994?
Chapter 4: What Memory Is 
Chapter 5: The Self and Its Brain
Chapter 6: Sameness and the Self: Philosophical and Psychological Considerations
Chapter 7: Yes It Can: On the Functional Abilities of the Human Unconscious
Chapter 8: The Phenomenology of REM-Sleep Dreaming: The Contributions of Personal and Perspectival Ownership, Subjective Temporality and Episodic Memory

Stan Klein
Stan Klein

Stan Klein, PhD is a professor of psychology at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), whose research focuses on the relationship between the self, memory, and consciousness. He earned his BA from Stanford University and his PhD from Harvard University. Before joining UCSB, he held academic positions at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas.

Dr. Klein’s research examines assumptions about human identity, memory, and conscious experience, with particular interest in how psychological and neuroscientific findings inform our understanding of the self. His work explores topics such as self-knowledge, autobiographical memory, personal identity, mental time travel, and the cognitive processes that shape human experience.