PHILOSOPHICAL PSYCHOLOGY

the department of psychology which analyzes the philosophical dilemmas pertaining to the discipline and the philosophical presumptions which underlie its theories and techniques. It approaches psychology from a broad point of view informed by an insight of the history of ideas, the philosophy of science, epistemology, metaphysics, ethics, and the devices of formal philosophical study. Philosophical psychologists are likely to focus on the larger dilemmas stemming from the region instead of on model formation and collecting information.