Rohin Posted April 4, 2020 Share Posted April 4, 2020 I am writing a book on the subject of Psychology. Working title is - Reinventing Psychology Using Objectivism : For Powering the Motor of Human Mind. I have completed draft of most chapters. Here is the detailed table of contents -------- REINVENTING PSYCHOLOGY USING OBJECTIVISM POWERING THE MOTOR OF HUMAN MIND [COVER - Bike inside brain. Three roads to study, experiment, and skyscraper. (Representing academic, applied, and technological aspect of sciences)] PART 1: BASIC TEMPLATE CHAPTER 1 – THEME How so far mainstream Psychology has been focused on unhealthy instead of healthy. On therapy instead of production. CHAPTER 2 – HUMANS AND REALITY Conceptual faculty and its role in survival and flourishing. Different aspects of reality - Reality Around Us: Material Reality & Social Reality Reality Of Us: Physiological Reality demonstrating how Material and Social Reality Impact Us Introduction to Reality Inside us by differentiating it from External Reality of materials, society, and physiology. CHAPTER 3 – REALITY INSIDE US Purpose of human mind and its general working through Concept Formation / Classification, Causal Connections, Principles, and their Application. PART 2: FOUNDATION CHAPTER 4 – PSYCHOLOGICAL REALITY – MEMORIES, PERCEPTS, CONCEPTS, GENERALIZATIONS – Their details and diagrammatic representation. CHAPTER 5 – PSYCHOLOGICAL REALITY – NEEDS, VALUES, AND EMOTIONS – Their details and diagrammatic representation. CHAPTER 6 – PSYCHOLOGICAL REALITY – METHODS their diagrammatic representation, and their connections to concepts, principles, practice, emotions, introspection, and motivation. WILL and how its different from Method. CHAPTER 7 – Connecting concepts like Methods and Emotions to standard structure of Brain and Neurons. CHAPTER 8 – Evolution of Psychology from Luigi Galvani, Paul Broca, Carl Wernicke, William James, to Freud, Abraham Maslow, James Gibson, and maybe beyond. Specifically, too much mainstream focus on therapy rather than methods. And also extract positive aspects. PORTION PLANNED BEFORE, BUT NOW SCOPED OUT PART 4: EXPLORING VARIOUS METHODS BASED ON COMPLEXITY CHAPTER 9 – SIMPLE METHODS Bathing, Moving medium loads etc. CHAPTER 10 – INTERMEDIATE METHODS Driving to work, Cooking at home etc. CHAPTER 11 – PROFESSIONAL METHODS Plumbing, Carpentry, Production Grade Programming CHAPTER 12 – VARIATIONS AND SIMILARITIES IN RANGE OF COMPLEXITY OF METHODS PART 5: EXPLORING VARIOUS METHODS BASED ON MENTAL AND PHYSICAL COMPOSITION CHAPTER 13 – ACADEMIC AND APPLIED METHODS Academic Physics like Discovery of Gravity and Applied Physics like Rocket Models CHAPTER 14 – ENGINEERING AND PRODUCTION METHODS Designing space rockets or Cars, running projects and factories. CHAPTER 15 – ARTISTIC AND UTILITARIAN METHODS Acting or writing screenplay. Carpentry and Pluming. Emotional awareness as variant. CHAPTER 16 – VARIATIONS AND SIMILARITIES IN RANGE OF MENTAL AND PHYSICAL METHODS OPTIONAL PART 6: EXPLORING IMPACT OF PSYCHOLOGY IN CULTURE Essence of Psychology in philosophies like a.)Liberterianism b.)Totalitarian social movements like Communism, Salafist Islam, Some strains of Christianity c.) Environmentalism d.) Open Source Movement e.) Available data on Objectivist movement etc. (Part 4-5 may be combined and this made as part 5) -------- I am also attaching snippets of draft. I will reach out to specialists on feedback related to Grammar and Vocabulary. Here, can you please give general feedback like completeness of content and accuracy of ideas. Reinventing-Psychology-Snippets.pdf Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rohin Posted April 4, 2020 Author Share Posted April 4, 2020 On demand basis, I can also share chapters 2-6 for feedback Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rohin Posted April 10, 2020 Author Share Posted April 10, 2020 I got couple of private responses to my post. Applying the feedback, I will add another chapter. In this chapter I will explain concept formation, generalization, principle formation, and application for concepts of consciousness. In the process explaining fallacies like misclassification of units, wrong connection of concepts etc. This will serve dual purpose. One, it will illuminate epistemological aspects of psychology. Secondly, it will illuminate concepts of consciousness like feeling, thinking, knowledge, methods etc. Plus I will widen the scope of Evolution of Psychology to more modern intellectuals. Further, if we look at the history of philosophical ideas, we realize that application of these ideas to specific subjects has been a more potent force in spreading the ideas, than directly applying philosophical ideas to specific situations. For example, during Renaissance, ideas of Aristotle were applied to particular social situations like religious persecution (by Voltaire) or validating religious ideas(by Aquinas). However, its only when the philosophical ideas were used to form specific subjects like science (by Newton, Galileo etc.), or politics(by Locke and Founding Fathers), that the philosophy transmitted much more accurately and quickly to the man in the street. So even as we try to apply philosophical ideas to specific situations like COVID-19 crisis and political events, I think contributing to this thread will be a great value-add in long term. Thanks and Best Regards, – Rohin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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