Philosophic Foundations of Genetic Psychology and Gestalt Psychology

I. Structure of Genetic Psychology and Gestalt Psychology.- 1. History of European Genetic Psychology.- I. Phases of Genetic Psychology.- 1. The German Phase and Northern Phase.- 2. The French Phase.- 3. The Psychological Theory of Claparède.- II. Psychogenetic Method.- 2. Logic and Psychology.- I. Relationship Between Logic and Psychology.- II. Operational Logic.- 1. Basic Concepts.- 2. Elements.- 3. System.- 3. Phenomena of Perception. “Why Do Things Appear as They Do?”.- I. The Gestalt Theory of Perception.- General Conclusion.- A Note on the Set Theory.- II. The Genetic Theory of Perception.- 1. The Borderline Between Perception and Thinking.- 2. Partial Isomorphy between Perceptual Structures and Thought Structures.- 3. Is Perception Genetically Prior to Thinking?.- 4. Perception as Assimilation.- 5. Hypothesis of Centrations.- 6. Hypothesis of Strategies.- 4. Phenomena of Genetic Psychology (School of Geneva).- I. Conception of Nature.- Conclusion.- II. Conception of Space.- III. Conception of Time.- Conclusion.- Critical Remarks.- IV. Conception of Causality.- Critique.- V. Conception of Quality.- 1. Logical Conceptions.- Conclusion.- 2. Analytic and Synthetic Conceptions.- VI. Conception of Quantity.- Conclusion.- Critical Remarks.- VII. General Conclusion.- 5. Psychology of Thought Processes.- I. The Gestalt Theory of Thinking.- 1. The Concept or Gestalt.- 2. Principle of Prägnanz.- 3. Insight and Transposition Phenomena.- 4. Principle of Reorganization.- 5. Principle of direction.- 6. Einstellung and E-Effect.- 7. Productive and Reproductive Thinking.- 8. Hypothesis of Psychophysical Isomorphism.- 9. Pathological Thought and Gestalt Theory.- 10. Conclusion: Critique of Modern Behaviorism.- II. The Genetic Theory of Thinking.- 1. Operation and Interiorization.- 2. Hypothesis of Genetic Levels.- 3. Hypothesis of Strategies.- 4. Principle of Equilibrium.- 5. The Genetic Interpretation of Learning.- 6. Genetic Psychology and Psychoanalysis.- 7. Critique of the Genetic Theory of Thinking.- 6. Psychology of Thought Processes (continued).- I. Thought and Language.- II. Morphology of Thought Processes.- Types of Thought Processes.- (I) The imagist type.- (II) The conceptual type.- (III) The hypothetical type.- (IV) The speculative type.- The Levels of Thought Processes.- The Continuity of Thought Processes.- Conclusion.- II. Philosophic Foundations of Empirical Psychology.- 7. Analysis of Basic Concepts.- I. Configuration.- II. Abstraction.- 8. Methodological Framework of Psychology.- I. Critique of Genetic Psychology (School of Geneva).- II. Qualitative and Quantitative Methods.- III. Structure and Functions of Theories.- Concluding Note.- 9. Epistemological Framework of Psychology.- I. The Phenomena of Psychology.- II. Is Psychology Reducible to Physiology?.- Concluding Note.- 10. Prolegomenon to a Realistic Philosophy of Science.- I. Psychology as a Natural Science.- II. Psychology of Science: “Gestalt Epistemology” and “Genetic Epistemology”.- Gestalt Epistemology.- Genetic Epistemology.- Concluding Remarks.- III. Philosophy of Science as the Morphology of Science.- The Concept of Phenomenological Spectrum.- The Logical Structure of Science.- Realism and Positivism.- Conclusion.- General Bibliography.