When doing reserach on the future of psychology, I haven't found good arguments that psychology will eventuall return to philosophy from which it came..Any comments on this? Thanx for your time!!

-- Sarah Restrepo (smag1385@aol.com), February 21, 2002

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This is not quite what you asked about, but you might find the book, The Science of the Mind: 2001 and Beyond, R. L. Solso and D. W. Massaro (Eds.) New York: Oxford University Press, 1995, useful. Begun as a pre-millenium project, the contributors tried to project the future of psychology.

I will venture my opinions (1) that "psychology" will NOT revert to philosophy, (2) that "psychology" will become only professional psychology (clinical, industrial-organizational, etc.) and (3)that foundational, fundamental, basic scholarly research in psychology will be done in such disciplines as behavioral science, behavioral neuroscience, cognitive science, and, to choose a recent example (APA Monitor, January 2002, p. 40), "social cognitive neuroscience."

-- Roger K. Thomas (rkthomas@uga.edu), February 21, 2002.

Sarah.....since psychology is the study of the PSYCHE, that astonishingly complex and profoundly fascinating essence of being human, you can rest assured that it is not an anachronism, and that the great minds of tomorrow will discover a vast array of new phenomena that are beyond the limited capacity for understanding which we possess today.

Nice thought, isn't it? :-)

-- visualize me (visualizeme@webtv.net), February 22, 2002.

As one of the folks who coined the term, "social cognitive neuroscience" I hope increased interest in crossing the neural and social science levels only increases the opportunity for philosophy to shape the kinds of questions we can ask about the mind. My own work is constantly influenced by the writings of Heidegger, Nietzsche, Aristotle, & Bruce Wilshire.

-- Matthew Lieberman (lieber@ucla.edu), April 09, 2002.