Surf these sites: Aristotle -- De Anima [On the Soul]. One of the first western statements on psychology, and still influential. Full text on-line. Baldwin, James M. -- Mental Development in the Child and the Race. "Represents a pioneer effort to present a picture of the social nature of the self and the manner of its growth," by one of the founders of American psychology. Full text on-line. Berkeley, George -- A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge. An important work in the history of empiricism and idealism, and a string influence on David Hume. Full text on-line. Brentano, Franz -- Psychology from an Empirical Standpoint. An influential thinker on the philosophy of mind and the inventor of the concept of "intentiality." Chap. 1 on-line. Chalmers, David -- The Conscious Mind (Oxford Univ. Press, 1996). An interesting monograph on consciousness by a philosopher who believes that a materialistic reduction of consciousness is impossible. Chomsky, Noam -- Language and Mind (1968). Parts available on-line. Classics in the History of Psychology -- Many full texts available online. Cziko, Gary -- Without Miracles: Universal Selection Theory and the Second Darwinian Revolution (MIT Press, 1995). Argues for "universal Darwinism": "that a Darwinian mechanism is the only way to account for any kind of systematic fitness, in any domain". Gibson, James J. -- Purple Perils. A collection of Gibson''s private notes for seminars from 1954 to 1979, available on-line. Kaiser, Peter K. -- Joy of Visual Perception. An on-line book on the anatomy & physiology of vision, and on visual psychophysics. Pinker, Steven -- How the Mind Works (Norton, 1998). A recent general book on cognitive science for the layman. A little megalomaniac, perhaps, but entertainingly written and full of interesting and useful information. St. Augustine of Hippo -- A Treatise on the Soul and its Origin. Theological psychology by one of the greatest Christian thinkers. Full text on-line.
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