Psychological Knowledge

<p>Psychologists and philosophers have assumed that psychological knowledge is knowledge about and held by the individual mind. <em>Psychological Knowledge</em> challenges these views. It argues that bodies of psychological knowledge are social institutions like money or the monarchy and that mental states are social artefacts like coins or crowns.<br>Martin Kusch takes on arguments of alternative proposals shows what is wrong with them and demonstrates how his own social-philosophical approach constitutes an advance. We see that exists a substantial natural amount of philosophical theorising a body of work that tries to determine the nature and structure of folk psychology.<br>Examining the workings of constuctivism <em>Psychological Knowledge</em> is an invaluable introduction to the history of psychology and the recent philosophy of mind.</p>