What are the differences between philosophy and psychology?
2007-12-08 10:07:10 · 9 answers · asked by Steven M 3 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Psychology is a science, the science of human behavior. It can be observed, studied and measured. We can draw scientific conclusions about it.
Philosophy, on the other hand, is pre-science. It underlies science and draws the rules by which we can draw scientific conclusions.
2007-12-08 10:59:39 · answer #1 · answered by Todd 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
.Think of as a Chinese box. Psychology contextualize human behavior. Philosophy contextualizes Psychology.and all sciences. Psychology is a branch of science. Philosophy studies how things are know and understood generally Since all science use symbols and signs. Philosophy explores the relationship among Man, Language, and the World. Philosophy is the study of intelligibility in general.
2007-12-08 11:12:47 · answer #2 · answered by Yahoo Man 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Psychology was actually born of Philosophy. It has only been around for close to 130 years. Wundt (Germany) and James (United States) are considered to be the fathers of Psychology. Essentially, they took some of the speculations of Philosophy directly related to human thought/the brain and sought to quantify them. Hopefully you can draw the difference from what I just explained.
Psychology has expanded quite a bit since then. And hopefully will continue to. It is still a very young science but has a done a tremendous amount of good in our understanding of brain functioning and human behavior.
2007-12-08 10:46:33 · answer #3 · answered by Trina™ 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Psychology is based (for the most part) on experimental evidence. Philosophy is really more like part of the humanities, where it's all about interpretations and ways of seeing things.
2007-12-08 10:15:52 · answer #4 · answered by Surely Funke 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Philosophy studies thoughts and psychology studies the behavior of thoughts.
2007-12-08 11:40:57 · answer #5 · answered by hmmmm 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Psychology is one of the six common disciplines of philosophy, they are difficult to separate as one is part of the whole of the other. Psychology is a specific philosophy essentially one who's focus is the human mind which is integral to human life and the study of it.
2016-05-22 05:27:05 · answer #6 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have always believed that psychology ought to be a branch of philosophy. It involves two parts of philosophy combined to create human behavior: the things we believe (metaphysics) and the way in which we come to believe them (epistemology.) Psychologists do very well at their science--it is one of the most complete and factual of all human sciences. But a metaphysicist or an epistemologist could do equally well, I suspect.
2007-12-08 10:30:03 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Philosophy means "love of knowlege"; it is an attemp to explain the world and how it relates to an individual.
Psychology claims that "everyone has a problem and knows it but refuses to seek help".
Probably no group has ever done more harm to humanity than psychologists...
2007-12-08 10:38:08 · answer #8 · answered by Nothingusefullearnedinschool 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
psychology is how the mind works.
2007-12-08 10:14:37 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋