Introduction
Between 1820 and 1860, roughly from the decade following the end of the War of 1812 until the eve of theCivil War, textbooks with the titles of Intellectual Philosophy, Mental Philosophy, or Psychology were written by professors in American colleges to introduce their students to the study of the human mind. Whatever the title, the study of mental philosophy was asignificant part of the education of college juniors and seniors in the nineteenth century. The authors of the textbooks modified the philosophies of mind inherited from the British intellectual tradition to accord with the conclusions they reached from examinations of their own minds.
The appearance of textbooks written to introduce the study of mind to college undergraduates and students in academies (secondary schools) was a departure from the practice of the colonial and early federal periods in the United States during which students read the philosophical treatises of English and Scottish authors, most...
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Fuchs, A.H. (2012). American Mental Philosophy (1820–1860), History of. In: Rieber, R.W. (eds) Encyclopedia of the History of Psychological Theories. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-0463-8_25
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