Hermann Lotze’s Concept of Function: Its Kantian Origin and Its Impact on Evolutionism in the United States

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1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Contributors viii
4. Foreword 1
5. Preface 4
6. Acknowledgments 7
7. Prologue 8
8. Part I: The Origins of Developmental Psychology
9. The Evolution of the Concept of Development in the History of Psychology 13
10. Pre-Evolutionary Conceptions of Imitation 27
11. The Importance of Rousseau's Developmental Thinking for Child Psychology 55
12. The Origin of the Diary Method in Developmental Psychology 63
13. The Concept of Development in Herder’s Philosophical Anthropology 75
14. The Relationship Between Nature and Society in Early Conceptualizations of Developmental Psychology 89
15. Victor de l’Aveyron and the Relativist-Essentialist Controversy 101
16. The Concept of Development and the Genetic Method of C.G. Carus 117
17. Charles Darwin’s Unpublished “Diary of an Infant”: An Early Phase in his Psychological Work 127
18. Hermann Lotze’s Concept of Function: Its Kantian Origin and Its Impact on Evolutionism in the United States 147
19. Experimental Approaches to Developmental Psychology before William Preyer 157
20. Part II: William T. Preyer – His Time, His Work, and His Influence
21. Preyer’s Road to Child Psychology 177
22. Cognitive Developmental Psychology Before Preyer: Biographical and Educational Records 187
23. The Relationship Between Preyer’s Concept of Psychogenesis and his Views of Darwin’s Theory of Evolution 209
24. Preyer as a Pragmatic Methodologist 219
25. Preyer and the German School Reform Movement 231
26. Darwinism and the Emergence of Developmental Psychology 245
27. Evolutionary Thought and the Doctrine of Ancestral Immanence 267
28. William Preyer’s Contributions to the Scientific Study of Hypnosis in Germany 275
29. Part III: Methodological and Theoretical Approaches to Child Development
30. Linguistics and Psychology in Nineteenth-Century German Science 283
31. William James’ Theory of Mental Evolution: The Religious and Moral Foundations of a Psychological Science 301
32. The Problem of Imitation and Explanatory Models in Early Developmental Psychology 319
33. The Application of Pavlovian Conditioning Procedures in Child and Developmental Psychology 329
34. The Role of Developmental Concepts in the History of Gestalt Theory: The Work of Kurt Koffka 341
35. The Role of Film in John B.Watson’s Developmental Research Program: Intellectual, Disciplinary, and Social Influences 359
36. Martha Muchow: A Tribute to a Pioneer in Environmental Child Psychology 367
37. The Idea of Development in the Writings of Eino Kaila 375
38. Epilogue 389
39. About the Authors 393
40. Index 401
41. Backmatter 401