{"title":"Consciousness Field Theory and Antihuman Psychology","authors":"Paul C. Mocombe","doi":"10.17265/2159-5313/2023.08.001","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":" Against behaviorism, humanism, and cognitive psychology, this work explores Mocombe’s antihuman psychology as a product of his consciousness field theory. The paper critically assesses Mocombe’s consciousness field theory within the larger body of contemporary ontological debates regarding the nature, origin, and constitution of consciousness, especially human consciousness, vis-à-vis their relations to the psychological theories of behaviorism, humanism, and cognitivism, concluding that consciousness field theory posits an alternative psychological theory of the mind, i.e., antihuman psychology, to behaviorist","PeriodicalId":378867,"journal":{"name":"Philosophy Study","volume":"22 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2023-08-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Philosophy Study","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.17265/2159-5313/2023.08.001","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Against behaviorism, humanism, and cognitive psychology, this work explores Mocombe’s antihuman psychology as a product of his consciousness field theory. The paper critically assesses Mocombe’s consciousness field theory within the larger body of contemporary ontological debates regarding the nature, origin, and constitution of consciousness, especially human consciousness, vis-à-vis their relations to the psychological theories of behaviorism, humanism, and cognitivism, concluding that consciousness field theory posits an alternative psychological theory of the mind, i.e., antihuman psychology, to behaviorist