Aristotelian-Thomistic Teleological Behavioral Psychology Reconstruction

Abstract

The rudimentary concept of the trading zone is taken from Robert Kugelmann in his pivotal historical study of psychology, NeoScholasticism and Catholicism: Contested Boundaries. Kugelmann is a psychologist and researcher at the University of Dallas. He also has spent much his research and publishing on the contested boundaries between scientific psychology and neoscholastic rational psychology. Using Kugelmann’s historical study of Catholic psychology and the search for boundaries with empirical psychology, I will divide the quest into three periods: (1) Period One: 1879–1950, (2) Period Two: 1950 to 2000, and (3) Period Three: the present pursuit of the Thomistic behavioral option and neuropsychology ascendancy.