Brain and Soul: Critique of Materialism and an Essay on Contemporary Theories of the Soul

The book proposed to the reader belongs to the pen of an outstanding Russian philosopher and psychologist G.I. Chelpanov (1862-1936), whose fate and professional path were closely connected with the full drama of the history of Russia and the logic of the development of domestic psychology of the 20th century, inseparable from the movement of world psychological thought. This book presents a critical outline of some modern author"s exercises about the soul. G.I. Chelpanov justifies the independence of the subject of psychology, based on the principle of "empirical parallelism", formulated during the development of the ideas of V. Vundt.
The book is recommended for psychologists, philosophers, historians of science, as well as a wide range of readers interested in the problems of the development of psychological knowledge