Psychology of Science: A Reconnaissance [Paperback]

Abraham Harold Maslow (Author), Arthur G. Wirth (Foreword)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 1969

A fascinating glimpse of what science and medicine might be like if we could work to "re-humanize" them. Maslow contrasts humanistic science with value-free, orthodox science, and offers a new knowledge paradigm to replace classical "scientific objectivity". This eBook edition contains the complete 168 page text of the original 1966 hardcover edition. ***

--This text refers to the Kindle Edition edition.

Product Details

• Paperback: 168 pages
• Publisher: Gateway Editions; 1st edition (December 1969)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0895269724
• ISBN-13: 978-0895269720
• Product Dimensions: 7.8 x 5.1 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #243,300 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Challenging the Sacred Cows of Science, January 1, 2009

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Larry Mullins "Larry Mullins" (St. Augustine, Florida) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Psychology of Science: A Reconnaissance (Paperback)

A neglected masterpiece by Abraham Maslow, published the year before his death. Dr. Maslow challenges the sacred cows of science, insisting that science should not restrict its juristiction to an area limited by Aristotelian decree. In this important work Dr. Maslow declares that science should not leave values solely to the religionists. He goes so far as to advocate a science of values. Far ahead of its time, Maslow points out in this book that mechanistic science is but an extension of mechanistic physics, yet "The recent evolution of science [quantum physics] signifies a general change in the intellectual structure which well may be set beside the great revolution in human thought." Dr. Maslow accurately demonstrates that mechanistic science is not so much incorrect as it is too circumscribed and narrow to serve as a general or comprehensive philosophy to address human behavior. A hard to find book, but of extreme importance, now available in a new edition as a Kindle book from Amazon. Stuff for 21st century thinking, metathinking. Search for full title, "The Psychology of Science: a Reconnaissance." Also see Maslow's "Religions, Values, and Peak Experiences."