Skip to main content

Thank you for visiting nature.com. You are using a browser version with limited support for CSS. To obtain the best experience, we recommend you use a more up to date browser (or turn off compatibility mode in Internet Explorer). In the meantime, to ensure continued support, we are displaying the site without styles and JavaScript.

  • Book Review
  • Published:

The Naturalist Outlook in Psychology

Abstract

THE title of this book is significant, indicating, as it does, that the author proposes a return from all the sterile systems of psychology that derive from the Cartesian separation of mind and body to the naturalistic outlook of Aristotle. He is in good company, and one of an increasing band of students of the biological sciences who, whether philosophically minded or not, are already upon the same road.

The Natural History of Mind

By A. D. Ritchie. (Tarner Lectures delivered in Trinity College, Cambridge, 1935.) Pp. viii + 286. (London, New York and Toronto: Longmans, Green and Co., Ltd., 1936.) 15s. net.

This is a preview of subscription content, access via your institution

Access options

Buy this article

Prices may be subject to local taxes which are calculated during checkout

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Cite this article

The Naturalist Outlook in Psychology. Nature 138, 618–619 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/138618a0

Download citation

  • Issue Date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/138618a0

Search

Quick links

Nature Briefing

Sign up for the Nature Briefing newsletter — what matters in science, free to your inbox daily.

Get the most important science stories of the day, free in your inbox. Sign up for Nature Briefing