The Philosophy and Education Program at Teachers College, Columbia University is pleased to announce the creation of a new doctoral field in Philosophical Psychology. A list of the texts can be found below.

Ancient, modern, and contemporary thinkers are included on the list, and numerous subfields like developmental psychology, humanistic psychology, and psychoanalytic theory are represented. Some of the field’s key themes are moral education, women’s perspectives, and the links between the social and the psychological.

Students who specialize in Philosophical Psychology will gain a deepened appreciation of the nature of human development across the lifespan, the ways in which language and mind interact, and the omnipresent impact of unconscious mental processes on individual and collective life.

The new field in Philosophical Psychology was prepared with assistance from Dr. Rory Varrato, a recent graduate of both the Philosophy and Education Program at Teachers College and the Scholars Program at the Western New England Institute for Psychoanalysis.

Philosophical Psychology

1. Elizabeth Anscombe, Intention
2. Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
3. John Dewey, Human Nature and Conduct
4. Erik Erikson, Childhood and Society
5. Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams
6. Erich Fromm, Beyond the Chains of Illusion
7. Carol Gilligan, In a Different Voice: Psychological Theory and Women’s Development
8. David Hume, Treatise on Human Nature
9. William James, Talks to Teachers on Psychology and to Students on Some of Life’s Ideals
10. Lawrence Kohlberg, The Philosophy of Moral Development
11. Jean Piaget, The Moral Judgment of the Child
12. Carl Rogers, On Becoming a Person
13. Lev Vygotsky, Mind in Society
14. Ludwig Wittgenstein, Remarks on the Philosophy of Psychology, Volumes I and II.