A History of the Association Psychology

The volume under notice, by the well-known professor of Princeton University, contains a great deal of matter which cannot fail to be useful to the student, and it is presented in a serviceable form. It is not, however, as the title would lead us to expect, a history of the movement in mental science which followed the adoption of the empirical principles of Hume and explained knowledge by the laws of association,—a theory often described by its critics as psychological atomism. It is rather an attempt to show that an idea which has no history is to be discovered in all the historical systems of philosophy. It begins with the ancient philosophy of Greece and ends with an account of some of the psychological experiments now being conducted in college laboratories and reported in current journals.A History of the Association Psychology.By Prof. H. C. Warren. Pp. x + 328 + 1 chart. (London: Constable and Co., Ltd., 1921.) 16s.