An Examination of the Latest Defences of Dr. Hickok's Rational Psychology. Reprinted from the 'American Presbyterian and Theological Review' for July, 1863 [Defenses]

28 pp. Printed wrappers. Rational psychology was a "metaphysical discipline that attempted to determine the nature of the human soul by a priori reasoning. In Christian Wolff's division of metaphysics, rational psychology was one of three disciplines included under the heading of "special metaphysics" (the others being rational cosmology and rational theology). Immanuel Kant, in his Critique of Pure Reason, criticized the pretensions of rational psychology." (Encyclopedia Britannica) This work argues against the concepts put forth by Laurens P. Hickok in his 1849 work Rational Psychology.