'Faculty psychology' views the mind as a collection of separate modules or faculties assigned to various mental tasks. The view is explicit in the psychological writings of the medieval scholastic theologians, such as
Thomas Aquinas.
It is also present, though more implicitly, in
Franz Joseph Gall's formulation of
phrenology, the now-disreputable practice of measuring personality traits by measuring bumps on one's head.
However, faculty psychology has been revived in
Jerry Fodor's concept of
modularity of mind, the supposition that different modules manage sensory input and other mental functions.
External links
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Faculty Psychology and Mental Discipline - A Brief Overview
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Early Faculty Psychology
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