The Philosophy Of Human Nature

Under The Stimulus Of A Promised Professorship In A Medical School At Transylvania That Never Became A Reality, Buchanan Compiled A Series Of Lectures Elucidating His Views On Physiological Psychology. These He Published In 1812 As This Book, A Work That Is Unquestionably The Most Original American Contribution To Psychology Before William James. Among Many Original Contributions, Buchanan Seems To Have Been The First To Articulate The Law Of Exercise Usually Attributed To Thomas Brown. Buchanan Attempted To Construct A Materialist Monism. Ultimately To Become The Implicit Metaphysical Substructure Of Medicine, Psychiatry, And Psychology -- Years Before Johannes Mller, Griesinger, And Virchow. Woodbridge Riley Called Buchanan The Earliest Native Physiological Psychologist.