Associate professor and faculty member of Seminary and University Academy,Department of psychology, Qom, Iran
Abstract
The main theme and purpose of this study is to explain the nature of philosophy of psychology. The author follows an analytic methodology through assessing the concept of philosophy and studying the instances of philosophy of. Research data are as under: according to the first approach philosophy of psychology is a semantic, ontological and epistemic assessment and is a moral attitude towards psychology. Based on the second approach, philosophy of psychology is a second order knowledge that assesses the conceptual and assertive axioms of psychology. It concludes that philosophy of psychology is different from philosophy of mind and philosophical anthropology, though they overlap each other in certain areas.