Method in Philosophical Psychology (From the Banal to the Bizarre)

In what follows, I shall be presenting some of my ideas about how I want to approach philosophical psychology. My hope is, in effect, to sketch a whole system; this is quite an undertaking, and I hope that you will bear with me if in discharging it I occupy a little more of your time than is becoming in holders of my august office. While I am sure that you will be able to detect some affinities between my ideas and ideas to be found in recent philosophy, I propose to leave such comparisons to you. Though at certain points I have had my eye on recent discussions, the main influences on this part of my work have lain in the past, particularly in Aristotle, Hume and Kant. I have the feeling that between them these philosophers have written a great deal of the story, though perhaps not always in the most legible of hands.