Naturalistic Methodology in an Emerging Scientific Psychology: Lotze and Fechner in the Balance

Abstract. The development of a methodologically naturalistic approach to physiological and experimental psychology in the nineteenth century was not primarily driven by a naturalistic agenda. The work of R. Hermann Lotze and G. T. Fechner help to illustrate this claim. I examine a selected set of ce...

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Main Author: McDonald, Patrick (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Wiley-Blackwell 2008
In: Zygon
Year: 2008, Volume: 43, Issue: 3, Pages: 605-625
Further subjects:B Neo-Kantianism
B R. Hermann Lotze
B spatial perception
B physiological psychology
B Ernst Mach
B Psychophysics
B Methodological Naturalism
B local signs
B G. T. Fechner
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