Wundt, Avenarius, and Scientific Psychology A Debate at the Turn of the Twentieth Century /

• Main Author: Russo Krauss, Chiara (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Psychology.; Psychology, Experimental.; Psychology-Methodology.; Psychological measurement.; Cross-cultural psychology.; Metaphysics.; Neuropsychology.; History of Psychology.; Experimental Psychology.; Psychological Methods/Evaluation.; Cross Cultural Psychology.

This book reconstructs the rise and fall of Wilhelm Wundt's fortunes, focusing for the first time on the role of Richard Avenarius as catalyst for the so-called "positivist repudiation of Wundt." Krauss specifically looks at the progressive disavowal of Wundtian ideas in the world of...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1. Introduction
• Chapter 2. Richard Avenarius
• Chapter 3. Wilhelm Wundt and the Crisis in the Relationship with Avenarius
• Chapter 4. The Spread of the New Definition of Psychology
• Chapter 5. Wundt's Reaction.