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WUNDT, WILHELM MAX (1832— )

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WUNDT, WILHELM MAX (1832— ) , See also:German physiologist and philosopher, was See also:born on the 16th of See also:August 1832 at Neckarau, in See also:Baden. He studied See also:medicine at See also:Tubingen, See also:Heidelberg and See also:Berlin, and in 1857 began to lecture at Heidelberg. In 1864 he became assistant See also:professor there, and in 1866 was chosen to represent Heidelberg in the Baden Chamber, but soon resigned. In 1894 he was elected See also:regular professor of See also:philosophy at See also:Zurich, and in the following See also:year was called to the corresponding See also:chair at See also:Leipzig, where he founded an See also:Institute for Experimental See also:Psychology, the precursor of many similar institutes. The See also:list of Wundt's See also:works is See also:long and comprehensive, including See also:physiology, psychology, See also:logic and See also:ethics. His earlier works See also:deal chiefly with physiology, though often in See also:close connexion with psychology, as in the Vorlesungen fiber See also:die Menschen- and Tierseele (1863; 4th ed., 1906; trans. See also:Creighton and Titchener, 1896), Lehrbuch der Physiologic See also:des Menschen (1865; 4th ed., 1878), and Grundziige der physiologischen Psychologie (1874; 6th ed., 3 vols., 1908). He published an important See also:work on Logik (188o—1883; 3rd ed., 1906—1907), and this was followed in 1886 by his Ethik (3rd ed., 1903). According to Wundt, the straight road to ethics lies through ethnic psychology, whose especial business it is to consider the See also:history of See also:custom and of ethical ideas from the psychological standpoint. We must look for ethics to See also:supply the corner-See also:stone of See also:metaphysics, and psychology is a necessary propaedeutic. The See also:System der Philosophic (1899; 3rd ed., 1907) contained the results of Wundt's work up to that date, both in the domain of See also:science and in the more strictly philosophic See also:field. The metaphysical or ontological See also:part of psychology is in Wundt's view the actual part, and with this the science of nature and the science of mind are to be brought into relation, and thus constituted as far as possible philosophical sciences.

In 1892 Wundt published Hypnotismus and See also:

Suggestion. Subsequent important works are the Grundriss der Psychologie (1896; 8th ed., 1907; trans. See also:Judd, 3rd ed., 1907); VOlkerpsychologie (1900-1906); Einleitung in die Philos. (1901; 4th ed., 1906). Two other works, containing accounts of the work of himself and his pupils, are Philosophische Studien (1883-1902) and Psychologische Studien (1905 foll.).

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