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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Year: 2008, Volume: 43, Issue: 3, Pages: 605-625 |
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