A Tale of Two Once-Related Disciplines

Abstract

Abstract Although Wilhelm Wundt has been praised worldwide for being one of the central figures in the establishment of scientific psychology, his voluminous philosophical system (comprising logic, ethics, and metaphysics) has not received the same attention in the literature. In his attempt to reform German philosophy as a whole, Wundt proposed a system of ‘scientific philosophy’, which was influential at the end of the nineteenth century, inside and outside Germany. Beginning in 1876, Mind was one of the many philosophical journals that reflected the impact of Wundt’s work. The goal of this paper is to explore the conception and development of Wundt’s scientific philosophy as reflected in Mind between 1876 and 1900. We will see that, at least in its first decades, Mind represented a very broad conception of philosophy, in which psychology and other empirical sciences played an important role.

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