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Wilhelm Wundt

German physician, physiologist, philosopher and professor (1832-1920)

Wilhelm Maximilian Wundt(16 August 1832 – 31 August 1920) was a Germanphysician,physiologist,philosopher,and professor, known today as one of the founding figures of modernpsychology.

Wilhelm Wundt, 1902

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Principles of Physiological Psychology,1904

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Wilhelm Wundt.Principles of Physiological PsychologyTranslated byEdward B. Titchener1904. Republished 1969.

  • The results of ethnic psychology constitute... our chief source of information regarding the general psychology of the complex mental processes.
    • p. 5
  • In Aristotle themind,regarded as the principle of life, divides into nutrition, sensation, and faculty of thought, corresponding to the inner most important stages in the succession of vital phenomena.
    • p. 22
  • From the standpoint of observation, then, we must regard it as a highly probable hypothesis that the beginnings of the mental life date from as far back as the beginnings of life at large.
    • p. 31

An Introduction to Psychology(1912)

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An Introduction to Psychology,1912; 1924.

  • The whole task ofpsychologycan therefore be summed up in these two problems: (1) What are the elements ofconsciousness?(2) What combinations do these elements undergo and what laws govern these combinations?
  • If we take an unprejudiced view of the processes of consciousness, free from all the so-called association rules and theories, we see at once that an idea is no more an even relatively constant thing than is a feeling or emotion or volitional process. There exist only changing and transient ideational processes; there are no permanent ideas thatreturnagain anddisappearagain.
    • p. 122

Quotes about Wilhelm Wundt

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  • He aims at being a sort of Napoleon of the intellectual world. Unfortunately he will never have a Waterloo, for he is a Napoleon without genius and with no central idea which, if defeated, brings down the whole fabric in ruin.
    • Letter to Carl Stumpf, Feb. 6, 1887.[1]


  • Throughout the nineteenth century, apart from the division intheoretical sciencesandarts,classifiers attempted to divide the sciences into two groups. Already they had before them the examples ofFrancis Bacon(speculative and descriptive) andHobbes(quantitative and qualitative). ForColeridge,the sciences were eitherpure(Grammar, Logic, Rhetoric, Mathematics, Metaphysics) or mixed.Arthur Schopenhauer’s similar groups were calledpureandempirical,Wilhelm Wundt in 1887 called themformalandempirical,Globotmathematicalandtheoretical,and the St. Louis Congress of Arts and Sciences (1904)normativeandphysical.Karl Pearsonmade similar division of the sciences intoabstract and concrete
    • Brian Vickery(1958)Classification and indexing in science.p. 154.
  • Imageryplayed a central role in theories of themindfor centuries. For example, the BritishAssociationistsconceptualizes thought itself as sequences of images. And, Wilhelm Wundt, the founder of scientific psychology, emphasized the analysis of images. However, the central role of imagery in theories of mental activity was undermined whenKulpe,in 1904, pointed out that some thoughts are not accompanied by imagery (e.g., one is not aware of the processes that allow one to decide which of two objects is heavier).
    • Robert Andrew Wilson, ‎Frank C. Keil (2001),The MIT Encyclopedia of the Cognitive Sciences.p. 387
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  1. ↑THE THOUGHT AND CHARACTER OF WILLIAM JAMES VOLUME II. PHILOSOPHY AND PSYCHOLOGY.By RALPH BARTON PERRY. LONDON: HUMPHREY MILFORD OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS. Page 68
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