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Sep 15, 2024 · Psychophysics, the study of the relationship between physical stimuli and the sensations and perceptions they produce, was Fechner’s brainchild. This revolutionary approach to understanding human perception would go on to become the cornerstone of experimental psychology, paving the way for a more scientific and quantitative study of the mind.
Dec 18, 2010 · Fechner's Elemente – an establishment of its own. Daniel N. Robinson on the 150th anniversary of a text that many consider to be the first in experimental psychology. Fechner's attempt to place psychology on the firm foundations of experimental science was undertaken in a sceptical intellectual atmosphere still philosophically dominated by ...
Jan 12, 2020 · Gustav Theodor Fechner (1801–1887) is one of the most enigmatic thinkers of nineteenth century German philosophy. His intellectual soul was fractured, torn into two deeply divided halves, each of which claimed dominance over the other. His entire career was an attempt to unite these warring sides.
Gustav Fechner (born April 19, 1801, Gross Särchen, near Muskau, Lusatia [Germany]—died November 18, 1887, Leipzig, Germany) was a German physicist and philosopher who was a key figure in the founding of psychophysics, the science concerned with quantitative relations between sensations and the stimuli producing them.
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Mar 1, 2012 · Abstract. Fechner remains virtually unknown for his psychological research on the unconscious. However, he was one of the most prominent theorists of unconscious cognition of the 19th century, in the context of the rise of scientific investigations on the unconscious in German psychology. In line with the models previously developed by Leibniz ...
- David Romand
- 2012
Gustav Theodor Fechner (ˈfɛxnər; German: [ˈfɛçnɐ]; 19 April 1801 – 18 November 1887) [ 1 ] was a German physicist, philosopher, and experimental psychologist. A pioneer in experimental psychology and founder of psychophysics (techniques for measuring the mind), he inspired many 20th-century scientists and philosophers.
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Abstract. The objective of this text is to show the importance of Gustav Fechner’s contributions to the history of psychology, related to the epistemology questions, as introduced by modern philosophy. The question of knowledge that initiated with Descartes serves as a starting point for all demonstrable truth, and that generates as a ...
