WUNDT, WILHELM MAX (1832 )

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WUNDT, WILHELM MAX (1832 ) , German physiologist and philosopher, was born on the 16th of August 1832 at Neckarau, in Baden. He studied

medicine

MEDICINE

at Tubingen,

Heidelberg

HEIDELBERG

and Berlin, and in 1857 began to lecture at

Heidelberg

HEIDELBERG

. In 1864 he became assistant professor there, and in 1866 was chosen to represent Heidelberg in the Baden Chamber, but soon resigned. In 1894 he was elected regular professor of philosophy at Zurich, and in the following year was called to the corresponding chair at

Leipzig

LEIPZIG

, where he founded an Institute for Experimental Psychology, the precursor of many similar institutes. The

list

LIST (O.E.
lisle
- LISLE, ALICE (c. 1614-1685)
, a Teutonic word, cf. Dut. lust, Ger. Leiste, adapted in Ital. lista and Fr.
lisle
- LISLE, ALICE (c. 1614-1685)
)
LIST,
FRIEDRICH
- FRIEDRICH, JOHANN (1836— )
(1789-1846)

Wundt

WUNDT, WILHELM MAX (1832— )

's works is long and comprehensive, including

physiology

PHYSIOLOGY (from Gr. 4 i s, nature, and koyos, discourse)

, psychology, logic and ethics. His earlier works deal chiefly with

physiology

PHYSIOLOGY (from Gr. 4 i s, nature, and koyos, discourse)

, though often in close connexion with psychology, as in the Vorlesungen fiber die Menschen- and Tierseele (1863; 4th ed., 1906; trans. Creighton and Titchener, 1896), Lehrbuch der Physiologic des Menschen (1865; 4th ed., 1878), and Grundziige der physiologischen Psychologie (1874; 6th ed., 3 vols., 1908). He published an important

work

WORK

on Logik (188o1883; 3rd ed., 19061907), and this was followed in 1886 by his Ethik (3rd ed., 1903). According to

Wundt

WUNDT, WILHELM MAX (1832— )

, the straight road to ethics lies through ethnic psychology, whose especial business it is to consider the history of custom and of ethical ideas from the psychological standpoint. We must look for ethics to

supply

SUPPLY (through Fr. from Lat. supplere, to fill up)

the corner-stone of metaphysics, and psychology is a necessary propaedeutic. The System der Philosophic (1899; 3rd ed., 1907) contained the results of Wundt's

work

WORK

up to that date, both in
the domain of science and in the more strictly philosophic field. The metaphysical or ontological 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 Suggestion. Subsequent important works are the Grundriss der Psychologie (1896; 8th ed., 1907; trans. 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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