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Mind's Content
Wilhelm Maximilian Wundt and Franz Clemens Brentano were both German philosophers and psychologists working in the 19th to early 20th Centuries. Much of Wundt's work was discredited by the mid-20th Century, in part due to mistranslations of his work. Brentano, however, had a circle of followers who translated and rewrote his work to such an extent that he was published more after his death than during his life.
The relationship between the mind's contents and input from the environment vs. The activity of the mind acting on itself, according to Wundt and Brentano
Wilhelm Maximilian Wundt (1832-1920), is known as the Father of Experimental Psychology. Practicing exclusively in Germany, he established the first laboratory for psychological research in Leipzig in 1879 (Kim, 2006). Wundt established the Selbstbeobachtung, using...
According to Wundt, psychology must begin with self-observation and the "inner" is immediate; therefore, it can distinguish itself from the "external" (Kim, 2006). Wundt believed in "psychophysical parallelism" in which the mind and physiology are independent from each other (Macnamara, 1999, p. 204). In Wundt's schema, there is no causal relationship between the two; rather, "psychic causality" explains the cognitive or mental life and processes while "physiological causality" explains the physiological life and processes (Macnamara, 1999, p. 204). As such, Wundt believed that psychology's major areas could not be studied through the introduction of external or environmental input (Macnamara, 1999, p. 210). Wundt believed that when we focus on mental phenomenon, we actually focus on…
Works Cited
Huemer, W. (2010, February 1). Franz Brentano. Retrieved on March 11, 2012 from Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/brentano/
Kim, A. (2006, June 20). Wilhelm Maximilian Wundt. Retrieved on March 11, 2012 from Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/wilhelm-wundt/
Macnamara, J. (1999). Through the rearview mirror: Historical reflections on psychology. Cambridge, MA: Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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