Tradition
Psychologism
Overview
Psychologism (or logical psychologism) is a family of philosophical positions, according to which logical laws, truths, or principles are grounded in, reducible to, or explained by psychological facts, laws, or processes.
The term was coined by Johann Eduard Erdmann as Psychologismus, being translated into English as psychologism.
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Many psychologists and philosophers have denied the existence of special laws for our psychical life, if we understand this to mean specific laws, differing from the universal physical ones. Some say that everything that is called a psychical law is nothing but a psychological reflex of physical combinations, which is made up of sensations joined to certain central cerebral processes. Others maintain that there are…
Wilhelm Max Wundt, An Introduction to Psychology Translated from the Second German Edition
States what Psychologism is; the author is tied to Psychologism in the knowledge graph.
This point of view makes it possible for logical theory to come to terms with psychology.[2] When logic is considered as having to do with the wholesale activity of thought per se, the question of the historic process by which this or that particular thought came to be, of how its object happens to present itself as sensation, or perception, or conception, is quite irrelevant. These things are mere temporal…
John Dewey, Studies in Logical Theory
Names Psychologism.
It is highly important that this natural-science point of view should be understood at the outset. Otherwise more may be demanded of the psychologist than he ought to be expected to perform. A diagram will exhibit more emphatically what the assumptions of Psychology must be: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | | The | The Thought | The Thought's | The…
William James, The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1
Names Psychologism several times.
Philosophers who discussed Psychologism
- Wilhelm Windelband
- Henri Bergson
- Karl Popper
- Hermann Lotze
- Wilhelm Wundt
- Martin Heidegger
- Gottlob Frege
- Frithjof Schuon
- Edmund Husserl
- Theodor Lipps
- Johann Eduard Erdmann
- Christoph von Sigwart
- Dale Jacquette
- Vladimir Dvorniković
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- Ned Block
- Philosophy
- An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
- Springer Science+Business Media
- John Stuart Mill
- John Locke
- London
- Mathematics
- Anti-psychologism
- Philosophy of logic
- Turing test
- Oxford English Dictionary
- Psychology
- Wilhelm Wundt
- Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
- Logic
- Philosophy of mathematics
- Gottlob Frege
- Reductionism
- Classical logic
- New York City
- Shaun Gallagher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Philosophy of mind
Place in the tradition
Part of Analytic philosophy.