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Wilhelm Wundt
Also known as: Wilhelm Maximilian Wundt
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Panpsychism (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy/Fall 2015 Edition) plato.stanford.edu May 23, 2001 8 facts
claimThe argument that emergence is strictly impossible is rooted in the ancient dictum 'ex nihilo, nihil fit,' which Wilhelm Wundt appealed to in his 1892/1894 work.
referenceWilhelm Wundt authored 'Vorlesungen über die Menschen- und Thierseele' (Lectures on Human and Animal Psychology), published in 1892/1894 by L. Voss, with an English translation by J.E. Creighton and E.B. Titchener published by S. Sonnenschein.
claimWilhelm Wundt argued that the purposiveness and appropriateness of the behavior of simple micro-organisms could not arise suddenly through the mere conglomeration of material particles via elementary physical forces.
claimProminent exponents of distinctive forms of panpsychism in the nineteenth century included Gustav Fechner, Wilhelm Wundt, Rudolf Hermann Lotze, William James, Josiah Royce, and William Clifford.
perspectiveWilhelm Wundt defended panpsychism by arguing that it is the only theory capable of explaining the movement phenomena displayed by primitive creatures.
claimWilhelm Wundt (1832-1920) was an early psychologist who established the first psychological research laboratory.
quoteWilhelm Wundt stated: "a theory, it is true; but it is the only theory which can explain the phenomena of movement displayed by these primitive creatures."
claimGustav Fechner, Wilhelm Wundt, and William James are classified as "parallelist panpsychists" who endorse a Spinozistic parallelism between mind and matter, where every physical entity has mental attributes and vice versa.
Quantum Approaches to Consciousness plato.stanford.edu Nov 30, 2004 2 facts
referenceWilhelm Wundt authored the third volume of 'Grundzüge der physiologischen Psychologie', published in 1911 by Wilhelm Engelmann in Leipzig.
claimHistorical proponents of dual aspect or psychophysically neutral views include Baruch Spinoza, Gustav Fechner (1861), Wilhelm Wundt (1911), and Alfred North Whitehead (1978).
Panpsychism - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy plato.stanford.edu May 23, 2001 2 facts
claimThe claim that emergence is strictly impossible is rooted in the ancient dictum 'ex nihilo, nihil fit' (out of nothing, nothing comes), a principle to which Wilhelm Wundt explicitly appealed.
referenceThe Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy entry on Panpsychism lists related entries including George Berkeley, consciousness, René Descartes, dualism, emergent properties, epiphenomenalism, Charles Hartshorne, William James, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, mereology, monism, neutral monism, pantheism, physicalism, qualia, quantum theory and consciousness, Josiah Royce, Baruch Spinoza, Alfred North Whitehead, and Wilhelm Maximilian Wundt.
Panpsychism - Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org 2 facts
claimIsaac Newton, John Locke, Gottfried Leibniz, John Stuart Mill, Thomas Henry Huxley, and Wilhelm Wundt all wrote about the seeming incompatibility of third-person functional descriptions of mind and matter and first-person conscious experience.
claimPsychologists Gustav Fechner, Wilhelm Wundt, and Rudolf Hermann Lotze promoted panpsychist ideas during the 19th century.
Panpsychism - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy plato.stanford.edu Jul 18, 2017 1 fact
claimProminent historical exponents of distinctive forms of panpsychism include Gustav Fechner (1801–1887), Wilhelm Wundt (1832–1920), Rudolf Hermann Lotze (1817–1881), William James (1842–1910), Josiah Royce (1855–1916), and William Clifford (1845–1879).
Evolutionary psychology - Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org 1 fact
claimCharles Darwin's evolutionary psychological publications influenced the physiological and folk psychologies of Wilhelm Wundt.
Quantum Approaches to Consciousness plato.stanford.edu Nov 30, 2004 1 fact
claimGustav Fechner (1861) and Wilhelm Wundt (1911) advocated for dual aspect views during the early development of psychophysics.
Consciousness (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy/Fall 2025 ... plato.stanford.edu Jun 18, 2004 1 fact
claimAt the beginning of modern scientific psychology in the mid-nineteenth century, the mind was largely equated with consciousness, and introspective methods dominated the field, as seen in the work of Wilhelm Wundt (1897), Hermann von Helmholtz (1897), William James (1890), and Alfred Titchener (1901).