RETHINKING THE BIRTH OF SCIENTIFIC PSYCHOLOGY: PSYCHOPHYSICS BETWEEN PHILOSOPHICAL PSYCHOLOGY AND PHYSIOLOGICAL PSYCHOLOGY
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Rethinking, Wundt, philosophical psychology, psychophysics, physiological psychologyAbstract
This study critically examines the canonical interpretation of the emergence of scientific psychology, traditionally centered on the figure of Wilhelm Wundt and the founding of the Leipzig laboratory in 1879. Methodologically, the research is conducted through a historical-conceptual documentary analysis, aimed at reviewing the theoretical and scientific antecedents that preceded the institutionalization of the discipline. Based on this review, the study reconstructs the process of convergence between philosophical psychology and natural sciences during the nineteenth century. Within this framework, the contributions of the psychophysics of Weber and Fechner are analyzed as a fundamental antecedent for the formulation of a quantitative relationship between physical stimulus and subjective experience. Likewise, Wundt’s physiological psychology is examined as a methodological synthesis that articulates the study of the internal and external worlds through the study of sensation. The results of the analysis make it possible to reconsider the birth of scientific psychology not as an abrupt rupture, but rather as the result of a gradual process of convergence between philosophical and scientific traditions.
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