Gustav Theodor Fechner (1801-1887) was a German physicist, psychologist, and philosopher, best known to historians of science as the founder of psychophysics, the experimental study of the relation between mental and physical processes. Michael Heidelberger's exhaustive exploration of Fechner's writings, in relation to current issues in the field, successfully reestablishes Fechner's place in the history and philosophy of science.
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"A brilliant book. . . . No historian of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century German science and philosophy can afford to ignore it."
—British Journal for the History of Science
—British Journal for the History of Science
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Fechner's Theory of Mental Hypothesis Testing,
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This review is from: Nature From Within: Gustav Theodor Fechner And His Psychophysical Worldview (Hardcover)
This amazingly thoughful study of the 19th-century influence of physicist, psychophysicist, estheticist and philosopher Gustav Fechner (1801-1987)provides a compehensive analysis of the intellectual crosscurrents of 19th-century European thought. Fechner's creation of "mental hypothesis testing" created the methodology for experimental psychology and the foundation for statistical hypothesis testing and descriptive statistics. This fine book permits us to see the intellectual forces at work and the stuggle, by Fechner, to define the relation of mind and body. A welcome translation from the 1992 German original. A must read for students of psychology and history of science.
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