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Oswald külpe and the Würzburg school
Author(s) -
Lindenfeld David
Publication year - 1978
Publication title -
journal of the history of the behavioral sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.216
H-Index - 26
eISSN - 1520-6696
pISSN - 0022-5061
DOI - 10.1002/1520-6696(197804)14:2<132::aid-jhbs2300140206>3.0.co;2-4
Subject(s) - relation (database) , positivism , realism , epistemology , logical positivism , philosophy , psychoanalysis , psychology , computer science , database
This article is based on research in the Külpe archives in Munich, as well as on analysis of his published works. It addresses itself to some of the unresolved questions regarding Külpe's relation to the Würzburg School and seeks to explain this relation in terms of Külpe's changing philosophical views. Külpe's shift in the late 1890s from Machian phenomenalism to realism led to his interest in the psychology of thinking and may be seen as part of the “revolt against positivism” of that decade.