Gustav T. Fechner

Fechner, Gustav Theodor - goosˈtäf tāˈōdōr fĕkhˈnər, 1801–87, German philosopher and physicist, founder of psychophysics, educated at Dresden and Leipzig. He became professor of physics at Leipzig in 1834 but was forced by ill health to leave in 1839. Thereafter he devoted himself largely to the study of the relationship between Read More...

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The Wave Theory of Difference and Similarity (Chap. 1 "The Elements")
by Stephen W. Link. 378 pgs.

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Preface

I: Psychophysical Origins Of Difference and Similarity

Introduction

1: The Elements

2: Challenges and Extensions

3: The Origin of The Psychometric Function

4: The Law of Comparative Judgment

6: The Psychological Ideal

7: Discrimination And Response Bias

8 Discrimination And Response Strategy

II: Wave Theory

Introduction

9: Wave Discrimination Theory

10: Response Probabilities And Response Times

11 Response Bias

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13: A Theory of Sensation

14 Discriminability And Responsiveness

15: Theory of Feeling

16: Bias, Responsiveness, And Strategy

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DÉnouement

Appendices

References

Supplemental References

Subject Index
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Cognition, Information Processing, and Psychophysics: Basic Issues (Chap. 1 "Fechner's Inner Psychophysics: Its Historical Fate and Present Status" and Chap. 2 "Freud and Fechner, Desire and Energy, Hermeneutics and Psychophysics")
by Hans-Georg Geissler, Stephen W. Link, James T. Townsend. 340 pgs.

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I FOUNDATIONS AND EPISTEMOLOGY

1: Fechner's Inner Psychophysics: Its Historical Fate and Present Status

2: Freud and Fechner, Desire and Energy, Hermeneutics and Psychophysics

INTRODUCTION

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

INTRODUCTION

3: Toward a Theory of Consciousness

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

4: Cognitive Development: Two Paradigms

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5: Drawing Inferences from Representation Structure: In Defense of a Formal Theory Of Representations

CONCLUSION

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

6: On the Proper Scales for Reaction Time

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II EXPERIMENTAL THEMES: PERSPECTIVES AND CRITICAL ANALYSES

7: Mental Psychophysics of Categorization and Decision

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

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8: Reference Frames in the Perception of Spatial Structure

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9: Context Effects in judgments of Attributes: An Information- Integration Approach

10: Elaborations Upon Psychophysical Contexts for Judgment: Implications of Cognitive Models

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11: Fundamentals of Cognitive Judgments of Pattern

CONCLUSION

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

12: Psychophysical Analysis of Pain: A Functional Perspective

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

13: New Magical Numbers in Mental Activity: On a Taxonomic System for Critical Time Periods

INTRODUCTION

Author Index

Subject Index
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History, Psychology, and Science: Selected Papers ("Fechner: Inadvertent Founder of Psychophysics, 1961" begins on p. 126)
by Edwin G. Boring. 374 pgs.

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Editors' Foreword

Editors' Preface

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The Zeitgeist and The Psychology of Science

Interpretation: 1929

Great Men And Scientific Progress: 1950

The Problem of Originality in Science: 1927

The Psychology of Controversy: 1929

Dissent: 1961

Science and the Meaning Of Its History: 1959

Human Nature Vs. Sensation: William James and The Psychology of the Present: 1942

The History of Psychology

Fechner: Inadvertent Founder Of Psychophysics: 1961

Masters and Pupils Among The American Psychologists: 1948

The Beginning and Growth Of Measurement in Psychology: 1961

The Influence of Evolutionary Theory Upon American Psychological Thought: 1950

The Scientific Method

Temporal Perception And Operationism: 1936

An Operational Restatement Of G. E. Müller's Psychophysical Axioms: 1941

The Use of Operational Definitions in Science: 1945

The Role of Theory In Experimental Psychology: 1953

Statistical Frequencies As Dynamic Equilibria: 1941

The Validation Of Scientific Belief: 1952

The Mind-Body Problem

The Physiology Of Consciousness: 1932

Psychophysiological Systems And Isomorphic Relations: 1936

A Psychological Function is The Relation of Successive Differentiations Of Events in the Organism: 1937

The Psychology Of Communicating Science

The Social Predicament Of Book Reviewing: 1960

Cybernetic Justice: 1958

Ortgeister: 1956

Isolationism in the Languages: 1956

References

Index of Names

Index
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A Functional Theory of Cognition ("Fechner's Psycho-Physical Law" begins on p. 84)
by Norman H. Anderson. 502 pgs.

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Dedication

Foreword

Contents

Preface

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Chapter 1 Cognitive Theory of Everyday Life

Notes

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Chapter 2 Cognitive Algebra

Notes

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Chapter 3 Psychological Measurement Theory

Notes

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Chapter 4 Person Cognition

Notes

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Chapter 5 Unified Social Cognition

Notes

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Chapter 6 Social Development

Notes

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Chapter 7 Moral Algebra

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Chapter 8 Cognitive Development

Notes

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Chapter 9 Integration Psychophysics

Notes

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Chapter 10 Cognitive Theory of Judgment-Decision

Notes

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Chapter 11 Functional Memory

Notes

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Chapter 12 Algebraic Language Processing

Notes

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Chapter 13 Unified Theory

References

Author Index

Subject Index*
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A Pluralistic Universe: Hibbert Lectures at Manchester College on the Present Situation in Philosophy (Chap. IV "Concerning Fechner")
by William James, Henry Samuel Levinson. 412 pgs.

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Going against the grain of entrenched philosophy, James argues in A Pluralistic Universe that the world is not a uni-verse but a multi-verse. He honors the human experience of manyness and disconnection (and various kinds of unity) in the world of flux and sensation, a world that is discounted scornfully by the monists.

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Introduction

Contents

I: The Types of Philosophic Thinking

Lecture I: The Types of Philosophic Thinking

II: Monistic Idealism

Lecture II

III: Hegel and His Method

Lecture III

IV: Concerning Fechner

Lecture IV

V: The Compounding of Consciousness

Lecture V

VI: Bergson and His Critique of Intellectualism

Lecture VI

VII: The Continuity of Experience

Lecture VII

VIII: Conclusions

Lecture VIII

Notes

Appendices

Index
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The Discovery of the Unconscious: The History and Evolution of Dynamic Psychiatry ("The Epigones of Romanticism: Fechner and Bachofen" begins on p. 215)
by Henri F. Ellenberger. 932 pgs.

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Introduction

Personal Acknowledgments

Contents

Illustrations

1: The Ancestry of Dynamic Psychotherapy

2: The Emergence of Dynamic Psychiatry

3: The First Dynamic Psychiatry (1775-1900)

4: The Background of Dynamic Psychiatry

5: On the Threshold of a New Dynamic Psychiatry

6: Pierre Janet and Psychological Analysis

7: Sigmund Freud and Psychoanalysis

8: Alfred Adler and Individual Psychology

9: Carl Gustav Jung and Analytical Psychology

10: The Dawn and Rise of the New Dynamic Psychiatry

11: Conclusion

Acknowledgments

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A Hundred Years of Psychology, 1833-1933 (Chap. VI "Fechner and Psycho-Physics")
by J. C. Flugel. 386 pgs.

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Preface

Chapter II: Systematic Psychology of the Early Nineteenth Century--Thomas Brown, James Mill, Beneke

Chapter III: Phrenology

Chapter IV Early Physiological Psychology

Chapter V: Sensation and the Sense Organs

Chapter VI: Mesmerism and Abnormal Psychology

Part II: 1833-186o

Chapter II: Systematic Psychology--J. S. Mill., Bain, Lotze

Chapter III: Physiological Psychology--J. MÜller, Helmholtz, Weber, Fechner

Chapter IV: Hypnotism and Abnormal Psychology--Elliotson, Esdaile, Braid

Part III: 1860-1900

Chapter II: The Beginnings of Animal Psychology

Chapter III: Galton and the Study of the Individual

Chapter IV: Child Psychology and Social Psychology

Chapter V: Systematic Psychology--The Great Textbooks, Brentano to James

Chapter VI: Fechner and Psycho-Physics

Chapter VII: Helmholtz and the Study of Sensation

Chapter VIII: Wundt and the Beginning of Experimental Psychology At Leipzig

Chapter IX: Further Studies in Sensation

Chapter X: The Development of Experimental Psychology--

Chapter XI: The Expansion of Psychology--Wundt's Pupils In Europe and America

Chapter XII: France and the Development of Abnormal Psychology

Chapter XIII: Physiological Psychology

Part IV: 1900-1933

Chapter II: "Structural" and "Functional" Psychology

Chapter III: The Experimental Study of Thought and Will-- KÜlpe and the WÜrzburg School

Chapter V: Behaviourism and Animal Psychology--Bechterev, Pavlov, Watson

Chapter VIII: Freud and Psycho-Analysis

Chapter IX: Adler, Jung and "Type" Psychology

Chapter X: The Development of Mental Tests

Chapter XI: Spearman and the "Factor" School

Chapter XII: Sensation

Chapter XIII: Psychology in Relation to Sociology and Anthropology

Chapter XIV: Psychology and Education

Chapter XV: Psychology and Industry

Chapter XVI: Conclusion--The Present Position of Psychology

Chronological Table of Some Major Events in The History of Modern Psychology

Subject Index

Index
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The Pluralist Philosophies of England & America (Chap. I "German Influences")
by Jean Wahl. 324 pgs.

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The Pluralist Philosophies Of England & America

Book II: The Formation of Pluralism

Chapter I: German Influences

Chapter II: The Influence of Polish Philosophers

Chapter III: French Influences

Chapter IV: English and American Influences

Chapter V: The English Spirit: the American Spirit

Chapter VI: Pragmatism and Pluralism

Book III: William James

Book IV: From Personal Idealism to Neo-Realism

Chapter I: The Oxford School and Schiller

Chapter II: Howison and the Californian School: Some Pluralist Idealists

Chapter III: Some Tendencies of Contemporary Psychologists And Logicians

Chapter IV: Neo-Realism

Chapter V: Pragmatic Realism: the Beginnings Of Critical Realism

Conclusion

Appendix I: Some Definitions of Pluralism

Appendix II: The Words "Pluralism," "Meliorism," "Moralism"

Index
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A Union Function for Neural and Psychological Response, in Journal of General Psychology
by Chen Wenxi. 20 pgs.

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Biographical Dictionary of Psychology ("Fechner, Gustav Theodor" begins on p. 127)
by Leonard Zusne. 568 pgs.

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"Recommended for collections strong in the area of biographical reference." Library Journal

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Preface

Explanatory Notes

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G

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K

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Appendix A: Chronological Listing by Birth Date

Appendix B: Relative Eminence of Names in the History of Psychology

Appendix C: Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Contributors in Academic and Research Institutions, Geographically and Chronologically Arranged

Index

About the Author
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Reinterpreting the Legacy of William James (Chap. 17 "William James and Gustav Fechner: From Rejection to Elective Affinity")
by Margaret E. Donnelly. 371 pgs.

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Contributors

Foreword

Preface

Introduction

I: Present Relevance of James)s Legacy

1: The Case for a Uniquely American Jamesian Tradition in Psychology

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2: Are There Unifying Trends in the Psychologies of the 1990s?

References

3: William James and Contemporary Psychology

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II: Celebrating the Principles of Psychology

4: Evolution and Revision of the Principles

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5: The World We Practically Live in

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6: William James on the Advantages of a Pluralistic Psychology

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7: Toward a Psychology That is Radically Empirical: Recapturing the Vision of William James

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8: A Phenomenological Reinterpretation of the Jamesian Schema for Psychology

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III: James's Debt to Darwin

9: Selection— James's Principal Principle

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10: James's Evolutionary Expistemology: "Necessary Truths and the Effects of Experience"

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IV: Further Thoughts on the Self

11: William James and the Psychology of Self

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12: William James and Contemporary Research on the Self: the Influence of Pragmatism, Reality, and Truth

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V: Emotion: "Here's What's Happened to Emotion, Mr. James"

13: Silvan Tomkins's Theory of Emotion

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14: William James)s Other Theory of Emotion

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15: A Phenomenological Response to James's View of Emotion

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16: A Study of Emotion in the Context of Radical Empiricism

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VI: Selected Topics: Mining the Jamesian Lode

17: William James and Gustav Fechner: from Rejection to Elective Affinity

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18: William James and Instinct Theory Revisited

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19: William James: Closet Clinician

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20: William James on the Mind and the Body

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21: William James and the Concept of Free Will

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22: William James: Pioneering Ancestor of Modern Parapsychology

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Epilogue

23: A Centennial Note: What Would William James Say about the American Psychological Association Today?

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Index
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Psychophysics: The Fundamentals ("Fechner's Psychophysics" begins on p. 10)
by George A. Gescheider. 440 pgs.

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Preface

Acknowledgments

1 Psychophysical Measurement Of Thresholds: Differential Sensitivity

2 Psychophysical Measurement Of Thresholds: Absolute Sensitivity

3 The Classical Psychophysical Methods

4 Classical Psychophysical Theory

5 The Theory of Signal Detection

6 Further Considerations of Tsd

7 Procedures of Tsd

8 Some Applications of Tsd

9 The Measurement of Sensory Attributes And Discrimination Scales

10 Partition Scales

11 Psychophysical Ratio Scaling

12 Evaluation of Ratio Scaling Methods

13 The Psychophysical Law

14 Some Fundamental Issues In Psychophysical Scaling

Conclusion

Appendix

Glossary

References

Author Index

Subject Index

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