Empiricism and conceptual psychology

psychophysics and philology

pp. 105-149

in: Katherine Arens, Structures of knowing, Berlin, Springer, 1989

Abstract

Within fifty years of the time that Kant and Herbart opened the way to a conceptual psychology dealing with the workings of the mind, its historicity, and its contents, several attempts were made to incorporate these advances into the foundations of humanistic disciplines.