
Publication details
Publisher: Springer
Place: Berlin
Year: 2014
Pages: 17-46
Series: History and Philosophy of Psychology
ISBN (Hardback): 9783319010618
Full citation:
, "Psychology without a soul", in: Edgar Rubin and psychology in Denmark, Berlin, Springer, 2014


Psychology without a soul
pp. 17-46
in: , Edgar Rubin and psychology in Denmark, Berlin, Springer, 2014Abstract
This chapter describes Edgar Rubin's education in philosophical psychology at the University of Copenhagen from 1904–1910. Here, he was taught by professors Kristian Kroman (1846–1925) and Harald Høffding (1843–1931). Both were representatives of the positivistic turn in Danish philosophy at the end of the nineteenth century. Psychology was a required subject for all first-year students at the University of Copenhagen. The chapter compares and contrasts the approaches of Høffding and Kroman to psychology. Both are broadly based on associationist principles, and yet they also reveal interesting differences. The chapter also deals in broad outline with some aspects of Danish intellectual life at the turn of the twentieth century.
Publication details
Publisher: Springer
Place: Berlin
Year: 2014
Pages: 17-46
Series: History and Philosophy of Psychology
ISBN (Hardback): 9783319010618
Full citation:
, "Psychology without a soul", in: Edgar Rubin and psychology in Denmark, Berlin, Springer, 2014