Schopenhauer, Rokitansky and Lange

towards an explicit philosophical justification of German "materialism" (from about 1840)

pp. 156-200

in: Gerlof Verwey, Psychiatry in an anthropological and biomedical context, Berlin, Springer, 1985

Abstract

In our background study in Chapter 2 we devoted considerable attention to the philosophical and scientific influences which worked together in the genesis and growth of the mechanistic ideal of science and the mechanistic self-conception of, amongst other things, physiology, psychology and medicine (including psychiatry).