Metaphysics and the science of the soul

pp. 123-154

in: Liliana Albertazzi, Immanent realism, Berlin, Springer, 2006

Abstract

Psychophysics sheds light on one of the key problems of psychology as a science, namely the applicability of mathematics to the measurement of psychic phenomena, an issue which had also been addressed, but left unresolved, by Kant. But as the question entered the realm of the exact sciences it carried with it the traces of metaphysical disputes.