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[Thought as lived experience. The Würzburg School]
1Université de Genéve, Faculté de psychologie et des sciences de l'education, 40, boulevard du Pont d'Arve, CH-1211 Genève 4. Janette.Friedrich@unige.ch
Abstract:
The core of our essay is the "psychology of thought" (Denkpsychologie), which was elaborated by the Würzburg School at the beginning of the 20th century. We will show how this School synthesized two contemporary trends: Brentano's project of a psychology from an empirical point of view and the use of experiments beyond the limits of perception. Through the works of Karl Bühler we will criticize the legitimacy of the psychologistic approach, which was applied to all psychological schools of thought participating in the debate on the nature of thought. We will also discuss the Bühlerian idea of a present knowledge, which aims to avoid the consequence of mind localization, a very tempting issue for the psychology of thought.
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