Shearon, Tim wrote:
Deb- I think this is probably extracted from the text sources
(historical). This sounds almost verbatim to the treatment of Helmholtz
in Boring. Those treatments usually treat Helmholtz as if he were some
kind of a pre-psychological campaigner. In fact, he saw psychology as a
retreat to vitalist superstition and as antiscientific. If you look at
the preface to his last text, for example, you'll see that he calls on
his students and followers to finish the job he started and show all of
psychology to be superstition and nonsense.
I am not positive, but I think you'll find that he's refering to what we
today would call parapsychology. The term "psychology" was widely used
to refer to psychical phenomena rather than to (say) Wundt's
brass-n-glass reasction time stuff. *That's* what he (and most other
experimental psychologists -- William James excluded, of course) saw as
"vitalist superstition and as antiscientific"
Regards,
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