Gustav Theodor Fechner

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Gustave Theodor Fechner: Dates

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1801-1887

1834: Prof physics (leipzig)
1839: Eye disease (in studying color after images)

Question 2

Gustav Theodor Fechner: what did he do

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Chemical and Physical papers
Poems and humorous texts
Mysticus and metaphysics
Panpsychism and monism

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Gustav Theodor Fechner: Panpsychism and Monism

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Everything in nature has a soul
He rejects the Cartesian dualism of mind and body
He defends a monistic view on the relation between the physical and the mental as two aspects of the same (identity)

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Gustav Theodor Fechner

Answer 4

Wanted to map the functional relation between the physical and the mental and thus developed Psychophysics, The exact scien of the functional relation between the body and mind
Elemente Der Psychophysik (1860)

Question 5

Elemente Der Psychophysik (1860)

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Start of psychophysics

Milestone in the development of psychology as a science