Wilhelm Wundt and the Establishment of Experimental Psychology,
1875-1914: The Context of a New Field of Scientific Research
by
David Kent Robinson
A.B. Harvard University 1976
M.A. University of California 1980
DISSERTATION
submitted in partial satisfaction of the requirements for the
degree of DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY IN HISTORY
in the Graduate Division of the
University of California, Berkeley
Approved: 20 April 1987
TABLE OF CONTENTS OF ENTIRE DISSERTATION
Chapters
1. The birth of scientific psychology.
2. Wundt's first forty-three years: "Only a stage of preparation." (PDF 267 KB)
3. Establishment of the Institute of Experimental Psychology at Leipzig, 1875-1883. (PDF 194 KB)
4. Institutionalizing experimental psychology: The model in Leipzig in the 1880s. (PDF 146 KB)
5. Institutionalizing experimental psychology: Leipzig psychology goes out into the world. 1880-1895.
6. Institutionalizing experimental psychology: Modest gains in the German universities, 1887-1897.
7. Wundt and the competition with other German psychologists, 1887-1896.
8. Psychology reconsolidates in Leipzig and makes uneven gains in Germany, 1896-1914.
9. Epilogue and conclusion: Experimental psychology, psychology, and philosophy.
Appendices
1. Personnel of the Institute for Experimental Psychology, Leipzig, 1883-1918.
2. Experimental psychologists as German professors of philosophy, 1873-1920.
3. Persons relevant to German experimental psychology, 1875-1914.
Figures
2.1. Wundt's ophthalmotrope.
2.2. Zöllner's illusion.
3.1. Sketch of the Leipzig Institute for Experimental Psychology, 1883.
3.2. Sketch of Leipzig University, ca. 1883.
3.3. Balance sheet for Philosophische Studien, 1890.
4.1. Reaction time apparatus (auditory).
7.1. Wundt's tridimensional theory of feelings.
8.1. Sketch of Leipzig University, 1896.
8.2. Sketch of the Leipzig Institute for Experimental Psychology, 1896.