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Unconscious inferences in perception in early experimental psychology: From Wundt to Peirce
What are unconscious inferences in psychology? This article investigates their journey from the early philosophical psychology of Wilhelm Wundt (1832–1920) to the experimental psychology of the American pragmatist Charles S. Peirce (1839–1914). Peirce's reception of Wundt's early works sit...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9796652/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35791907 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jhbs.22211 |
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description | What are unconscious inferences in psychology? This article investigates their journey from the early philosophical psychology of Wilhelm Wundt (1832–1920) to the experimental psychology of the American pragmatist Charles S. Peirce (1839–1914). Peirce's reception of Wundt's early works situates him in an international web of 19th‐century experimental psychologists and its reconstruction opens new perspectives on the relation between philosophy, psychology, and epistemology. Moreover, this reception testifies to a heretofore overlooked strand of influence of Wundt on North American experimental psychology. The notion of unconscious inferences, of which Hermann von Helmholtz is usually considered the chief exponent, becomes the backbone of Peirce's theory of perception mostly because of the affinity between Wundt's early philosophy of mind and Peirce's logic‐mediated approach to psychology. |
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spelling | pubmed-97966522022-12-30 Unconscious inferences in perception in early experimental psychology: From Wundt to Peirce Cristalli, Claudia J Hist Behav Sci Original Articles What are unconscious inferences in psychology? This article investigates their journey from the early philosophical psychology of Wilhelm Wundt (1832–1920) to the experimental psychology of the American pragmatist Charles S. Peirce (1839–1914). Peirce's reception of Wundt's early works situates him in an international web of 19th‐century experimental psychologists and its reconstruction opens new perspectives on the relation between philosophy, psychology, and epistemology. Moreover, this reception testifies to a heretofore overlooked strand of influence of Wundt on North American experimental psychology. The notion of unconscious inferences, of which Hermann von Helmholtz is usually considered the chief exponent, becomes the backbone of Peirce's theory of perception mostly because of the affinity between Wundt's early philosophy of mind and Peirce's logic‐mediated approach to psychology. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2022-07-06 2022 /pmc/articles/PMC9796652/ /pubmed/35791907 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jhbs.22211 Text en © 2022 The Authors. Journal of The History of the Behavioral Sciences published by Wiley Periodicals LLC. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/This is an open access article under the terms of the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) License, which permits use and distribution in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non‐commercial and no modifications or adaptations are made. |
spellingShingle | Original Articles Cristalli, Claudia Unconscious inferences in perception in early experimental psychology: From Wundt to Peirce |
title | Unconscious inferences in perception in early experimental psychology: From Wundt to Peirce |
title_full | Unconscious inferences in perception in early experimental psychology: From Wundt to Peirce |
title_fullStr | Unconscious inferences in perception in early experimental psychology: From Wundt to Peirce |
title_full_unstemmed | Unconscious inferences in perception in early experimental psychology: From Wundt to Peirce |
title_short | Unconscious inferences in perception in early experimental psychology: From Wundt to Peirce |
title_sort | unconscious inferences in perception in early experimental psychology: from wundt to peirce |
topic | Original Articles |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9796652/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35791907 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jhbs.22211 |
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