Article ID: CBB000831383

Kant and the Magnitude of Sensation: A Neglected Prologue to Modern Psychophysics (2008)

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Quantitative relations between the sensations and the stimuli that produce them are the domain of psychophysics, a branch of natural science not yet known at the time of Immanuel Kant (1724-1804). But Kant's philosophical doctrines of perception imply that sensations can be quantified. Accordingly, he proposed not only to consider the magnitude of both sensations and stimuli but also to work out an appropriate mathematics that would relate these magnitudes to each other. This part of Kant's work received almost no attention up to the present time although it contains some essential elements of modern psychophysics.

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Authors & Contributors
Boccaccini, Federico
Fretwell, Erica
Martinson, T. J.
Boer, Karin de
Prunea-Bretonnet, Tinca
Sodano, Joel P.
Concepts
Senses and sensation; perception
Philosophy
Psychology
Psychophysics
Philosophy of science
Science and culture
Time Periods
18th century
19th century
17th century
Early modern
16th century
Places
Germany
United States
Institutions
Marburg School of Philosophy
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