Article ID: CBB000930199

A Tale of Two Psychologies: The Høffding-Lehmann Controversy and the Establishment of Experimental Psychology at the University of Copenhagen (2009)

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Alfred Lehmann (1858-1921) was the pioneer of experimental psychology in Denmark. He established a laboratory of psychophysics in Copenhagen in 1886 after spending a winter in Wundt's laboratory. Philosophical psychology had been taught for the better part of the nineteenth century at the University of Copenhagen and had enjoyed a positivistic turn with the philosophers Harald Høffding (1843-1931) and Kristian Kroman (1846-1925). Shortly after establishing his laboratory, Lehmann criticized Høffding's theory of unmediated recognition, which led to a sharp dispute between them on the nature of recognition. It has been claimed that this was a direct cause of Lehmann's slow advance at the University of Copenhagen. Archival sources show that Høffding, though having a very different conception of psychology from Lehmann, was on most occasions supportive of Lehmann and thus played an important role in establishing experimental psychology at the University of Copenhagen. © 2009 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.

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Authors & Contributors
Robinson, David K.
Stephen W. Link
Fretwell, Erica
Bauchner, Joshua
Brown, Rupert
Klempe, Sven Hroar
Concepts
Psychology
Experimental psychology
Psychophysics
Senses and sensation; perception
Mind and body
Science and culture
Time Periods
19th century
20th century, late
20th century, early
18th century
Places
Germany
United States
Leipzig (Germany)
Italy
France
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