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Unconscious inferences in perception in early experimental psychology: From Wundt to Peirce (2022)

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Experimental psychology Senses and sensation; perception 19th century United States Peirce, Charles Sanders Wundt, Wilhelm Max

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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Authors & Contributors
Schmidgen, Henning
Araujo, Saulo de Freitas
Athy, Jeremy
Ayala, Christopher
Bennett, M. R.
Borawski, Steven
Journals
History of Psychology
Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences
Science and Education
British Journal for the History of Science
History and Technology
History of the Human Sciences
Publishers
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT
Duke University Press
Kluwer Academic
MIT Press
Wiley-Blackwell
Concepts
Experimental psychology
Psychology
Senses and sensation; perception
Cognition
Physiology
Experiments and experimentation
People
Wundt, Wilhelm Max
Hirsch, Adolphe
James, William
Bekhterev, Vladimir Mikhailovich
Bozzi, Paolo
Brunswik, Egon
Time Periods
19th century
20th century, early
20th century
17th century
18th century
20th century, late
Places
United States
Germany
Great Britain
Australia
France
Russia
Institutions
Universität Leipzig
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