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Völkerpsychologie and the Origins of Hermann Cohen’s Antipsychologism (2020)

Edgar, Scott (Author)

HOPOS
Volume: 10
Issue: 1
Pages: 254-273

URI: http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/707910

DOI: 10.1086/707910

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Controversies and disputes Psychology Völkerpsychologie 20th century, early 19th century Cohen, Hermann

Some commentators on Hermann Cohen have remarked on what they take to be a puzzle about the origins of his mature antipsychologism. When Cohen was young, he studied a kind of psychology, the Völkerpsychologie of Moritz Lazarus and Heymann Steinthal, and he wrote apparently psychologistic accounts of knowledge almost up until the moment he first articulated his antipsychologistic neo-Kantianism. To be sure, Cohen’s mature antipsychologism does constitute a rejection of certain central commitments of Völkerpsychologie. However, the relation between Völkerpsychologie and Cohen’s mature antipsychologism is not one of straightforward opposition. This article argues that Cohen had significantly less distance to travel than it appears to get from his early Völkerpsychologie to his mature antipsychologism. In particular, this article argues that Cohen always had an antipsychologistic account of knowledge, even during the period when he was studying Völkerpsychologie, and, further, that key features of his Völkerpsychologie partly shaped his mature account of knowledge. Finally, the article identifies how Cohen’s views did change over the transition from his völkerpsychological period to his later antipsychologism. It thus identifies what changes in Cohen’s views do need to be explained.

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