Wundt (Wundt) Wilhelm

(18.06.1832, Mannheim - 31.08.1920, Leipzig) - German psychologist, physiologist, and philosopher, founded in 1879. University of Leipzig in the world's first laboratory of experimental psychology. On the basis of an understanding of psychology as a science of immediate experience, . opened using a careful and strictly controlled introspection, . He tried to make 'simple elements' of consciousness (sensations and feelings of elementary) and establish the basic laws of spiritual life (eg, . law 'creative synthesis'),
. As a methodological standard was seen physiology, which is why the psychology of Wundt called 'physiological'. But the study of higher mental processes, in his opinion, should be carried out by other methods (analysis of myths, rituals, religious beliefs, language), which is reflected in his 10-volume work 'psychology of peoples'. Decision mind-body problem started from the hypothesis of parallelism. Education in Wundt were E. Titchener On. Kyulpe EF. Kruger, E. Meiman, G. Mц?nsterberg, VM. Bekhterev H. N. Lange, Art. Hall.