Wilhelm Wundt in History

• 1 Wundt before Leipzig.- A Question of Lifestyle.- Early Childhood and Family.- Boyhood and Early Youth.- Choice of a Career.- Student Years.- Postgraduate Training.- The Iodine Affair.- The Localization Problem.- Some Fresh Frustrations.- Controversy with Hermann Munk.- Assistant to Helmholtz.- The Beiträge.- The Introduction on Method.- Controversy with Ewald Hering.- The Swiftest Thought.- Wundt’s “Fireside Conversations”.- Early Political Activity.- Lectures on Psychology.- Three Nonpsychological Books.- The Complication Pendulum.- Judgments on Haeckel and Helmholtz.- “Physiological Psychology” Arrives.- Research in Neurophysiology.- Hall, Wundt, and Bernstein.- Academic Mobility.- What the Reviewers Said.- The Inaugurations and Beyond.- Summary.- References.- 2 Wundt and the Temptations of Psychology.- Does Wundt Matter?.- Traditions and Their Temptations.- The Mechanistic Temptation.- The Temptations of Intellectualism.- The Temptation of Individualism.- Postscript: Pitfalls of Wundt Scholarship.- References.- 3 The Unknown Wundt: Drive, Apperception, and Volition.- Wundt’s Opposition to the Theories of Lotze and Bain.- From Impulse to Choice: The Development of Volitional Activity.- The Apperception Concept and the Experimental Context.- Some Early Reactions to Wundt’s Theories.- References.- 4 A Wundt Primer: The Operating Characteristics of Consciousness.- Presentations of Wundt.- Wundt’s “Actuality Principle”—The Heart of Controversy.- The Principle of “Creative Synthesis” (Schöpferische Synthese).- The Influential Wundtian School of Psycholinguistics (Sprachpsychologie).- The Emotion System.- The Volition System.- Final Days.- References.- 5 Wundt and the Americans: From Flirtation to Abandonment.- The Americanization Process.- TheFunctionalist—Structuralist Debate.- Wundtian Influence and James Mark Baldwin.- Wundt and Darwinism in America.- Edward Wheeler Scripture: The Yale Laboratory and the New Psychology.- Addendum.- References.- 6 Reaction-time Experiments in Wundt’s Institute and Beyond.- The Heart of the Work of the Leipzig Institute in the 1880s.- Reaction-time Studies before the Leipzig Institute.- Reaction-time Studies in the Leipzig Institute.- Ludwig Lange’s Approach: Muscular vs. Sensorial Reaction.- Social Organization of Research in the Leipzig Institute: The Set-Up for Experiments.- Leipzig Psychology Spreads in Europe, 1885–1895.- Münsterberg’s Dissent.- Wundt’s Allies in Germany: Kraepelin and Martius.- Külpe’s Rejection of the Subtraction Method.- Structuralism and Functionalism.- Wundt’s Tridimensional Theory of Emotions.- Reaction Times after 1900.- References.- 7 Laboratories for Experimental Psychology: Göttingen’s Ascendancy over Leipzig in the 1890s.- Introduction: Did Wundt’s Laboratory Lead the Experimental Movement in Psychology in the Early 1890s?.- “Göttingen . . . Second Only to Leipzig”: I Don’t Think So!.- What Is a Laboratory?.- Krohn and Henri as Evaluators of Laboratories.- The Equipment of the Laboratories.- German Equipment Catalogs.- The Zimmermann Catalog.- The Diederichs Firm.- Spindler & Hoyer Catalogs.- Determining How the Apparatus Worked.- Conflicts between G. E. Müller and Wilhelm Wundt.- Wundt’s Rejection of Müller’s Memory Apparatus.- Müller and Wundt on the Proper Measurement of Reaction Time.- Calibrating the Hipp Chronoscope.- Münsterberg and RT Studies.- Edgell’s Analysis of RT Studies.- The Accuracy of RT Measurement.- Evaluation of the Productivity of the Two Laboratories.- What Remains to Be Said.-References.- 8 The Wundt Collection in Japan.- A Brief History of the Wundt Collection.- “The Story of the Wundt Collection” (An Excerpt from Daifuku-cho).- The Current Status of the Wundt Collection.- References, with Annotations.- Bibliography of Wilhelm Wundt’s Writings, Compiled by Eleonore Wundt.- Writings of Wilhelm Wundt, by Year.- Name Index.

'In all, then, this is an interesting collection, with sufficient new material to justify its acquisition by libraries and scholars, even those that possess the earlier book.' Journal of the History of Behavioral Sciences, 39:3 (2003)