Gustav Fechner 1801 – 1887
Gustav Fechner (1801 – 1887) was a German philosopher of the Modern era, associated with Continental Philosophy.
Gustav Theodor Fechner was a German experimental psychologist, philosopher, and the principal founder of psychophysics, the systematic study of the relations between physical stimuli and subjective experience. Originally trained in medicine and physics, he held a chair at Leipzig until a long period of illness drove him toward speculative philosophy. His Elements of Psychophysics, published in 1860, established what is now known as Fechner's law and the basic experimental methods of the new psychology, while his Zend-Avesta and other works defended a panpsychist metaphysics in which all matter, from plants and stars to the earth itself, is in some degree ensouled.
Key facts
- Nationality
- German
- Era
- Modern
- Movements
- Continental Philosophy
Selected quotes
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Attributed to Gustav Fechner:
“The same mathematical laws that govern bodies also govern minds.”
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Attributed to Gustav Fechner:
“What is true of the body is mirrored in the soul.”
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Attributed to Gustav Fechner:
“The whole earth is alive; we are its conscious moments.”
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Attributed to Gustav Fechner:
“Psychophysics is the science of the relations between body and mind.”
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Attributed to Gustav Fechner:
“Day-thought reveals what night-thought conceals.”
Gustav Fechner by topic
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- Gustav Theodor Fechner was a German experimental psychologist, philosopher, and the principal founder of psychophysics, the systematic study of the relations between physical stimuli and subjective experience.
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