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Image 5 of The relation of experimental psychology to philosophy. Lecture delivered before the Royal Belgian ... THE RELATION OF Experimental Psychology TO PHILOSOPHY. LECTURE DELIVERED BEFORE THE ROYAL BELGIAN ACADEMY BY Mgr. desire merger, Professor of Philosophy at Louvain, and Director of the Institut Sufdrieur de Philosophic TRANSLATED...- Contributor: Mercier, Désiré - Wirth, Edmund J.
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Image 6 of The relation of experimental psychology to philosophy. Lecture delivered before the Royal Belgian ... Btbfl ©bstat OWEN McGUIRE, Ph.D., D.D., Censor Deputatus. Umprfmatur, ^JNO. M. FARLEY, Administrator of New York, New York, July i, 1902. library of] cowgress, :J902 £?OCa No, copy g. Copyright, 1902, by...- Contributor: Mercier, Désiré - Wirth, Edmund J.
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Image 7 of The relation of experimental psychology to philosophy. Lecture delivered before the Royal Belgian ... TRANSLATOR S PREFACE. Experimental Psychology, the youngest of the natural sciences, is a product of our own days. In a few years it has grown to such an extent as to leave...- Contributor: Mercier, Désiré - Wirth, Edmund J.
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Image 8 of The relation of experimental psychology to philosophy. Lecture delivered before the Royal Belgian ... 4 Translators Preface. not boast of a psychological laboratory, and consequently we number more such laboratories in America than there are in the rest of the world put together. In view of...- Contributor: Mercier, Désiré - Wirth, Edmund J.
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Image 9 of The relation of experimental psychology to philosophy. Lecture delivered before the Royal Belgian ... Translator s Preface. 5 only through his French works, it may not be amiss to say a few words con- cerning him and his method in philos- ophy. Soon after our Holy...- Contributor: Mercier, Désiré - Wirth, Edmund J.
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Image 10 of The relation of experimental psychology to philosophy. Lecture delivered before the Royal Belgian ... 6 Translator s Preface. of Belgium to erect an institute after the model of the Roman schools for the more thorough teaching of Thomistic philosophy.* The bishops carrying out the wish of...- Contributor: Mercier, Désiré - Wirth, Edmund J.
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Image 11 of The relation of experimental psychology to philosophy. Lecture delivered before the Royal Belgian ... Translator s Preface. 7 sought in a return to St. Thomas, the great doctor of the Middle Age. He saw too that the return which was be- ing made had for some...- Contributor: Mercier, Désiré - Wirth, Edmund J.
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Image 12 of The relation of experimental psychology to philosophy. Lecture delivered before the Royal Belgian ... 8 Translator s Preface. Just as philosophy without being in- different to theology was to be studied for its own sake, so also science. The atmosphere of our age is preeminently a...- Contributor: Mercier, Désiré - Wirth, Edmund J.
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Image 13 of The relation of experimental psychology to philosophy. Lecture delivered before the Royal Belgian ... Translator s Preface. 9 and apparatus such, as no other Catholic college can show in connection with a philosophical course.* He will find that no question of philosophy is treated without an...- Contributor: Mercier, Désiré - Wirth, Edmund J.
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Image 14 of The relation of experimental psychology to philosophy. Lecture delivered before the Royal Belgian ... 10 Translator s Preface. articles on !N~eo-Thomism that have ap- peared in the Revue PMlosophique, the Annee Psychologique, the Kant- studien, the Zeitschrift fur PsycTio- logie und Physiologie der Sinnesor- gane, the...- Contributor: Mercier, Désiré - Wirth, Edmund J.
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Image 15 of The relation of experimental psychology to philosophy. Lecture delivered before the Royal Belgian ... THE RELATION OF EXPERIMENTAL PSY- CHOLOGY TO PHILOSOPHY. Ladies and Gentlemen: The subject of the lecture which I have the honor to deliver before you is The Relation of Experimental Psy- chology...- Contributor: Mercier, Désiré - Wirth, Edmund J.
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Image 16 of The relation of experimental psychology to philosophy. Lecture delivered before the Royal Belgian ... 12 The Relation of Do not the operations of the soul ema- nate from a principle that is spiritual in its nature, and therefore independent Are not its acts for this reason...- Contributor: Mercier, Désiré - Wirth, Edmund J.
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Image 17 of The relation of experimental psychology to philosophy. Lecture delivered before the Royal Belgian ... Experimental Psychology to Philosophy. 13 under the various faculties that elicited these acts. This comprised all the psychologist was supposed to do. Inner consciousness, made by these philosophers the sole means of...- Contributor: Mercier, Désiré - Wirth, Edmund J.
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Image 18 of The relation of experimental psychology to philosophy. Lecture delivered before the Royal Belgian ... 14 The Relation of can observe himself as a moral agent, because in that case lie can watch him- self under the action of the passions which animate him, precisely because the...- Contributor: Mercier, Désiré - Wirth, Edmund J.
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Image 19 of The relation of experimental psychology to philosophy. Lecture delivered before the Royal Belgian ... Experimental Psychology to Philosophy. 15 the one comprising matter, extended, divisible, subject to mechanical laws, and consequently knowable by ex- ternal observation; the other, simple beings, spiritual, endowed with thought, and knowable...- Contributor: Mercier, Désiré - Wirth, Edmund J.
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Image 20 of The relation of experimental psychology to philosophy. Lecture delivered before the Royal Belgian ... 16 The Relation of and mathematical. In 1842 Mayer dis- covered the mechanical equivalent of heat. It was found that a law of cor- relation ruled the forces of nature. No force...- Contributor: Mercier, Désiré - Wirth, Edmund J.
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Image 21 of The relation of experimental psychology to philosophy. Lecture delivered before the Royal Belgian ... Experimental Psychology to Philosophy. 17 Hauy gave Crystallography geometrical laws and promised to reform the science of Mineralogy. On the other hand, the relations of human Physiology to Chemistry and Physics became...- Contributor: Mercier, Désiré - Wirth, Edmund J.
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Image 22 of The relation of experimental psychology to philosophy. Lecture delivered before the Royal Belgian ... 18 The Relation of and gave hopes of results. In a word, all the natural sciences had received a new impetus. Everywhere, then, scientific discover- ies, and at times even superficial hypoth-...- Contributor: Mercier, Désiré - Wirth, Edmund J.
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Image 23 of The relation of experimental psychology to philosophy. Lecture delivered before the Royal Belgian ... Experimental Psychology to Philosophy. 19 would it not virtually abdicate its claims of being a science On tlie other hand, could it in any way attach itself to physics and mechanics and...- Contributor: Mercier, Désiré - Wirth, Edmund J.
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Image 24 of The relation of experimental psychology to philosophy. Lecture delivered before the Royal Belgian ... 20 The Relation of I. In the first transports of joy at the birth of the new science those that had taken it upon themselves to popularize it misrepresented its purpose and...- Contributor: Mercier, Désiré - Wirth, Edmund J.
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Image 25 of The relation of experimental psychology to philosophy. Lecture delivered before the Royal Belgian ... Experimental Psychology to Philosophy. 21 ceived by some with satisfaction and by others with mistrust, for no other reason than that it was considered incompat- ible with spiritualistic philosophy. The object of...- Contributor: Mercier, Désiré - Wirth, Edmund J.
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Image 26 of The relation of experimental psychology to philosophy. Lecture delivered before the Royal Belgian ... 22 The Relation of Since, then, psychology treats of mental states in themselves, it must describe their quality, quantity, tonal- ity, and dynamogeny. The study of the quantity of mental states places...- Contributor: Mercier, Désiré - Wirth, Edmund J.
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Image 27 of The relation of experimental psychology to philosophy. Lecture delivered before the Royal Belgian ... Eocperimental Psychology to Philosophy. 23 tried to turn the result of the experi- ments made by Weber on the quantity of sensation, as interpreted and erected into a law by Fechner, against...- Contributor: Mercier, Désiré - Wirth, Edmund J.
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Image 28 of The relation of experimental psychology to philosophy. Lecture delivered before the Royal Belgian ... 24 The Relation of is not an absolute one, but a relative one. Thus if the initial weight causing a sensation of pressure be 1, we must add to make the difference...- Contributor: Mercier, Désiré - Wirth, Edmund J.
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Image 29 of The relation of experimental psychology to philosophy. Lecture delivered before the Royal Belgian ... Experimental Psychology to Philosophy, 25 nal causes of error are being more and more eliminated, the deviations from the law diminish so that we may now re- gard the exceptions as proving...- Contributor: Mercier, Désiré - Wirth, Edmund J.
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Image 30 of The relation of experimental psychology to philosophy. Lecture delivered before the Royal Belgian ... 26 The Relation of corresponding excitant must increase in geometrical progression. This mathematical interpretation of Weber s law seems defective. It would make ns believe that the psychologist compares the gradual increase...- Contributor: Mercier, Désiré - Wirth, Edmund J.
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Image 31 of The relation of experimental psychology to philosophy. Lecture delivered before the Royal Belgian ... Experimental Psychology to Philosophy. 27 fact the experiments of Weber have no such results to show. The experi- menter asks the subject whether he has perceived a sensation differing from the one...- Contributor: Mercier, Désiré - Wirth, Edmund J.
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Image 32 of The relation of experimental psychology to philosophy. Lecture delivered before the Royal Belgian ... 28 The Relation of one conclusion, namely: The series of mental states perceived by conscious- ness is subordinate to physical excit- ants, which stand in a constant and definite relation to one...- Contributor: Mercier, Désiré - Wirth, Edmund J.
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Image 33 of The relation of experimental psychology to philosophy. Lecture delivered before the Royal Belgian ... Experimental Psychology to Philosophy. 29 view, their association, the emotions that result in consequence of them, all are so many mental states whose sub- stratum is the nervous substance. If it is...- Contributor: Mercier, Désiré - Wirth, Edmund J.
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Image 34 of The relation of experimental psychology to philosophy. Lecture delivered before the Royal Belgian ... 30 The Relation of lightning, of the pricking of the hand or foot, is perceived instantaneously. Still psychologists measure in hundredths of a second the exact time it takes from the moment...- Contributor: Mercier, Désiré - Wirth, Edmund J.
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Image 35 of The relation of experimental psychology to philosophy. Lecture delivered before the Royal Belgian ... Experimental Psychology to Philosophy. 31 takes place in a substratum which is extended, resisting, and complex, just as other phenomena of nature do. Further, as every interval is employed in transmitting and...- Contributor: Mercier, Désiré - Wirth, Edmund J.
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Image 36 of The relation of experimental psychology to philosophy. Lecture delivered before the Royal Belgian ... 32 The Relation of are not operations of an immaterial soul, but of a living body. They imply func- tions of the nervous substance. These functions bring with them changes of various...- Contributor: Mercier, Désiré - Wirth, Edmund J.
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Image 37 of The relation of experimental psychology to philosophy. Lecture delivered before the Royal Belgian ... Experimental Psychology to Philosophy. 33 gible. Sensation, differentiation of psy- chical acts, emotion, have no sense if they are only physical and not also psychical acts, modifications of my inner consciousness, subordinate...- Contributor: Mercier, Désiré - Wirth, Edmund J.
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Image 38 of The relation of experimental psychology to philosophy. Lecture delivered before the Royal Belgian ... 34 The Relation of elation of all psychology is conscious- ness. The physical conditions of conscious life are the constant object of research. The moment the psycholo- gist studies psychical states scientifi-...- Contributor: Mercier, Désiré - Wirth, Edmund J.
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Image 39 of The relation of experimental psychology to philosophy. Lecture delivered before the Royal Belgian ... Experimental Psychology to Philosophy. 35 may be summed up in the statement of the law of Weber. We have indicated the results of measurements applied to the duration of psychic acts in...- Contributor: Mercier, Désiré - Wirth, Edmund J.
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Image 40 of The relation of experimental psychology to philosophy. Lecture delivered before the Royal Belgian ... 36 The Relation of by some sensitive nerve-centre, and consequently has some influence on motor-centers and on the muscles. Hence it varies the dilatation of the arteries, the volume of the bodily...- Contributor: Mercier, Désiré - Wirth, Edmund J.
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