Phenomenology and Experimental Psychology in the Early Twentieth Century

• Autor(a) principal: DeCastro, Thiago Gomes
• Data de Publicação: 2015
• Outros Autores: Gomes, William Barbosa
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Psicologia (Universidade de Brasília. Online)
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.unb.br/index.php/revistaptp/article/view/18617
• topic: Artigo Teórico; Fenomenologia; Psicologia experimental; História; Método; Phenomenology; Experimental psychology; History; Method

This study examines the relationship between phenomenology and experimental psychology in the early twentiethcentury to define origin, specificity and scope of the term experimental phenomenology. It begins with the statement that theterm experimental phenomenology is associated with Carl Stumpf in Berlin. Next, the troubled relation between Husserl andthe Departmentof Psychology at the University of Göttingen is described. Then, the fruitful influence of phenomenology onexperimental psychology at the University of Würzburg and on Wertheimer’s Gestalt psychology is discussed. Experimentalphenomenology continued by the mid-twentieth century with repercussions on James Gibson´s ecological psychology. AlthoughHusserl has distanced himself from experimental psychology, experimental phenomenology proceeded without his consent,subsidizing contemporary cognitive sciences and neurosciences.