Alois Riehl was one of the six initiators of the “Declaration Against the Occupation of Philosophical Chairs with Representatives of Experimental Psychology”. Based on Riehl’s philosophical position in “The Principles of the Critical Philosophy” and further archive materials, we reconstruct the emergence of the declaration and the reasons why Riehl signed and defended it against critics. His motivation in support of the declaration was based on a clear conception of the distinction between empirical and experimental psychology and the restriction of philosophy to epistemology and philosophy of science. Starting from Horst Gundlach’s analysis on Wilhelm Windelband, this case study allows us to study in greater detail the heterogeneous relationship between neo-Kantianism and psychology.
Alois Riehl and the History of Psychology: The 1913 Declaration of the Philosophers
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