From the INTRODUCTORY. EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY IN FRANCE. It is known that of late years, in France, a great scientific movement has come about in favor of experimental psychology. While the professors of our High Schools and Universities are continuing to teach an antiquated science, whose only method is that of introspection, there has arisen on all sides in the philosophical reviews, and even in journals strictly medic*l, a body of work in which the investigation of mental phenomena is conducted according to the ...
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From the INTRODUCTORY. EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY IN FRANCE. It is known that of late years, in France, a great scientific movement has come about in favor of experimental psychology. While the professors of our High Schools and Universities are continuing to teach an antiquated science, whose only method is that of introspection, there has arisen on all sides in the philosophical reviews, and even in journals strictly medic*l, a body of work in which the investigation of mental phenomena is conducted according to the methods of natural science. Incontestably, the forerunner of this activity in psychological inquiry was M. Taine, who published in 1869 an important treatise upon "The Understanding." With remarkable penetration M. Taine foresaw, to a certain extent, the most important results obtained in recent years. Thus, the entire chapter upon "Images" may still be consulted with profit. The real inaugurator of the psychological movement proper, is M. Ribot. The psychologists of France owe much to M. Ribot. Without him, without the Review* which he founded, without the work and results of foreign* investigation which he has made known in France, many scientists would never have thought of devoting their attention to psychological research. Further, by instituting a chair at the Sorbonne, and subsequently, at a more recent date, at the College de France, M. Ribot has helped to give an official consecration, in our country, to the study of experimental psychology. Finally, some few years past, in conjunction with M. Charcot, M. Ribot founded a Society of Physiological Psychology which now counts more than fifty active members. In drawing together men of different professions, in bringing the psychologist into communication with the physiologist, the physician, the alienist, the mathematician, and the linguist, that society has fathered a great number of important productions and substantially contributed to the development of the science of psychology....
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