Die Erscheinungen und Gesetze des organischen Lebens

Treviranus, G. R.

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“…In addition, he points out that the identity theory fails to clarify the connection between the all‐encompassing life force and individual physiological forces. Nevertheless, the notion used to be quite popular among physiologists, such as Gottfried Reinhold Treviranus (1831/1833) and Johann Heinrich Ferdinand von Autenrieth (1836). It seemed indeed to provide the advantage of explaining how things are moved and shaped from within, as well as a way out from the model of the world populated by mere objects on which external forces act.…”

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Rudolph Hermann Lotze's philosophically informed psychology

Vagnetti

2023

J History Behavioral Science

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This essay deals with four main topics: the notion of philosophical psychology; the idea that physical events and mental events cannot be compared to one another; psychophysical mechanism; and the theory of local signs. These are all key elements in the Medicinische Psychologie of Rudolph Hermann Lotze (1817‒1881). By philosophical psychology, Lotze understands not only the collection of experimental data regarding physiological and mental states but also their philosophical processing outlining an interpretation of the real nature of the mind‒body connection. Within this framework, Lotze introduces the psychophysical mechanism as based on a key philosophical idea: mind and body are incomparable, but, nevertheless, they are in reciprocal relation (Wechselwirkung). In virtue of said special relation, movements that take place in the mental sphere of reality are transferred or translated in the bodily sphere and vice versa. This rearrangement (Umgestaltung) from one sphere of reality to the other is termed by Lotze “transformation to equivalent.” Through the concept of equivalence, Lotze supports the idea that the mind and the body form an organic whole. However, psychophysical mechanisms should not be seen as not a fixed series of physical changes followed by an equally fixed series of mental changes: physical changes are “read,” organized, and then transformed by the mind into something purely mental. This, in turn, produces new mechanical force and more physical changes. Lotze's legacy and long‐term impact is finally read against the background of his contributions.

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Rudolph Hermann Lotze's philosophically informed psychology

Vagnetti

2023

J History Behavioral Science

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“…He considered that the brain was comprised of cylindrical cells arranged in parallel. In his posthumously published volume on the inner structure of the retina, Treviranus (1837) presented drawings based on vertical and horizontal microscopic sections of cells in the visual systems of many species. His diagram of the crow's retina (Fig.…”

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Microscopic anatomy of sensory receptors

Wade

2019

Journal of the History of the Neurosciences

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Experiences following stimulation of the senses have been recorded for millennia and they could be related to the gross anatomy of the sense organs. Examination of their microanatomy was to await the development of achromatic microscopes in the early 19 th century. Among the microscopic structures that were isolated and described were specialized sensory cells, called receptors, and they could be related to the stimuli that excited them. Those located in well-defined sense organs (like eyes, ears, nose and tongue) were named on the basis of their morphology, whereas the receptors in or beneath the surface of the skin were generally named after those who first described them. Illustrations of early representations of sensory receptors are combined with 'perceptual portraits' of the microanatomists who described them.

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On the mechanism of respiration in certain Orthoptera

Lee

1925

J. Exp. Zool.

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Die Erscheinungen und Gesetze des organischen Lebens

Cited by 9 publications

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Rudolph Hermann Lotze's philosophically informed psychology

Rudolph Hermann Lotze's philosophically informed psychology

Microscopic anatomy of sensory receptors

On the mechanism of respiration in certain Orthoptera

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