TY - JOUR
AU - TITCHENER, E. B.
AB - 31 8 BE VIEWS AND NOTICES OP BOOKS. In the treatmentof sensation, extension (Aiisdehnung) is not in- cluded in the list of attributes (I. 85; but. cf. 109). The author decides in favour of the physiological interpretation of Weber's law, but, strangely enough,^-does not mention G. E- Muller in connexion with it. The account of chronometrical results is hardly adequate. One has no wish to carp upon this, matter; but it is surely misleading to give .125" as simple re- action-time, without naming the sense for which it holds, or; stating that it represents the "muscular" form. The number ' itself seems to point to hearing-experiments. The account of the "theory of unity of composition of mind" would be,better placed after the discussion of the' organic theory of mental unity in the second volume. Prof. Baldwin has taken a wide view of his science. He includes not only the two psychologies proper, empirical and rationalistic, but deals, in connexion with them, with logic, theory of knowledge and metaphysics. With those who hold that there is but one psychology, the empirical and experimental, he would agree to differ; they do not constitute the tribunal whose decision upon his work he 
TI - Reviews and Notices of Books
JO - Brain
DO - 10.1093/brain/15.2.318
DA - 1892-01-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/reviews-and-notices-of-books-91QyJW7vvV
SP - 318
EP - 322
VL - 15
IS - 2
DP - DeepDyve
ER -