Historians acknowledge Euclid and Fechner, respectively, as the founders of classical geometry and classical psychophysics. At all times, their ideas have been reference points and have shared the same destiny of being criticized, corrected, and even radically rejected, in their theoretical and methodological aspects and in their epistemological value. According to a model of measurement of magnitudes which goes back to Euclid, Fechner (1860) developed a theory for psychical magnitudes that opened a lively debate among numerous scholars. Fechner's attempt to apply the model proposed by Euclid to subjective sensation magnitudes-and the debate that followed-generated ideas and concepts that were destined to have rich developments in the psychological and (more generally) scientific field of the twentieth century and that still animate current psychophysics. © 2011 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.

Zudini, V. (2011). The Euclidean model of measurement in Fechner's psychophysics. JOURNAL OF THE HISTORY OF THE BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES, 47(1), 70-87 [10.1002/jhbs.20472].

The Euclidean model of measurement in Fechner's psychophysics

ZUDINI, VERENA
2011

Abstract

Historians acknowledge Euclid and Fechner, respectively, as the founders of classical geometry and classical psychophysics. At all times, their ideas have been reference points and have shared the same destiny of being criticized, corrected, and even radically rejected, in their theoretical and methodological aspects and in their epistemological value. According to a model of measurement of magnitudes which goes back to Euclid, Fechner (1860) developed a theory for psychical magnitudes that opened a lively debate among numerous scholars. Fechner's attempt to apply the model proposed by Euclid to subjective sensation magnitudes-and the debate that followed-generated ideas and concepts that were destined to have rich developments in the psychological and (more generally) scientific field of the twentieth century and that still animate current psychophysics. © 2011 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
Articolo in rivista - Articolo scientifico
Fechner; psicofisica; misurazione; Euclide
English
2011
47
1
70
87
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Zudini, V. (2011). The Euclidean model of measurement in Fechner's psychophysics. JOURNAL OF THE HISTORY OF THE BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES, 47(1), 70-87 [10.1002/jhbs.20472].
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