Long 19th c. · 1801–1887
Who did Gustav Fechner influence?
Students and legacy
Founded psychophysics and a panpsychist daylight view: mind is everywhere.
Gustav Fechner influenced William James. That is 1 line of the 448 documented lines of influence between the 279 thinkers on this map.
Who was Gustav Fechner?
Gustav Fechner was a German physicist, philosopher and experimental psychologist who founded psychophysics, the measurement of the mind.
He showed that sensation grows with the logarithm of a stimulus's physical intensity, the relation now known as the Weber–Fechner law. His work inspired many scientists and philosophers of the 20th century.
Summarized from the lead of the Wikipedia article.
Who did Gustav Fechner influence?
1 thinker on this map draws directly on Gustav Fechner.
- William James 1842–1910
Two steps away from Gustav Fechner
The second generation
- Through William James: John Dewey, Kitarō Nishida, Ludwig Wittgenstein
Contemporaries of Gustav Fechner
Thinkers on this map born within 25 years of Gustav Fechner, with no direct line between them.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803–1882
- Auguste Comte 1798–1857
- Ludwig Feuerbach 1804–1872
- Aleksey Khomyakov 1804–1860
- Alexis de Tocqueville 1805–1859
- John Stuart Mill 1806–1873
- Max Stirner 1806–1856
- Ivan Kireyevsky 1806–1856
Gustav Fechner by the numbers
- Direct influences
- 0
- Direct followers
- 1
- Thinkers upstream
- 0
- Thinkers downstream
- 14
- Wikipedia languages
- 57 — #29 of 47 among 19th-century philosophers
- Card rarity
- Epic
Questions about Gustav Fechner
- Who influenced Gustav Fechner?
- No earlier thinker on this map is recorded as a direct influence on Gustav Fechner.
- Who did Gustav Fechner influence?
- William James.
- When did Gustav Fechner live?
- 1801–1887. The map files Gustav Fechner under the long 19th century.
- How rare is the Gustav Fechner card?
- Wikipedia carries an article on Gustav Fechner in 57 languages, which makes it an Epic card. Legendary starts at 100 languages, Epic at 50 and Rare at 25.
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