The Force of an Idea - Bog

1. Introduction: Reevaluating Christian Wolff''s Psychology
2. Who Was Afraid of Wolff''s Psychology? The Historical Context
3. The Origins and Development of Wolff''s Psychology in His German Writings

4. Empirical Psychology: Between Reason and Experience

5. Wolff and the Dogmas of Classical Rationalism

6. Wolff''s Idea of Psychometria

7. Wolff on Monadology and "Materialisterey"

8. Wolff and the Logic of the Human Mind

9. Image Composition as an Aesthetic-Epistemological Problem in Wolff''s Empirical Psychology

10. In-between Psychology and Moral Philosophy: Christian Wolff''s Principle of Natural Obligation

11. The Relation between Psychology and the Other Parts of Metaphysics: Ontology, Cosmology, and Theology
12. Development and Diffusion of Wolff''s Psychology through His Disciples and Followers

13. Wolffians and the Emancipation of Aesthetic Faculties

14. Wolff and the Beginnings of Experimental Psychology in the Eighteenth Century

15. The Science of the Soul and the Unyielding Architectonic: Kant versus Wolff on the Foundations of Psychology

16. Hegel and Wolff''s Psychologies
17. "The Most Excellent Psychological Systematist": Wolff''s Psychology in the Eyes of Wilhelm Wundt