Wilhelm Wundt

Wilhelm Wundt (1832 to 1920), whose full name was Wilhelm Maximilian Wundt, was a German physiologist, psychologist and philosopher and the principal founder of experimental psychology. In 1879 he opened the first formal laboratory of psychological experimentation, at Leipzig, where he trained a generation of researchers from Europe and the United States. His Principles of Physiological Psychology and Outlines of Psychology set out a program for a scientific psychology, while his ten-volume Völkerpsychologie applied psychological method to the historical study of language, myth and culture. He stood self-consciously within the broader German philosophical tradition of his time, and he is placed here among the philosophers of mind because his psychology grew out of that tradition and never fully left it.