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Also Known As Gustav Theodor Fechner
Born April 19, 1801 • Germany
Died November 18, 1887 (aged 86) • Leipzig • Germany
Notable Works “Elements of Psychophysics”
Subjects Of Study Weber’s law • perception • sensation
Helmholtz.
Hermann von Helmholtz
German scientist and philosopher
Oswald Külpe
German psychologist and philosopher
George Berkeley
George Berkeley
Irish philosopher
Condillac, engraving by Pierre-Nicolas Ransonnette
Étienne Bonnot de Condillac
French philosopher
Ernst Mach
Austrian physicist
James J. Gibson
American psychologist and philosopher
Ladd
George Trumbull Ladd
American psychologist and philosopher
H.H. Price
British philosopher
Joy Paul Guilford
American psychologist
Immanuel Kant
Immanuel Kant
German philosopher
Karl Marx
Karl Marx
German philosopher
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
German philosopher
Friedrich Nietzsche
Friedrich Nietzsche
German philosopher
Martin Heidegger
Martin Heidegger
German philosopher
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
German philosopher and mathematician
Edmund Husserl
Edmund Husserl
German philosopher
Friedrich Schiller, painting by Anton Graff, c. 1785.
Friedrich Schiller
German writer
Martin Buber
Martin Buber
German religious philosopher
Gotthold Lessing, detail of an oil painting by Georg May, 1768; in the Gleimhaus, Halberstadt, Ger.
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
German author
Karl Jaspers
Karl Jaspers
German philosopher

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