CFP: The Psychophysical Adventure. From Wolff to Behaviorism

Call for papers for the special issue of the series "Discipline filosofiche" on The Psychophysical Adventure. From Wolff to Behaviorism ed. by Chiara Russo Krauss and Giuseppe Guastamacchia. Expected pubblication: 2026.

Contributions on this topic are invited, encouraging the treatment of the following subjects:
1) the modern philosophical presuppositions of the psychophysical idea;
2) Wolffian psychometry and the eighteenth-century debate;
3) empirical psychology in Kant and Kantianism;
4) the psychological debate in nineteenth-century Germany from Herbart to Wundt;
5) the philosophy and psychology of Gustav Theodor Fechner;
6) psychophysics in France, the United States, England, and Italy;
7) the fortune and developments of psychophysics in the twentieth century;
8) philosophy of experimental psychology.