UN PROBLÈME D’ACOUSTIQUE PSYCHOLOGIQUE. By _L. Dauriac_.
LES ORIGINES DE NOTRE STRUCTURE INTELLECTUELLE ET CÉRÉBRALE.
II. L’ÉVOLUTIONNISME. By _A. Fouillée_.
LÉONARD DE VINCI ARTISTE ET SAVANT. By _G. Séailles_.
SUR LES DESSINS D’ENFANTS. By _J. Passy_.
SUR UN CAS D’INHIBITION PSYCHIQUE. By _A. Binet_.
CONTENTS: January, 1892. No. 193.
LE PROBLÈME DE LA VIE. By _Dunan_.
LA MALADIE DU PESSIMISME. By _B. Pérez_.
PHILOSOPHES ESPAGNOLS DE CUBA: F. VARELA, J. DE LA LUZ. By
_J.-M. Guardia_.
VARIÉTÉS: LE PROBLÈME D’ACHILLE. By _J. Mouret_.
CONTENTS: February, 1892. No. 194.
LES MOUVEMENTS DE MANÈGE CHEZ LES INSECTES. By _A. Binet_.
LE PROBLÈME DE LA VIE (2nd article). By _Dunan_.
PHILOSOPHES ESPAGNOLS DE CUBA (concluded). _J.-M. Guardia_.
REVUE GÉNÉRALE: JUSTICE ET SOCIALISME, D’APRÈS LES PUBLICATIONS
RÉCENTES. By _Belot_.
One of the problems of the unique and great work of Carl Stumpf’s
“Tonpsychologie” is the subject of L. Dauriac’s essay. The question
is when several sounds enter the ear at the same time, the plurality
of which is not directly known, do you have your information through
an inner sense? Does every unit of the irritation correspond to a
distinct unit of sensation? Is there in consciousness a simultaneousness
of sensations similarly as outside of consciousness there is a
simultaneousness of vibrations? M. Dauriac maintains that Stumpf’s
question can be answered only on the ground of metaphysical postulates,
and if preconceived solutions are to be excluded, it must be considered
as insoluble.
Alfred Fouillée, in his second article on the origin of our intellectual
and cerebral structure, which treats on evolutionism, comes to the
conclusion that the hypothesis which in the most simple way explains the
agreement of thoughts and objects is the doctrine of a radical unity
generally called Monism.
J. Passy notes certain characteristic and psychologically interesting
features of the drawings of children.
M. A. Binet presents two physiognomical pictures of the same face, one
representing disgust or scorn, the other a good-humored and happy smile.
The upper parts of both faces are exactly alike and yet the eyes of
the former look disdainful while the very same eyes of the latter are
full of jest and merriment. This is the fact. M. Binet psychologically
interprets the fact as a phenomenon of automatic inhibition. The fact is
interesting, but its interpretation seems doubtful.
Charles Dunan discusses the metaphysical aspect of the problem of life.
B. Pérez’s article is a contribution to pathological psychology with
special reference to M. Magalhâes’s work on the subject. Pessimism,
M. Pérez says, is a disease only if exaggerated, yet he believes that
medico-psychological studies which consider the relation between the
physical system and morality are very helpful even if carried too far.
M. J.-M. Guardia’s article will have a special interest for Americans.
Three men arose in Spain of late, Valentin Almirall, M. L. Mallada,
and J.-M. Escudor, who spoke bold and hard words of truth to their
country. Cuba is the hen that lays golden eggs for Spain, but the Cubans
are treated with great contempt in Spain; and yet the Spaniards are
by no means their intellectual superiors, for while Spain is poor in
philosophy, Cuba is the only country of Latin America where philosophy
has taken root. M. Guardia sketches in the first article the history and
philosophy of Don Félix Varélay y Moralès who is the harbinger of the
other Spanish-Cuban philosopher, José de la Luz. The second article in
the February number treats of the latter (1800-1862) whom Guardia calls
the master.
George Mouret with reference to Frontera’s book on Zeno’s argument
against motion makes a few remarks concerning the Eleatic sophism about
Achilles and the tortoise.
An injury of a thalamus opticus produces in horses and other animals
the effect of their making rotatory movements when intending to walk
straight on. Forel proved that a similar effect is produced in ants by a
lesion of one of their lobes. M. Binet publishes in the present essay his
experiments on certain water-beetles, exhibiting diagrams of their normal
and abnormal walk. (Paris: Félix Alcan.)
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ZEITSCHRIFT FUR PSYCHOLOGIE UND PHYSIOLOGIE DER SINNESORGANE. Vols. II
and III.
CONTENTS: November, 1891. No. 6.
UEBER BRÜCKES THEORIE DES KÖRPERLICHEN SEHENS. By Dr. _C. du
Bois-Reymond_.
MEIN SCHLUSSWORT GEGEN WUNDT. By _C. Stumpf_.
ERWIDERUNG. By _O. Flügel_.