Władysław Heinrich
Władysław Heinrich was a Polish historian of philosophy, psychologist, professor at Kraków University and member of the Polish Academy of Learning.Life
Władysław Heinrich studied mathematics, the natural sciences and philosophy. In philosophy he was a student of Richard Avenarius at the University of Zurich and applied his radical positivism to psychology: Heinrich pointed out that the new experimental psychology of the time was based on metaphysical concepts and premises, on constructions and introjections. In opposition to it, he proposed a psychology based on pure experiment.
Settling in Kraków, Heinrich conducted research in this spirit. He authored the first report in experimental psychology to be presented to the Academy of Learning, O wahaniach natężenia zaledwie dostrzegalnych wrażeń.
Heinrich worked at Kraków University in the physics department, then took over a chair of psychology and philosophy. He was also active in the history of philosophy. Above all, he was the first in Kraków to develop the new radical empiricist philosophy connected with the natural sciences. He was concerned especially with methodological questions, and was the first to present these at the Academy of Learning.Works
- Die moderne physiologische Psychologie in Deutschland
- O wahaniach w natężeniu zaledwie dostrzegalnych wrażeń optycznych i akustycznych
- Przegląd badań nad wrażeniami barwnymi
- Teorie i wyniki badań psychologicznych
- Psychologia uczuć
- Johannes Scotus Eriugena i Spinoza
- Filozofia grecka do Platona
- Stereoskopia monokularna
- Les fonctions des capillaires et la concentration de l'attention
- Notes sur les reactions de capillaires pendant l'excitation des centres visuels de l'ecorce cerebrale
