Adolf Horwicz (1831-1894) was the main public critic of Wilhelm Wundt's election for the chair of philosophy at the Universität Leipzig in 1875. Horwicz's book titled Psychologische Analysen auf physiologischer Grundlage published in 1872 had a great impact on his contemporaries. Two years later, Wundt published Grundzüge der physiologischen Psychologie (1874) and with Horwicz's books were recognized as the most representative books of the emerging physiological psychology. Finally, Horwicz and Wundt had a debate published in Vierteljahrsschrift für wissenschaftliche Philosophie during 1879-1880 in where Wundt affirmed that many of Horwicz's research results were deduced from preconceived ideas without using a clear method. For that reason, Horwicz considered that Wundt's criticisms were aimed at destroying his scientific reputation. The debate is the materialization of a long professional struggle that took place between professional philosophers and physiologists who began to occupy chairs of philosophy in the early 1870s. The debate can be summarized in the following questions: (a) Should psychology have as its main objective the search for a single physical-biological process to which all other psychical processes are reduced? (b) Should psychological research use an inductivist reasoning? (c) What should be the relationship between philosophy and the psychological psychology? (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved).

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“我的对手W.教授”：生理心理学初期（1872-1879）威廉·冯特和阿道夫·霍维茨之间的争论。

阿道夫·霍维茨（Adolf Horwicz，1831-1894）是威廉·冯特 1875 年当选莱比锡大学哲学系主任的主要公开批评者。霍尔维茨于 1872 年出版的《心理分析与生理学原理》一书对他的同时代人产生了巨大影响。两年后，冯特出版了《生理心理学原理》（1874），与霍维茨的著作一起被公认为新兴生理心理学最具代表性的著作。最后，霍维茨和冯特在1879-1880年间发表在《科学哲学哲学史》（Vierteljahrsschrift für wissenschaftliche Philosophie）上进行了一场辩论，冯特肯定霍尔维茨的许多研究成果是从先入为主的想法推导出来的，没有使用明确的方法。因此，霍维茨认为冯特的批评旨在破坏他的科学声誉。这场争论是 1870 年代初开始担任哲学教授的专业哲学家和生理学家之间长期职业斗争的具体化。争论可以概括为以下问题：（a）心理学是否应该将寻找单一的物理-生物过程作为其主要目标，以将所有其他心理过程简化为该过程？(b) 心理学研究应该使用归纳主义推理吗？(c) 哲学和心理心理学之间应该是什么关系？（PsycInfo 数据库记录 (c) 2023 APA，保留所有权利）。