1. Introduction: Reevaluating Christian Wolff's Psychology
2. Who Was Afraid of Wolff's Psychology? The Historical Context
3. The Origins and Development of Wolff's Psychology in His German Writings
4. Empirical Psychology: Between Reason and Experience
5. Wolff and the Dogmas of Classical Rationalism
6. Wolff's Idea of Psychometria
7. Wolff on Monadology and "Materialisterey"
8. Wolff and the Logic of the Human Mind
9. Image Composition as an Aesthetic-Epistemological Problem in Wolff's Empirical Psychology
10. In-between Psychology and Moral Philosophy: Christian Wolff's Principle of Natural Obligation
11. The Relation between Psychology and the Other Parts of Metaphysics: Ontology, Cosmology, and Theology
12. Development and Diffusion of Wolff's Psychology through His Disciples and Followers
13. Wolffians and the Emancipation of Aesthetic Faculties
14. Wolff and the Beginnings of Experimental Psychology in the Eighteenth Century
15. The Science of the Soul and the Unyielding Architectonic: Kant versus Wolff on the Foundations of Psychology
16. Hegel and Wolff's Psychologies
17. "The Most Excellent Psychological Systematist" Wolff's Psychology in the Eyes of Wilhelm Wundt
About the Author: Saulo de Freitas Araujo is Professor of History and Philosophy of Psychology at the Federal University of Juiz de Fora in the State of Minas Gerais, Brazil. He is also Director of the Wilhelm Wundt Center for the History and Philosophy of Psychology (NUHFIP) at the same institution. His work focuses on the historical development and philosophical foundations of scientific psychology, especially in the German tradition. Among numerous publications, he is author of Wundt and the Philosophical Foundations of Psychology: A Reappraisal (Springer, 2016).
Thiago Constâncio Ribeiro Pereira is Professor of Psychology at the Fluminense Federal University in Volta Redonda, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He is also coordinator of the Philosophy and History of Psychology Research Group (FHIPSI) at the same institution. His current work focuses on Christian Wolff and eighteenth-century psychology, ideas of mind and body in psychological theories, and historiography of psychology.
Thomas Sturm is ICREA research professor at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (Spain). His work centers on three areas: Kant's philosophy, theories of rationality at the intersection of philosophy and psychology, and the relations between philosophy and history of science. Main publications: Kant und die Wissenschaften vom Menschen (2009); How Reason Almost Lost Its Mind: The Strange Career of Cold War Rationality (co-authored with L. Daston, M. Gordin, P. Erickson, J. Klein and R. Lemov, 2013). Numerous articles in journals such as Erkenntnis, Kant-Studien, Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, or Synthese.
