Scottish philosopher and psychologist who systematized associationist psychology on a physiological basis and founded the first journal of psychology, Mind (1876).
The Senses and the Intellect / The Emotions and the Will: systematic associationist psychology grounded in physiological mechanisms — the first psychology textbooks in the modern sense. Founded Mind: the first journal of psychology and philosophy. Early formulation of the neural identity theory.
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