Carl Stumpf

Carl Stumpf
Carl Stumpf.
Born21 April 1848
Wiesentheid, Germany
Died25 December 1936(1936-12-25) (aged 88)
Berlin, Germany
EducationUniversity of Göttingen
(Dr. phil., 1868; Dr. phil. hab., 1870)
Era20th-century philosophy
RegionWestern philosophy
SchoolSchool of Brentano (early)
Berlin School of experimental psychology
Phenomenology
Theses
Doctoral advisorHermann Lotze (doctoral and habilitation adv.)[2]
Other academic advisorsFranz Brentano
Doctoral studentsEdmund Husserl
Wolfgang Köhler
Kurt Lewin
Main interests
Ontology
Psychology
Notable ideas
Tone psychology (Tonpsychologie)
State of affairs (Sachverhalt)[3] [4]
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Carl Stumpf (German: [ʃtʊmpf]; 21 April 1848 – 25 December 1936) was a German philosopher, psychologist and musicologist. He is noted for founding the Berlin School of experimental psychology.

He studied with Franz Brentano at the University of Würzburg before receiving his doctorate at the University of Göttingen in 1868. He also tutored the modernist literature writer Robert Musil at the University of Berlin, and worked with Hermann Lotze, who is famous for his work in perception, at Göttingen. Stumpf is known for his work on the psychology of tones. He had an important influence on his students Wolfgang Köhler and Kurt Koffka who were instrumental in the founding of Gestalt psychology as well as Kurt Lewin, who was also a part of the Gestalt group and was key in the establishment of experimental social psychology in America.

Stumpf is considered one of the pioneers of comparative musicology and ethnomusicology, as documented in his study of the origins of human musical cognition The Origins of Music (1911). He held positions in the philosophy departments at the Universities of Göttingen, Würzburg, Prague, Munich and Halle, before obtaining a professorship at the University of Berlin.[6]

  1. ^ Philosophy from an Empirical Standpoint: Essays on Carl Stumpf, BRILL, 2015, p. 153.
  2. ^ Burt Hopkins, Steven Crowell (eds.), The New Yearbook for Phenomenology and Phenomenological Philosophy: Volume 6, Routledge, 2015, p. 66.
  3. ^ C. Stumpf, "Erscheinungen und psychische Funktionen", Abhandlungen der Berliner Akademie, 1907, p. 29; C. Stumpf's contribution to Philosophie der Gegenwart in Selbstdarstellungen, Vol. 5, 1924, as trans. in C. Murchison, ed. History of Psychology in Autobiography, Vol. I, pp. 389–441, esp. p. 421; Barry Smith, "An Essay in Formal Ontology", Grazer Philosophische Studien, 6 (1978), pp. 39–62.
  4. ^ Padilla Gálvez, Jesús (2021). State of Affairs. Reconstructing the Controversy over Sachverhalt. Philosophia Verlag.
  5. ^ Liliana Albertazzi, Immanent Realism: An Introduction to Brentano, Springer, 2006, p. 321.
  6. ^ Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.