Psychological Review, Vol. 4 (Classic Reprint)

No. i. JANUARY, 1897. THE PSYCHOLOGICAL REVIEW. THE KNOWER IN PSYCHOLOGY.1 BY PROFESSOR G. S. FULLERTON, University of Pennsylvania. Gentlemen: In the presidential address which I have the honor to read to-day before your A ssociation, I have taken up a psychological problem which seems to me of importance both to psychology and to epistemology, and one which has not, I think, in the general advance of the science of psychology, been treated with the same clearness, or had applied to it the same scientific method, that has led to such good results elsewhere. I allude to the problem of the self or knower as contrasted with those problems arising in the consideration of things known, whether phenomena or external things. I am not here directly concerned with the question of the so-called empirical self, that psychical complex which has been analyzed and discussed much as one analyses and discusses any other mental content. It may, it is true, be difficult to enumerate the elements of which this is composed, but the attitude of the psychologist toward it is sufficiently definite, and the only mystery that the subject presents is the mystery of incomplete knowledge. In discussing it the psychologist at least means something. He applies the scientific method, aiming at and hoping for clear and exact results. The self with which I am concerned is the knower, that indefinite something to which attaches, not merely the mystery of incomplete knowledge, but also, as I cannot but believe, the mystery of misconception ;it is that elusive 1P residents address before the American Psychological A ssociation, Boston Meeting, December 30, 1896.
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