Wundt, Avenarius, and Scientific PsychologyThis book reconstructs the rise and fall of Wilhelm Wundts fortunes, focusing for the first time on the role of Richard Avenarius as catalyst for the so called positivist repudiation of Wundt. Krauss specifically looks at the progressive disavowal of Wundtian ideas in the world of scientific psychology, and especially by his former pupils. This book provides important historical context and a critical discussion of the current state of research, in