ABSTRACT
The Würzburgers’ thought-psychological studies were published at a time when the institutional and intellectual borders between psychology and other fields of study were still very much in flux. Indeed, psychology was not even an independent discipline yet. Psychologists such as Wundt, Müller, and Külpe held professorial chairs in philosophy, and Wundt had earlier trained and taught as a physiologist. As is to be expected under such circumstances, different psychologists had diverging views on the relationship between psychology and other academic subjects, and thus also contrary positions on the proper institutional location for psychology. In this chapter, I shall explain the links between these disagreements and the controversy over thought psychology.
