ABSTRACT
The worn expression 'life devoted to work and duty' is applicable to nothing more justifiably than to the much too short span of time that Stephan Witasek spent among us. A successful differentiation of psychology cannot be spoken of in the case of the Graz school. Witasek's turn to experimental psychology presumably also had concrete socio-economic and pragmatic reasons. This subject promised to be advanced by Meinong. In the years 1909 and 1910 Witasek got involved in an academic dispute with Franz Hillebrand who occupied a chair for psychology in Innsbruck. In reference to the whole situation of the Graz school, the study of Stephan Witasek, i.e., a study concerning the incomplete differentiation of psychology from philosophy, would have to be mentioned. In all the critic of the single procedures, it should not be forgotten that Witasek spent the greatest part of his life in earning a living which kept him far from philosophy.
