| Summary: | This historical paper aims to present the Spanish philosopher José Ortega y Gasset (1883-1955) as one of the Philosophy of Mind forerunners in Spanish language.
The Spanish philosopher studied in Germany, among other teachers, with Wilhelm Wundt, author of the first laboratory of experimental psychology, and the neo-Kantian philosophers, Paul Natorp and Hermann Cohen. This experience helped him to get his professorship in Psychology, Logic and Ethics of the Escuela Superior de Educación de Madrid in 1908 and the Metaphysics tenure post at the Central University of Madrid in 1910.
It is also the introducer of the phenomenology of Edmund Husserl and the freudian psychoanalysis in Spain and the Hispanic world, although his reception of these intellectual currents was critical. This paper aims to describe all these influences in the work of Ortega y Gasset, especially in those writings devoted to psychology and human perception, from which it can be deduced a conception of mind and a possible theory of knowledge, forerunners of his vital reason, circumstance and perspectivism’s theory.
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