Eino Kaila

Eino Kaila in 1951.

Eino Sakari Kaila (born August 9, 1890 in Alajärvi , † July 31, 1958 in Kirkkonummi ) was a Finnish philosopher , psychologist , critic and teacher .

Act

Kaila was a representative of the logical empiricism described by Ludwig Wittgenstein , Bertrand Russell and AN Whitehead . Georg Henrik von Wright was one of his students . Kaila was close to the positivist- oriented Vienna Circle . In the field of psychology, his research in perception and developmental psychology shows Kaila to be a representative of Gestalt psychology . In the field of logic, the philosopher dealt with problems of deduction , induction and probability .

Selected Works

• Object color and lighting. Psychological Research, 1924, 3, 18-59.
• The localization of the objects during eye movements. Psychological Research, 1924, 3, 60-77.
• The Infant's Reactions to the Human Face. Annales Universitatis Aboensis, B-XVII. Turku 1932.
• The Finnish State University for three hundred years. Helsinki: Kustannusosakeyhtiö Otava 1940
• The perceptual and conceptual components of everyday experience. Helsinki: Akateeminen Kirjakauppa 1962
• Reality and experience. Four philosophical essays. Dordrecht [u. a.]: Reidel 1979
• Terminal causality as the basis of a unitary concept of nature. A natural-philosophical investigation. Helsinki: Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Kirjapaino 1956
• About the system of reality concepts. A contribution to logical empiricism. Helsinki: Suomalaisen Kirjapaino Oy 1936

literature

• M. Jääskeläinen: Gestalt Theory in the Psychology of Eino Kaila. In: Gestalt Theory, 3, 3/4, 1981, pp. 244-254.

Web links

Commons : Eino Kaila  - Collection of Images

• Books and Writers: Eino Kaila ( Memento June 28, 2014 in the Internet Archive ).
• Humanist tieteilevät
• Eino Kaila yes tie Wienin piiriin
• Literature by and about Eino Kaila in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

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