Abstract

The following article focuses on the works and achievements of the German structural psychologist Oswald Külpe, trying to provide a fresh account of his ideas of the systematic experimental introspection and how they affected, inter alia, the Irish Nobel Prize winner Samuel Beckett who manifestly included Külpe’s thoughts in his novel Murphy. The article furthermore draws attention to the connection between Külpe and Charles Sanders Peirce and how his ideas can significantly relate to Külpes ideas of the imageless thought, concentrating on the belief that there is always an objective significance which can be found within experiments of thoughts. In connection with the exploration of seldom-discussed scholars of this School, the article explores the innovative methods that modified ideas and beliefs of Behaviorism, placing special emphasis on the connection of Külpe’s ideas and the one’s of Charles Sanders Peirce and Victoria Lady Welby.