title: Kurt Goldstein--a philosophical scientist.
abstract: Kurt Goldstein was one of the major proponents of the holistic movement which was opposed to the classical connectionist Wernicke-Lichtheim-Model in aphasiology at the beginning of the 20th century. Influenced by Kant, Husserl and Cassirer, his work goes beyond purely empirical research and approaches traditionally philosophical questions: How can we proceed from empirical data to a theory adequately reflecting reality? How can we understand man as mind and body? What is the relation between language and cognition? Goldstein's concepts of biological knowledge, self-actualization and abstract attitude seek to address these questions. His work thus becomes attractive for philosophers. It was taken up and interpreted by Cassirer, Merleau-Ponty and Gurwitsch.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurology, Otto-Von-Guericke University, Magdeburg, Germany. u.noppeney@fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk
authors.forename: U
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Noppeney
mesh_terms: D001037:Aphasia / Q000266:history*; D005858:Germany; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D007802:Language; D009488:Neurosciences / Q000266:history