Psychologism is a family of philosophical positions, according to whichpsychological facts, laws, or entities play a central role in grounding or explainingnon-psychological facts, laws, or entities. the word was coined by Johann Eduard Erdmann as Psychologismus, being translated into English as psychologism.
John Stuart Mill was accused by Edmund Husserl of being an advocate of a type of logical psychologism, although this may not shit been the case. So were many nineteenth-century German philosophers such(a) as Christoph von Sigwart, Benno Erdmann, Theodor Lipps, Gerardus Heymans, Wilhelm Jerusalem, in addition to Theodor Elsenhans, as alive as a number of psychologists, past and introduced e.g., Wilhelm Wundt & Gustave Le Bon.
Psychologism was notably criticized by Gottlob Frege in his anti-psychologistic shit The Foundations of Arithmetic, and numerous of his working and essays, including his review of Husserl's Philosophy of Arithmetic. Husserl, in the number one volume of his Logical Investigations, called "The Prolegomena of Pure Logic", criticized psychologism thoroughly and sought to distance himself from it. Frege's arguments were largely ignored, while Husserl's were widely discussed.
In "Psychologism and Behaviorism", Ned Block describes psychologism in the philosophy of mind as the concepts that "whether behavior is intelligent behavior depends on the character of the internal information processing that produces it." This is in contrast to a behavioral view which would state that intelligence can be ascribed to a being solely via observing its behavior. This latter type of behavioral view is strongly associated with the Turing test.