Which Philosopher Was a Parallelism?

Parallelism is usually associated with Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

, a 17th-century German philosopher, scientist, and mathematician who maintained that perfect correlation between mind and body was ensured by the Creator at the beginning of time in a “preestablished harmony.”

Who invented psychophysical parallelism?

Psychophysical parallelism had been established and developed by the physicist, phi- losopher, and psychologist Gustav Theodor Fechner. First mention of his theory dates in the 1820s, but the contents became well known through his mature work, Elements of Psycho- physics, in 1860.

What is parallelism in philosophy of mind?

In the philosophy of mind, psychophysical parallelism (or simply parallelism) is the theory that mental and bodily events are perfectly coordinated, without any causal interaction between them.