What did Titchener believe would be the ultimate “why” of psychology?
Titchener always called himself as the psychophysical parallelist as, he always considers the concerns of mind body relationship. He was appeared to seize epiphenomenalism sometimes and Spinozian double aspectism as well. Uncharacterized equivocation of the Titchener position on the relationship of the mind-body reflected the presence of the disinterest in his thinking rather the shoddiness.
Titchener’s attempt to describe about the mind-body relationship falls very close to the metaphysical speculations, which was foreign to the Titchener’s positivism. According to him, the continuity to the psychological processes is provided by the substrates of the physiological processes. Thus, mental events are not caused by the nervous system.
He proposed the fact that the neurological processes serves as the ultimate why of the mental life. To derive the description of the circumstances related to the occurrence of the mental processes, understanding of the why is required first. Empiricists as well as the rationalist believed the same that the senses serve as the gateway to our mind.