 It is against this background that Theodor Lipps founded the Academic Society for Psychology in Munich, most likely in 1895. Lipps, who was both a philosopher and a trained psychologist, helped to shape the Department of Philosophy in Munich, where he became professor in 1894. Although Lipps revised his initial views over the years, by the end of the nineteenth century he endorsed a psychologistic approach by promoting a form of psychology that he at times qualified as “descriptive” (1903: 5). Lipps understood descriptive psychology as a discipline that, by means of inner perception, describes, compares, and systematizes mental contents (basically, any part of our conscious mental life, see 1903: 5). Lipps maintained that inner perception is able to grasp these contents with evidence.