Phenomenology of perception : theories and experimental evidence / by Carmelo Calì.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Calì, Carmelo, author.

Series:

Value inquiry book series ; v. 296.

Value inquiry book series. Cognitive science

Value inquiry book series, 0929-8436 ; Volume 296

Value inquiry book series: Cognitive Science

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Perception (Philosophy).

Phenomenology.

Physical Description:

ix, 289 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill-Rodopi, [2017]

Summary:

Cognitive Science (COSC) provides an original corpus of scholarly work that makes explicit the import of cognitive-science research for philosophical analysis. Topics include the nature, structure, and justification of knowledge, cognitive architectures and development, brain-mind theories, and consciousness. COSC is a special series in VIBS, the Value Inquiry Book Series. Phenomenology of Perception: Theories and Experimental Evidence reconstructs and reviews the phenomenological research of the Brentano School, Edgar Rubin, David Katz, Albert Michotte and Gestalt psychology. Phenomenology is commonly considered a philosophy of subjective experience, but this book presents it instead as a set of commitments for philosophy and science to discover the immanent grammar underlying the objective meaning of perception. Pioneering experimental results on the qualitative and quantitative structures of the perceptual world are collected to show that, contrary to the received assumption, phenomenology can be embedded in standard science. This book will therefore be of interest not only to phenomenologists but also to anyone concerned with epistemological and empirical issues in contemporary psychology and the cognitive sciences. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 The Nature and Science of Perception 5

1.1 Perceptual Properties: Sensory Effects and the Representational Structure of Perception 5

1.2 Sensory Aggregates and the Projection of Knowledge 9

1.3 Normal Conditions and Experimental Observation 11

1.4 Perceptual Properties at Face Value: The Phenomenal Basis of Science 14

1.5 Appearances, Meaning and Relations 16

1.6 Observing Phenomena "from the Outside": Series and Order of Appearances 21

2 Phenomenology in Philosophy and Science of Perception 25

2.1 The Empirical Grammar of Perception in Brentano 25

2.1.1 The Elements of Phenomena 30

2.2 The Neutral Science of Appearances in Stumpf 34

2.2.1 The Immanent Structural Laws of Appearances 38

2.3 Husserl and the Form of the Theories of Perception 41

2.4 Phenomenal Reality and Psychology of Perception in Metzger 46

2.5 Kottka on the Phenomenological Questions of Perception Science 49

2.6 Experience, Science and Philosophy in Köhler 53

3 The Variety of the Phenomenology of Perception 56

3.1 Meinongon Color Manifold 57

3.2 At the Borders of Conceptual and Experimental Issues: Brentano and Rubin 63

3.2.1 The Phenomenal Array of Experience: Boundaries and Continua in Brentano 64

3.2.2 Meaning in the Perceptual Field: Figure-Ground and Contour in Rubin 68

3.3 Katz: The Phenomenological Method and Color and Touch Modes of Appearances 76

3.4 Phenomenological Questions and Evidence 88

3.4.1 Wertheimer: The Perception of Movement and the "Natural" Organization 88

3.4.2 Goldmeier: The Phenomenal Content of Similarity and the Structure of Visual Objects 98

3.5 Experimental Phenomenology 107

3.5.1 Kanizsa: The Independence of Perception and the Autonomy of Vision Science 108

3.5.2 Bozzi: The EpistemologieaI Foundation of Experimental Phenomenology 113

4 Physics and Geometry of Stimuli and Phenomenology 123

4.1 The Stimulus Error. Unobservable Posits and the Variety of Data 124

4.1.1 Phenomenal Structures and Comparative Judgements 128

4.2 Perceptual and Geometrical Properties of Visual Figures 132

4.3 The Variety of Stimulus Errors 135

4.4 The Concomitant Variation of Stimuli and the Phenomenal Structures in Michotte 137

4.4.1 Phenomenal Mechanical Properties: Perception of Causality 142

4.5 Velocity and Time in the Perception of Movement 145

4.6 Perceptual Forms of Movement and Naive Physics 148

4.7 The Logic of Experimental Phenomenology 152

5 Phenomenal Structures of Space 161

5.1 The Phenomenal Space Continuum 164

5.2 The Self as Spatial Part: Meaning and Relations in Space 172

5.3 Forms of Visual Space 174

5.4 The Ordered Manifold of Depth 177

5.5 The Kinematics of Visual Things in Space 184

5.6 The Intrinsic Geometry of Phenomena 191

5.6.1 The Elements of the Geometry of Phenomena 193

5.7 The Coordinate Systems of Movements and Spatial Appearances 196

5.8 A Model of Perceptual Geometry 199

6 Phenomenal Structures of Time 207

6.1 Temporal Displacement and the Nature of Temporal intervals 208

6.2 The Qualitative Order of Time 211

6.3 Temporal Grouping 213

6.4 The Structure of Phenomenal Permanence 215

7 Criticisms and Appraisal 219

7.1 The Phenomenological Meaning of Normal Illumination 219

7.2 Meta-theory and Empirical Science 225

7.3 Perceiving the Difference and the Phenomenal Basis Judgements 228

7.3.1 Absolute Properties of Appearances 236

7.4 Phenomenological Commitments 240.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Calì, Carmelo. Phenomenology of perception.

ISBN:

9789004309357

9004309357

OCLC:

958782365