Titlebook: Historical Roots of Cognitive Science; The Rise of a Cognit Theo C. Meyering Book 1989 Kluwer Academic Publishers 1989 The Theory of Vision

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Gossamer

Mechanicism and the Rise of an Information Theory of Perception. A Naturalistic Reconstruction of (e research program brought in its wake in the fields of philosophy, epistemology and theoretical psychology. It is not surprising that it was not until the days of Kepler that the dioptrical aspect of the problem of perception was (largely) solved although practically in ingredients for that solutio

Odyssey

Epistemological Issues Underlying the Nineteenth Century Controversies in Physiological Optics. Thech into the theory of perception adopted by rationalists and empiricists alike ever since the rise of Cartesian mechanicism and of the corpuscular philosophy in general. We are now in a position to telescope the argument and to deal with relevant contemporary and subsequent 18th century developments

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,The Interplay between Philosophy and Physiology in Helmholtz’s View,ussian philologist and Gymnasium teacher at Potsdam, Helmholtz grew up in an intellectually stimulating milieu in which philosophical issues were the objects of keen interest. Yet, during the days of his intellectual maturation, his special appreciation of Kant stemmed from his very opposition to th

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,Helmholtz’s Theory of the Perception of Space,mological point of view as naturalistic and psycho-physiological. Mere psychological or conceptual analysis leaves one end of the perceptual process as it were dangling in mid-air. One might as well study the life-processes of a tree while leaving its roots out of consideration.

藝術

不如樂死去

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Reconstruction of the History of Medieval and (Post-) Cartesian Theories of Perception in Terms of rocessing of the given in perception was not felt to be of crucial relevance to the theory of . knowledge. To be sure, according to the Scholastics the sensible imprints of nature upon our senses are further refined by operations of abstraction whereby sensible forms (.) give rise to intelligible on