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Includes bibliographical references (pages 353-370) and index
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Preface
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Acknowledgments
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Phenomenology, hermeneutics, and philosophy of science.
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Introduction ;
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Philosophies of perception ;
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Phenomenology ;
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Perception, horizon, world, intentionality ;
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Being-in-the-world: body ;
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Science and the perceptual world ;
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Models, metaphors, and the "things themselves"
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Hyperbolic visual space.
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Introduction to visual space.
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Introduction ;
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Appearances in hyperbolic visual space ;
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Quasi-stable euclidean/non-euclidean phenomena ;
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The gateway arch
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Visual space: search for a model.
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Kant: space as a priori for experience ;
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Pictorial spaces ;
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How to represent pictorial spaces ;
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Arnheim's "pyramidal space" ;
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Pure geometries ;
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Non-Euclidean visual space ;
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Luneburg's theory of hyperbolic visual space ;
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Free mobility of forms ;
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Failure of Luneburg's model ;
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Hermeneutical visual model ;
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Stability of visual metric
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Hyperbolic space: the model.
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Model of hyperbolic visual space ;
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The true point and the "Newtonian oasis" ;
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Finite and infinite visual spaces ;
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Horizon sphere ;
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"Pyramidal structure" of finite visual space ;
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Determination of parameters of model ;
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Near zone and distant zone ;
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Near zone ;
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Distant zone ;
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Horizontal planes ;
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Frontal planes ;
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Spheroidal world of sight" ;
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Quasi-stable Euclidean/hypberbolic phenomena ;
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Near zone and distant zone in the everyday world
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Evidence from perceptual illusions.
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Informal evidence ;
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Perceptual illusions ;
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Two-dimensional illusions ;
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Illusions of rotation and optical images ;
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Three-dimensional illusions ;
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Illusions of rotation and optical images ;
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Three-dimensional illusions ;
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The moon illusion ;
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The radiant sun ;
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Other confirmatory evidence
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Evidence from the history of art.
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Pictures and pictured objects ;
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Artificial perspective ;
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Perspective as "symbolic form" ;
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"Fishbone" perspective and curved space ;
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From image-structure to space-structure: debate ;
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Influence of picture surface ;
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Ambiguity of pictorial space ;
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Curvilinear synthetic perspective ;
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As depicting motion or curved space? ;
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The pictorial space of Vincent van Gogh ;
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Part I, conclusions
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Toward a philosophy of science based on the primacy of perception.
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Nature of perception.
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Perception and percept ;
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Phenomenology of the perceptual object ;
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Physical causality and perception ;
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Imagination, memory, hallucination, illusion ;
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Perception and past experience ;
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Horizons of geometrical perception ;
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Realism of everyday life ;
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Perceptual judgments and descriptive criteria ;
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Anomalous hyperbolic perception ;
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Natural vs. conventionalist geometrry
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Causal physiological model of perception.
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Physical and physiological basis of perception ;
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Physiological moment ;
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Psychic moment ;
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Somatic information channel ;
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Ambiguity of stimulus-object relation ;
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Inescapable reference to life world
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Perception as mirroring: realism.
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Perception as mirroring of nature ;
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Pictorial reality ;
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Euclidean structure and prepedicative intentionality ;
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Possibility of non-Euclidean perception ;
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Poincaré-Reichenbach conventionalism ;
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Percepts and perceptual judgments ;
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Veridical perceptual judgments ;
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Hallucinatory perceptual objects ;
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Illusory perceptual objects ;
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Anomalous objects: distorted or transformed? ;
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Scientific observer as universal observer ;
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Visual observer as privileged observer
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Horizonal realism.
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Scientific realism ;
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Horizonal realism ;
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Context ;
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Context-dependency and quantum logic ;
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Objectivity ;
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Reduction of manifest to scientific image: problem ;
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Manifest objects as real ;
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Perception of scientific entities ;
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Scientific observation as 'reading' of 'text' ;
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Hermeneutics ;
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Observer as embodied ;
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Opacity of scientific 'texts' ;
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Observation as theory-laden ;
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The ontological intent of science ;
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Scientific instrument as "readable technology" ;
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Observers and quantum mechanics ;
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The ontological achievement of science ;
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Human embodiment in readable technologies ;
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Furniture of the Earth and universe
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Identity theories and psychobiology.
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Monistic realism and identity theories.
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Psychobiology ;
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Metaresearch principles of psychobiology
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Hermeneutics and the history of science.
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Hermeneutical circle ;
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Natural science as nonhermeneutical ;
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Role of hermeneutics in natural science ;
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Hermeneutics and the history of science ;
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The history of science and progress in knowledge ;
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Hermeneutical model of rational progress: linear part ;
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Hermeneutical model of rational progress: dialectical part ;
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Modes of rationality compared ;
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Models and their descriptive use ;
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Science in cultural perspective
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Euclidean space as a scientific artifact.
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The everyday world as artifact of the scientific imagination ;
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Euclidean visual space as a scientific artifact
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World possibilities.
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Hyperbolic worlds ;
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General conditions of possibility of worlds
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Retrospective.
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Hermeneutical character of the study ;
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General philosophical theory ;
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Specific applications and conclusions ;
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Visual spaces ;
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Manifest and scientific images ;
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Identity theories ;
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Hermeneutics and the history of science and perception ;
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World-building
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Appendix.
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Hyperbolic visual map of physical space.
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Introduction ;
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Hermeneutical Luneburg model: configuration-dependent hyperbolic space ;
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Physical space ;
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Visual space ;
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Radial distance in visual space ;
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Size-depth match ;
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Contraction and dilation of space ;
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Orientation of sides of reference tripod relative to visual horizontal and vertical ;
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Discussion ;
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Tilting of planes in visual space ;
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Discussion ;
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Perspectival projections in visual space ;
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Depth-distance ratios in visual space ;
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Illustration of visual shapes ;
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Illustration ;
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Tables
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Notes
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References
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Index.
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Heelan, Patrick A Space-perception and the philosophy of science Berkeley : University of California Press, [1983] ISBN 0520046110
Sprache:
Englisch
Fachgebiete:
Psychologie
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Philosophie
Mehr zum Autor:
Heelan, Patrick A. 1926-2015
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