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Product Identifiers
PublisherMIT Press
ISBN-100262515350
ISBN-139780262515351
eBay Product ID (ePID)109201639
Product Key Features
Number of Pages380 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameNatural and the Normative : Theories of Spatial Perception from Kant to Helmholtz
Publication Year2003
SubjectHistory
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaScience
AuthorGary Hatfield
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.8 in
Item Weight19.3 Oz
Item Length9 in
Item Width6.4 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
Dewey Edition20
TitleLeadingThe
Grade FromCollege Graduate Student
Dewey Decimal153.7/52/09033
SynopsisGary Hatfield examines theories of spatial perception from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century and provides a detailed analysis of the works of Kant and Helmholtz, who adopted opposing stances on whether central questions about spatial perception were amenable to natural-scientific treatment. At stake were the proper understanding of the relationships among sensation, perception, and experience, and the proper methodological framework for investigating the mental activities of judgment, understanding, and reason issues which remain at the core of philosophical psychology and cognitive science. Hatfield presents these important issues as living philosophies of science that shape and are shaped by actual research programs, creating a complex and fascinating picture of the entire nineteenth-century battle between nativism and empiricism. His examination of Helmholtz's work in physiological optics and epistemology is a tour de force.