Phenomenology of Perception

Carmelo Calì, Ph.D. (2002), University of Palermo, is Assistant Professor at that university. He has published papers and chapters on the theory of perception and its implications for the psychology of arts, the cognitive sciences, and the social robotics.

• Introduction1. The Nature and Science of Perception1.1 Perceptual Properties: Sensory Effects and the Representational Structure of Perception1.2 Sensory Aggregates and the Projection of Knowledge1.3 Normal Conditions and Experimental Observation1.4 Perceptual Properties at Face Value: the Phenomenal Basis of Science1.5 Appearances, Meaning and Relations1.6 Observing Phenomena “from the Outside”: Series and Order of Appearances2. Phenomenology in Philosophy and Science of Perception2.1 The Empirical Grammar of Perception in Brentano2.1.1 The Elements of Phenomena2.2 The Neutral Science of Appearances in Stumpf2.2.1 The Immanent Structural Laws of Appearances2.3 Husserl and the Form of the Theories of Perception2.4 Phenomenal Reality and Psychology of Perception in Metzger2.5 Koffka on the Phenomenological Questions of Perception Science2.6 Experience, Science and Philosophy in Köhler3. The Variety of the Phenomenology of Perception3.1 Meinong on Color Manifold3.2 At the Borders of Conceptual and Experimental Issues: Brentano and Rubin3.2.1 The Phenomenal Array of Experience: Boundaries and Continua in Brentano3.2.2 Meaning in the Perceptual Field: Figure–Ground and Contour in Rubin3.3 Katz: The Phenomenological Method and Color and Touch Modes of Appearances3.4 Phenomenological Questions and Evidence3.4.1 Wertheimer: the Perception of Movement and the “Natural” Organization3.4.2 Goldmeier: the Phenomenal Content of Similarity and the Structure of Visual Objects3.5 Experimental Phenomenology3.5.1 Kanizsa: the Independence of Perception and the Autonomy of Vision Science3.5.2 Bozzi: the Epistemological Foundation of Experimental Phenomenology4. Physics and Geometry of Stimuli and Phenomenology.4.1 The Stimulus Error. Unobservable Posits and the Variety of Data4.1.1 Phenomenal Structures and Comparative Judgements4.2 Perceptual and Geometrical Properties of Visual Figures4.3 The Variety of Stimulus Errors4.4 The Concomitant Variation of Stimuli and the Phenomenal Structures in Michotte4.4.1 Phenomenal Mechanical Properties: Perception of Causality4.5 Velocity and Time in the Perception of Movement4.6 Perceptual Forms of Movement and Naive Physics4.7 The Logic of Experimental Phenomenology5. Phenomenal Structures of Space5.1 The Phenomenal Space Continuum5.2 The Self as Spatial Part: Meaning and Relations in Space5.3 Forms of Visual Space5.4 The Ordered Manifold of Depth5.5 The Kinematics of Visual Things in Space5.6 The Intrinsic Geometry of Phenomena5.6.1 The Elements of the Geometry of Phenomena5.7 The Coordinate Systems of Movements and Spatial Appearances5.8 A Model of Perceptual Geometry6. Phenomenal Structures of Time6.1 Temporal Displacement and the Nature of Temporal Intervals6.2 The Qualitative Order of Time6.3 Temporal Grouping6.4 The Structure of Phenomenal Permanence7. Criticisms and Appraisal7.1 The Phenomenological Meaning of Normal Illumination7.2 Meta-theory and Empirical Science7.3 Perceiving the Difference and the Phenomenal Basis of Judgements7.3.1 Absolute Properties of Appearances7.4 Phenomenological CommitmentsConclusionsBibliographyIndex