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Shapes of Forms

From Gestalt Psychology and Phenomenology to Ontology and Mathematics

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  • © 1999

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Editors:
  1. Liliana Albertazzi

    1. Department of Sociology and Social Research, University of Trento, Trento, Italy

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Part of the book series: Synthese Library (SYLI, volume 275)

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vi
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  2. Form Aesthetics: Introduction

    • Liliana Albertazzi
    Pages 1-17

  3. Experimental Phenomenology: A Historical Profile

    • Paolo Bozzi
    Pages 19-50

  4. What is Form?

    • Alf Zimmer
    Pages 51-88

  5. Forms and Events

    • Giovanni Bruno Vicario
    Pages 89-106

  6. Towards a Theory of Figural Form

    • Michael Stadler, Sabine Pfaff, Peter Kruse
    Pages 107-122

  7. On Prägnanz

    • Riccardo Luccio
    Pages 123-148

  8. Formal Characteristics in Verbal Description and Spatial Representation

    • Manfredo Massironi, Maria Chiara Levorato
    Pages 149-176

  9. Forms in Algebras and Their Interpretations: Some Historical and Philosophical Features

    • Ivor Grattan-Guinness
    Pages 177-190

  10. An Essay on the Notion of Schema

    • Alberto Peruzzi
    Pages 191-243

  11. QUA-Theories

    • Roberto Poli
    Pages 245-256

  12. Form Metaphysics

    • Liliana Albertazzi
    Pages 257-305

  13. Ontological Categories

    • John F. Sowa
    Pages 307-340

  14. On Forms of Objects

    • Jacek Jadacki
    Pages 341-359

  15. Back Matter

    Pages 361-378
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impossible triangle, after apprehension of the perceptively given mode of being of that 'object', the visual system assumes that all three sides touch on all three sides, whereas this happens on only one side. In fact, the sides touch only optically, because they are separate in depth. In Meinong's words, Penrose's triangle has been inserted in an 'objective', or in what we would today call a "cognitive schema". Re-examination of the Graz school's theory, as said, sheds light on several problems concerning the theory of perception, and, as Luccio points out in his contribution to this book, it helps to eliminate a number of over-simplistic commonplaces, such as the identification of the cognitivist notion of 'top down' with Wertheimer's 'von oben unten', and of 'bottom up' with his 'von unten nach oben'. In fact, neither Hochberg's and Gregory's 'concept-driven' perception nor Gibson's 'data-driven' perception coincide with the original conception of the Gestalt.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Sociology and Social Research, University of Trento, Trento, Italy

    Liliana Albertazzi

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Shapes of Forms

  • Book Subtitle: From Gestalt Psychology and Phenomenology to Ontology and Mathematics

  • Editors: Liliana Albertazzi

  • Series Title: Synthese Library

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-2990-1

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 1999

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-5246-4Published: 31 December 1998

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-5098-4Published: 10 April 2011

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-017-2990-1Published: 09 March 2013

  • Series ISSN: 0166-6991

  • Series E-ISSN: 2542-8292

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VI, 378

  • Topics: Philosophy of Science, Psycholinguistics, Philosophy of Language, Phenomenology

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