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The Dawn of Cognitive Science

Early European Contributors

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  • © 2001

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Editors:
  1. Liliana Albertazzi

    1. University of Trento, Italy
      Central European Foundation, Bolzano, Italy

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Part of the book series: Synthese Library (SYLI, volume 295)

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Table of contents (17 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vi
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  2. Back to the Origins

    • Liliana Albertazzi
    Pages 1-27

  3. The Primitives of Presentation Wholes, Parts and Psychophysics

    • Liliana Albertazzi
    Pages 29-60

  4. The Politics of Thought: A Social History of the Debate between Wundt and the Würzburg School

    • Martin Kusch
    Pages 61-88

  5. Representation in Psychophysics

    • Riccardo Luccio
    Pages 89-101

  6. Lotze on the Sensory Representation of Space

    • Robin D. Rollinger
    Pages 103-122

  7. Ernst Mach’s Evolutionary Theory of Representation

    • Jan Sebestik
    Pages 123-134

  8. Hermann von Helmholtz and Ernst Mach on Musical Consonance

    • Gianni Zanarini
    Pages 135-150

  9. The Bild-Conception of Physical Theories from Helmholtz to Hertz

    • Salvo D’agostino
    Pages 151-166

  10. Representation in Early Husserl

    • Karl Schuhmann
    Pages 167-184

  11. Contents, Psycho-Physical Products and Representations. Some Notes on the Theories of Kazimierz Twardowski

    • Jens Cavallin
    Pages 185-208

  12. G.F. Stout’s Philosophical Psychology

    • Elizabeth R. Valentine
    Pages 209-223

  13. Otto Selz and the Würzburg School

    • Theo Herrmann, Steffi Katz
    Pages 225-235

  14. The Instrumental Model of Language in Karl Bühler

    • Serena Cattaruzza
    Pages 237-250

  15. The Concept of Perceptual ‘Field’ and the Revolution in Cognition Caused by Köhler’s Physische Gestalten

    • Alf C. Zimmer
    Pages 251-267

  16. Consciousness and Actuality in Whiteheadian Ontology

    • David Woodruff Smith
    Pages 269-297

  17. Kurt Lewin and the Rise of ‘Cognitive Sciences’ in Germany: Cassirer, Bühler, Reichenbach

    • Wolfgang Wildgen
    Pages 299-332

  18. Children’s Drawings as Sensible Probes into the Realm of Representations

    • Ruggero Pierantoni
    Pages 333-355

  19. Back Matter

    Pages 357-369
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About this book

Current debate in cognitive science, from robotics to analysis of vision, deals with problems like the perception of form, the structure and formation of mental images and their modelling, the ecological development of artificial intelligence, and cognitive analysis of natural language. It focuses in particular on the presence of a hierarchy of intellectual constructions in different formats of representation.
These diverse approaches, which share a common assumption of the inner nature of representation, call for a new epistemology - even a new psychophysics - based on a theory of reference which is intrinsically cognitive. As a contribution to contemporary research, the reading presents the core of theories developed in Central Europe between the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries by philosophers, physicists, psychologists and semanticists who shared a dynamic approach and a pronounced concern with problems of interaction and dependence. These theories offer innovative solutions to some of the epistemological and philosophical problems currently at the centre of debate, like part-whole, theory of relations, and conceptual and linguistic categorization.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Trento, Italy

    Liliana Albertazzi

  • Central European Foundation, Bolzano, Italy

    Liliana Albertazzi

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Dawn of Cognitive Science

  • Book Subtitle: Early European Contributors

  • Editors: Liliana Albertazzi

  • Series Title: Synthese Library

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-9656-5

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2001

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-6799-4Published: 28 February 2001

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-5646-7Published: 15 December 2010

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-015-9656-5Published: 17 April 2013

  • Series ISSN: 0166-6991

  • Series E-ISSN: 2542-8292

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VI, 370

  • Topics: Philosophy of Mind, History, general, Philosophy of Language, Epistemology

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