Shapes of Forms: From Gestalt Psychology and Phenomenology to Ontology and Mathematics
Author:   L. Albertazzi
Publisher:   Springer
Edition:   1999 ed.
Volume:   275
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9780792352464


Pages:   378
Publication Date:   31 December 1998
Format:   Hardback
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Shapes of Forms: From Gestalt Psychology and Phenomenology to Ontology and Mathematics


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The development of research connected with artificial intelligence and the cognitive sciences obliges us to confront further components of the traditional problem of form. In particular, the debate about bottom up and top down processes seems to suggest that the difference in cognitive processes is more a difference of degree than of kind internally to a form, such as a structure, consisting of different layers. Even if there is no single or fundamental theory of forms, in this volume the concept of form is analyzed in different fields (ranging from ontology to language, mathematics, and psychology) and in its different aspects according to a more modern theory of knowledge.

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Author:   L. Albertazzi
Publisher:   Springer
Imprint:   Springer
Edition:   1999 ed.
Volume:   275
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 2.20cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   1.590kg
ISBN:  

9780792352464


ISBN 10:   0792352467
Pages:   378
Publication Date:   31 December 1998
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

1. Form Aesthetics: Introduction.- 2. Experimental Phenomenology: A Historical Profile.- 3. What is Form? The Contributions of Psychology to an Old Epistemological Problem.- 4. Forms and Events.- 5. Towards a Theory of Figural Form.- 6. On Prägnanz.- 7. Formal Characteristics in Verbal Description and Spatial Representation.- 8. Forms in Algebras and their Interpretations: Some Historical and Philosophical Features.- 9. An Essay on the Notion of Schema.- 10. Qua-Theories.- 11. Form Metaphysics.- 12. Ontological Categories.- 13. On Forms of Objects.- Index of Names.

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