Space-perception and the philosophy of science
Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Phenomenology, hermeneutics, and philosophy of science. Introduction ; Philosophies of perception ; Phenomenology ; Perception, horizon, world, intentionality ; Being-in-the-world: body ; Science and the perceptual world ; Models, metaphors, and the "things themselves" -- Hyperbolic visual space. Introduction to visual space. Introduction ; Appearances in hyperbolic visual space ; Quasi-stable euclidean/non-euclidean phenomena ; The gateway arch -- Visual space: search for a model. Kant: space as a priori for experience ; Pictorial spaces ; How to represent pictorial spaces ; Arnheim's "pyramidal space" ; Pure geometries ; Non-Euclidean visual space ; Luneburg's theory of hyperbolic visual space ; Free mobility of forms ; Failure of Luneburg's model ; Hermeneutical visual model ; Stability of visual metric -- Hyperbolic space: the model. Model of hyperbolic visual space ; The true point and the "Newtonian oasis" ; Finite and infinite visual spaces ; Horizon sphere ; "Pyramidal structure" of finite visual space ; Determination of parameters of model ; Near zone and distant zone ; Near zone ; Distant zone ; Horizontal planes ; Frontal planes ; Spheroidal world of sight" ; Quasi-stable Euclidean/hypberbolic phenomena ; Near zone and distant zone in the everyday world -- Evidence from perceptual illusions. Informal evidence ; Perceptual illusions ; Two-dimensional illusions ; Illusions of rotation and optical images ; Three-dimensional illusions ; Illusions of rotation and optical images ; Three-dimensional illusions ; The moon illusion ; The radiant sun ; Other confirmatory evidence -- Evidence from the history of art. Pictures and pictured objects ; Artificial perspective ; Perspective as "symbolic form" ; "Fishbone" perspective and curved space ; From image-structure to space-structure: debate ; Influence of picture surface ; Ambiguity of pictorial space ; Curvilinear synthetic perspective ; As depicting motion or curved space? ; The pictorial space of Vincent van Gogh ; Part I, conclusions -- Toward a philosophy of science based on the primacy of perception. Nature of perception. Perception and percept ; Phenomenology of the perceptual object ; Physical causality and perception ; Imagination, memory, hallucination, illusion ; Perception and past experience ; Horizons of geometrical perception ; Realism of everyday life ; Perceptual judgments and descriptive criteria ; Anomalous hyperbolic perception ; Natural vs. conventionalist geometrry -- Causal physiological model of perception. Physical and physiological basis of perception ; Physiological moment ; Psychic moment ; Somatic information channel ; Ambiguity of stimulus-object relation ; Inescapable reference to life world -- Perception as mirroring: realism. Perception as mirroring of nature ; Pictorial reality ; Euclidean structure and prepedicative intentionality ; Possibility of non-Euclidean perception ; Poincaré-Reichenbach conventionalism ; Percepts and perceptual judgments ; Veridical perceptual judgments ; Hallucinatory perceptual objects ; Illusory perceptual objects ; Anomalous objects: distorted or transformed? ; Scientific observer as universal observer ; Visual observer as privileged observer -- Horizonal realism. Scientific realism ; Horizonal realism ; Context ; Context-dependency and quantum logic ; Objectivity ; Reduction of manifest to scientific image: problem ; Manifest objects as real ; Perception of scientific entities ; Scientific observation as 'reading' of 'text' ; Hermeneutics ; Observer as embodied ; Opacity of scientific 'texts' ; Observation as theory-laden ; The ontological intent of science ; Scientific instrument as "readable technology" ; Observers and quantum mechanics ; The ontological achievement of science ; Human embodiment in readable technologies ; Furniture of the Earth and universe -- Identity theories and psychobiology. Monistic realism and identity theories. Psychobiology ; Metaresearch principles of psychobiology -- Hermeneutics and the history of science. Hermeneutical circle ; Natural science as nonhermeneutical ; Role of hermeneutics in natural science ; Hermeneutics and the history of science ; The history of science and progress in knowledge ; Hermeneutical model of rational progress: linear part ; Hermeneutical model of rational progress: dialectical part ; Modes of rationality compared ; Models and their descriptive use ; Science in cultural perspective -- Euclidean space as a scientific artifact. The everyday world as artifact of the scientific imagination ; Euclidean visual space as a scientific artifact -- World possibilities. Hyperbolic worlds ; General conditions of possibility of worlds -- Retrospective. Hermeneutical character of the study ; General philosophical theory ; Specific applications and conclusions ; Visual spaces ; Manifest and scientific images ; Identity theories ; Hermeneutics and the history of science and perception ; World-building -- Appendix. Hyperbolic visual map of physical space. Introduction ; Hermeneutical Luneburg model: configuration-dependent hyperbolic space ; Physical space ; Visual space ; Radial distance in visual space ; Size-depth match ; Contraction and dilation of space ; Orientation of sides of reference tripod relative to visual horizontal and vertical ; Discussion ; Tilting of planes in visual space ; Discussion ; Perspectival projections in visual space ; Depth-distance ratios in visual space ; Illustration of visual shapes ; Illustration ; Tables -- Notes -- References -- Index.
