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Project

Perception and agency. Helmholtz's psycho-physiological optics as a forerunner of the contemporary agentive/sensorimotor approach to human vision
Code
01D23410
Duration
01 October 2010 → 30 September 2014
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
Research disciplines
  • Humanities and the arts
    • Theory and methodology of philosophy
    • Philosophy
    • Ethics
    • Other philosophy, ethics and religious studies not elsewhere classified
  • Social sciences
    • General psychology
Keywords
sensorimotor/enactive account perception Hermann von Helmholtz
 
Project description

This project will examine the historical continuity between Hermann von Helmholtz's pchycophysiological optics and the contemporary sensorimotor/enactive approach to perception. On the basis of an analysis of (i) Helmholtz's conceptualisation of the problem of perception and (ii) the philosphical background of his optics (historical part), a critical perspective will be offered on the sensorimotor/enactive approach (comparative/systematic part).