The Reciprocity of Perceiver and Environment: The Evolution of James J. Gibson's Ecological Psychology

ISBN-13: 9781138200395 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 418 str.

Opis

Originally published in 1987, this title intended to historically reveal, through tracing Gibson's development, the substance of his views and how they bore upon general philosophical issues in theories of knowledge, and to investigate in detail the historical context of Gibson's theoretical position within psychology. Though the author has included a history of Gibson's perceptual research and experimentation, the focus is to explicate the 'dynamic abstract form' of Gibson's ecological approach. His emphasis is philosophical and theoretical, attempting to bring out the direction Gibson was moving in and how such changes could restructure the theoretical fabric of psychology. He devotes considerable attention to the Greeks, Medievalists, and the founders of the Scientific Revolution. This is because Gibson's theoretical challenge runs deep into the structure of western thought. The authors' central goal was to set Gibson's ecological theory within the historical context of fundamental philosophical-scientific issues.

Spis treści

Introduction  Part 1: The Philosophy of Knowledge and the Science of Perception  1. Ecological Psychology and Mind-Matter Dualism  2. Pre-Socratic Philosophy and Science  3. Platonic and Aristotelian Philosophy  4. Medieval Psychology, Optics, and Philosophy  Part 2: The Psychology and Biology of Knowledge  5. The Scientific Revolution  6. Berkeley and Empiricist Psychology  7. Nineteenth Century Structural Psychology  8. Evolution and Functional Psychology  9. Gestalt Psychology  10. The Antecedents of Gibson’s Psychophysics  Part 3: The Psychophysics of Perception  11. The Genesis of Gibson’s Psychophysics  12. Gibson’s "Perception of the Visual World"  13. Gibson’s Psychophysics  14. The Genesis of Ecological Psychology  Part 4: Ecological Psychology and Perceptual Epistemology  15. Gibson’s "Senses Considered as Perceptual Systems"  16. The Development of Gibson’s Ecological Psychology  17. Gibson’s Ontology and Epistemology  18. Gibson’s "Ecological Approach to Visual Perception".  Epilogue.  References.  Author Index.  Subject Index.

O autorze

Thomas J. Lombardo