In the Eye's Mind: Vision and the Helmholtz-Hering ControversyOne of the most persistent controversies of modern science has dealt with human visual perception. It erupted in Germany during the 1860s as a dispute between physiologists Hermann von Helmholtz, Ewald Hering, and their schools. Well into the twentieth century these groups warred over the origins of our capacity to perceive space, over the retinal mechanisms that mediate color sensations, and over the role of mind, experience, and inference in vision. Here R. Steven Turner explores the impassioned exchanges of those rival schools, both to illuminate the clash of theory and to explore the larger role of controversy in the development of science. Controversy, he suggests, is constitutive of scientific change, and he uses the Helmholtz-Hering dispute to illustrate how polemics and tacit negotiation shape evolving theoretical stances. |
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... tion of this work . I am especially indebted to Mitchell Ash , Gary Bowden , Thomas Broman , David Cahan , Sabine Fahrenbach , Gerald Geison , Gary Hatfield , Godelieve van Heteren , Frederic Holmes , Dorothea Jameson , John Krauskopf ...
... tion " -- something imposed upon sensory data by the understanding rather than discovered in the world by the visual or the tactile sense . In the nineteenth century the legion of theorists who reacted to Kant frequently interpreted ...
... tion , while accepting with Volkmann the broad influence of psychologi- cal factors in fusion . Peter Ludwig Panum , professor of physiology at Kiel ( later Copen- hagen ) , disagreed with Volkmann on several points . He derided what he ...
... tion during the early 1860s . Ophthalmologist August Classen in Lubeck attacked the theory of identity in 1863 from a projectionist standpoint , and , much more important , Helmholtz's assistant at Heidelberg , the young Wilhelm Wundt ...
... tion that the corresponding points are distributed regularly and symmet- rically about the two foveas , and that the vertical meridians of the two spherical retinas remain vertical . But what is the horopter ? Nagel pointed out that the ...
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In the Eye's Mind: Vision and the Helmholtz-Hering Controversy R. S. Turner No preview available - 2016 |
In the Eye's Mind: Vision and the Helmholtz-Hering Controversy Roy Steven Turner No preview available - 1994 |
In the Eye's Mind: Vision and the Helmholtz-Hering Controversy R. S. Turner No preview available - 2014 |