Gary Hatfield
Biographic Data
| ID | 970535 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gary Hatfield |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gary |
| FAMILY NAME | Hatfield |
| SIGNATURE | HATFIELD G |
| AFFILIATIONS | California University of Pennsylvania |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0876-7073 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 41 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 88 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 37 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1979 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Gibson and Gestalt: (Re)presentation, Processing, and Construction
The Cambridge Descartes Lexicon
The Cambridge Descartes Lexicon is the definitive reference source on René Descartes, 'the father of modern philosophy' and arguably among the most important philosophers of all time. Examining the full range of Descartes' achievements and legacy, it includes 256 in-depth entries that explain key concepts relating to his thought. Cumulatively they uncover interpretative disputes, trace his influences, and explain how his work was received by crit…
The Routledge Guidebook to Descartes' Meditations
Descartes is widely regarded to be the father of modern philosophy and his Meditations is among the most important philosophical texts ever written. The Routledge Guidebook to Descartes’ Meditations introduces the major themes in Descartes’ great book and acts as a companion for reading this key work, examining: The context of Descartes’ work and the background to his writing Each separate part of the text in relation to its goals, meanings and i…
Psychological Experiments and Phenomenal Experience in Size and Shape Constancy
Some experiments in perceptual psychology measure perceivers’ phenomenal experiences of objects versus their cognitive assessments of object properties. Analyzing such experiments, this article responds to Pizlo’s claim that much work on shape constancy before 1985 confused problems of shape ambiguity with problems of shape constancy. Pizlo fails to grasp the logic of experimental designs directed toward phenomenal aspects of shape constancy. In …
Psychology, Epistemology, and the Problem of the External World
Evolution of Mind, Brain, and Culture
Koffka, Köhler, and the “crisis” in psychology
On a discovery whereby any new critique of pure reason is to be made superfluous by an older one (1790)
Kant's short treatise, Über eine Entdeckung, nach der alle neue Kritik der reinen Vernunft durch eine ältere entbehrlich gemacht werden soll (On a Discovery whereby Any New Critique of Pure Reason Is to Be Made Superfluous by an Older One, henceforth to be referred to as On a Discovery) appeared in April, 1790, simultaneously with the Critique of Judgment, to which it alludes in its closing pages. It is a polemical piece, containing Kant's respon…
Prolegomena to any future metaphysics that will be able to come forward as science (1783)
The Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics is the preeminent synopsis in the history of philosophy. Kant completed it about fifteen months after the Critique of Pure Reason was published. He wanted to present his critical philosophy concisely and accessibly, for "future teachers" of metaphysics. He also wanted to convince his fellow metaphysicians "that it is unavoidably necessary to suspend their work for the present," until they have determined …
Metaphysical foundations of natural science (1786)
The Metaphysische Anfangsgründe der Naturwissenschaft (hereinafter: Metaphysical Foundations) first appeared in 1786 (with second and third printings in 1787 and 1800 respectively). This work thus belongs to the most creative decade of Kant's so-called critical period: the decade of the first edition of the Critique of Pure Reason (1781), the Prolegomena (1783), the Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals (1785), the second edition of the Critiqu…
What real progress has metaphysics made in Germany since the time of Leibniz and Wolff? (1793/1804)
Welches sind die wirklichen Fortschritte, die die Metaphysik seit Leibnitzens und Wolf's Zeiten in Deutschland gemacht hat? (What Real Progress Has Metaphysics Made in Germany since the Time of Leibniz and Wolff?, henceforth to be referred to as Progress) constitutes Kant's projected, but never submitted or even completed, contribution to the prize essay contest on that topic announced by the Académie Royal des Sciences et des Belles-Lettres in B…
Rationalist Theories of Sense Perception and Mind–Body Relation
This chapter contains sections titled: Sense Perception as a Natural Process Metaphysical, Epistemological, and Functional Aspects of Perception Sense, Mind, and Knowledge in Seventeenth-Century Rationalism
The Passions of the soul and Descartes’s machine psychology
The History of Philosophy as Philosophy
Philosophers have been talking about their predecessors since before Plato and Aristotle. The history of philosophy as a sub- discipline of philosophy has been recognized since the eighteenth century, when subdivisions beyond the traditional logic, meta physics, natural philosophy, and moral philosophy became generally established. Philosophers have addressed the shape of philosophy ‘s history as a philosophical topic since Kant and Hegel.
Immanuel Kant: Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics: That Will Be Able to Come Forward as Science: With Selections from the Critique of Pure Reason
Kant is the central figure of modern philosophy. He sought to rebuild philosophy from the ground up, and he succeeded in permanently changing its problems and methods. This revised edition of the Prolegomena, which is the best introduction to the theoretical side of his philosophy, presents his thought clearly by paying careful attention to his original language. Also included are selections from the Critique of Pure Reason, which fill out and ex…
Routledge Philosophy GuideBook to Descartes and the Meditations
Rene Descartes is generally accepted as the "father of modern philosophy", and his Meditations is perhaps the most famous philosophical text ever written.In this Routledge Philosophy GuideBook, Gary Hatfield guides the reader through the text of the Meditations, providing commentary and analysis throughout. He assesses Descartes' importance in the history of philosophy and his continuing relevance to contemporary thought.Descartes and the Meditat…
What Were Kant’s Aims in the Deduction
Immanuel Kant: Theoretical Philosophy after 1781
This volume, originally published in 2002, assembles the historical sequence of writings that Kant published between 1783 and 1796 to popularize, summarize, amplify and defend the doctrines of his masterpiece, the Critique of Pure Reason of 1781. The best known of them, the Prolegomena, is often recommended to beginning students, but the other texts are also vintage Kant and are important sources for a fully rounded picture of Kant's intellectual…
Theoretical Philosophy after 1781
The Prolegomena and the Critiques of Pure Reason
This article first refines the question of Kant's relation to Hume's skepticism, and then considers the evidence for Kant's attitude toward Hume in three contexts: the A Critique, the Prolegomena, and the B Critique. My thesis is that in the A Critique Kant viewed skepticism positively, as a necessary reaction to dogmatism and a spur toward critique. In his initial statement of the critical philosophy Kant treated Hume as an ally in curbing dogma…
The Brain's “New” Science: Psychology, Neurophysiology, and Constraint
There is a strong philosophical intuition that direct study of the brain can and will constrain the development of psychological theory. When this intuition is tested against case studies on the neurophysiology and psychology of perception and memory, it turns out that psychology has led the way toward knowledge of neurophysiology. An abstract argument is developed to show that psychology can and must lead the way in neuroscientific study of ment…
Kant and Empirical Psychology in the 18Th Century
The Natural and the Normative: Theories of Spatial Perception from Kant to Helmholtz
Prolegomena to any future metaphysics that will be able to come forward as science with selections from the Critique of pure reason: With Selections from the Critique of Pure Reason
Kant is the central figure of modern philosophy. He sought to rebuild philosophy from the ground up, and he succeeded in permanently changing its problems and methods. This new translation of the Prolegomena, which is the best introduction to his philosophy, presents his thought clearly by paying careful attention to his original language. Also included are selections from the Critique of Pure Reason, which fill out and explicate some of Kant's c…
In the Eye's Mind: Vision and the Helmholtz-Hering Controversy . R. Steven Turner
Review of: R. Steven Turner, In the Eye's Mind: Vision and the Helmholtz-Hering Controversy. xiv + 338 pp., frontis., illus., figs., tables, bibl., index. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1994
Prolegomena to any future metaphysics that will be able to come forward as science with selections from the Critique of pure reason: With Selections from the Critique of Pure Reason
Kant is the central figure of modern philosophy. He sought to rebuild philosophy from the ground up, and he succeeded in permanently changing its problems and methods. This new translation of the Prolegomena, which is the best introduction to his philosophy, presents his thought clearly by paying careful attention to his original language. Also included are selections from the Critique of Pure Reason, which fill out and explicate some of Kant's c…
The Sensory Core and the Medieval Foundations of Early Modern Perceptual Theory
This article seeks the origin, in the theories of Ibn al-Haytham (Alhazen), Descartes, and Berkeley, of two-stage theories of spatial perception, which hold that visual perception involves both an immediate representation of the proximal stimulus in a two-dimensional ‘‘sensory core’’ and also a subsequent perception of the three dimensional world. The works of Ibn al-Haytham, Descartes, and Berkeley already frame the major theoretical options tha…
Kant and Empirical Psychology in the 18Th Century
Representation and content in some (actual) theories of perception
The Passions of the soul and Descartes’s machine psychology
What Were Kant’s Aims in the Deduction
Epistemology and Cognition
Introduction Part I: Theoretical Foundations 1. The Elements of Epistemology 2. Skepticism 3. Knowledge 4. Justification: A Rule Framework 5. Justification and Reliability 6. Problem Solving, Power, and Speed 7. Truth and Realism 8. The Problem of Content Part II: Assessing Our Cognitive Resources 9. Perception 10. Memory 11. Constraints on Representation 12. Internal Codes 13. Deductive Reasoning 14. Probability judgments 15. Acceptance and Unce…
The status of the minimum principle in the theoretical analysis of visual perception
We examine a number of investigations of perceptual economy or, more specifically, of minimum tendencies and minimum principles in the visual perception of form, depth, and motion. A minimum tendency is a psychophysical finding that perception tends toward simplicity, as measured in accordance with a specified metric. A minimum principle is a theoretical construct imputed to the visual system to explain minimum tendencies. After examining a numbe…
Gibson and Gestalt: (Re)presentation, Processing, and Construction
Psychological Experiments and Phenomenal Experience in Size and Shape Constancy
Some experiments in perceptual psychology measure perceivers’ phenomenal experiences of objects versus their cognitive assessments of object properties. Analyzing such experiments, this article responds to Pizlo’s claim that much work on shape constancy before 1985 confused problems of shape ambiguity with problems of shape constancy. Pizlo fails to grasp the logic of experimental designs directed toward phenomenal aspects of shape constancy. In …
Koffka, Köhler, and the “crisis” in psychology
The Brain's “New” Science: Psychology, Neurophysiology, and Constraint
There is a strong philosophical intuition that direct study of the brain can and will constrain the development of psychological theory. When this intuition is tested against case studies on the neurophysiology and psychology of perception and memory, it turns out that psychology has led the way toward knowledge of neurophysiology. An abstract argument is developed to show that psychology can and must lead the way in neuroscientific study of ment…
A Theory of Method. Husain Sarkar
The Sensory Core and the Medieval Foundations of Early Modern Perceptual Theory
This article seeks the origin, in the theories of Ibn al-Haytham (Alhazen), Descartes, and Berkeley, of two-stage theories of spatial perception, which hold that visual perception involves both an immediate representation of the proximal stimulus in a two-dimensional ‘‘sensory core’’ and also a subsequent perception of the three dimensional world. The works of Ibn al-Haytham, Descartes, and Berkeley already frame the major theoretical options tha…
Descartes's Meditations as Cognitive Exercises
Gary Hatfield DESCARTES'S MEDITATIONS AS COGNITIVE EXERCISES DESCARTES'S Meditations on First Philosophy have the form of meditations . This fact about the literary form of Descartes's chief work of metaphysics has been noted before and is now receiving growing attention .1 Part of this attention derives from a more general interest in the literary forms of philosophical works, an interest that no doubt has been spurred by the efforts of literary…
The status of the minimum principle in the theoretical analysis of visual perception
We examine a number of investigations of perceptual economy or, more specifically, of minimum tendencies and minimum principles in the visual perception of form, depth, and motion. A minimum tendency is a psychophysical finding that perception tends toward simplicity, as measured in accordance with a specified metric. A minimum principle is a theoretical construct imputed to the visual system to explain minimum tendencies. After examining a numbe…
The Senses and the Fleshless Eye: The Meditations as Cognitive Exercises
According to the reading offered here, Descartes' use of the meditative mode of writing was not a mere rhetorical device to win an audience accustomed to the spiritual retreat. His choice of the literary form of the spiritual exercise was consonant with, if not determined by, his theory of the mind and of the basis of human knowledge. Since Descartes' conception of knowledge implied the priority of the intellect over the senses, and indeed the pr…
A Theory of Method. Husain Sarkar
Representation and content in some (actual) theories of perception
Reason, Nature, and God in Descartes
The Argument The present paper argues that the metaphysical doctrine of the creation of the eternal truths constituted a philosophical response to what Descartes considered to be the overly close relationship between philosophy and theology. The paper examines Descartes' “metaphysical turn,” focusing on the radical doubt and the creation of the eternal truths. The radical doubt, it is argued, was most important not as a device for defeating skept…
Epistemology and Cognition
Introduction Part I: Theoretical Foundations 1. The Elements of Epistemology 2. Skepticism 3. Knowledge 4. Justification: A Rule Framework 5. Justification and Reliability 6. Problem Solving, Power, and Speed 7. Truth and Realism 8. The Problem of Content Part II: Assessing Our Cognitive Resources 9. Perception 10. Memory 11. Constraints on Representation 12. Internal Codes 13. Deductive Reasoning 14. Probability judgments 15. Acceptance and Unce…
Scottish Common Sense in Germany, 1768-1800: A Contribution to the History of Critical Philosophy. Manfred Kuehn
A review of: Manfred Kuehn. Scottish Common Sense in Germany, 1768-1800: A Contribution to the History of Critical Philosophy. (McGill-Queen's Studies in the History of Ideas.) xiv + 300 pp., app., bibl., index. Kingston, Ont./Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1987. $35
Theories at Work: On the Structure and Functioning of Theories in Science, in Particular during the Copernican Revolution. Marinus Dirk Stafleu
Il dualismo da Cartesio a Leibniz: Cartesio, Cordemoy, La Forge, Malebranche, Leibniz. Salvatore Nicolosi
The Natural and the Normative: Theories of Spatial Perception from Kant to Helmholtz
Journal Article Book Reviews Get access The Natural and the Normative: Theories of Spatial Perception from Kant to Helmholtz- By Gary Hatfield. (London: MIT Press, 1991. Pp. xii + 366. Price £31.50.) Christopher Longuet-Higgins Christopher Longuet-Higgins University of Sussex Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 42, Issue 168, July 1992, Pages 395–396, https://doi.org/10.2307…
Die Philosophie des 17. Jahrhunderts. Volume 3: England . Jean-Pierre Schobinger
William Whewell: A Composite Portrait . Menachem Fisch, Simon Schaffer
The Natural and the Normative. Theories of Spatial Perception from Kant to Helmholtz
Psychology as a Natural Science in the Eighteenth Century
La psychologie, en tant que science naturelle, prend sa source dans la «physique » ou «philosophie naturelle » aristotélicienne de l'âme. C. Wolff a situé la psychologie sous le régime de la métaphysique; au même niveau que la cosmologie. Les penseurs écossais l'ont intégrée à la philosophie morale, mais ont distingué ses lois « physiques » des lois morales proprement dites (qui visent à régler la conduite). Plusieurs penseurs allemands ont cherc…
In the Eye's Mind: Vision and the Helmholtz-Hering Controversy . R. Steven Turner
Review of: R. Steven Turner, In the Eye's Mind: Vision and the Helmholtz-Hering Controversy. xiv + 338 pp., frontis., illus., figs., tables, bibl., index. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1994
The Natural and the Normative: Theories of Spatial Perception from Kant to Helmholtz
Prolegomena to any future metaphysics that will be able to come forward as science with selections from the Critique of pure reason: With Selections from the Critique of Pure Reason
Kant is the central figure of modern philosophy. He sought to rebuild philosophy from the ground up, and he succeeded in permanently changing its problems and methods. This new translation of the Prolegomena, which is the best introduction to his philosophy, presents his thought clearly by paying careful attention to his original language. Also included are selections from the Critique of Pure Reason, which fill out and explicate some of Kant's c…
Kant and Empirical Psychology in the 18Th Century
The Brain's “New” Science: Psychology, Neurophysiology, and Constraint
There is a strong philosophical intuition that direct study of the brain can and will constrain the development of psychological theory. When this intuition is tested against case studies on the neurophysiology and psychology of perception and memory, it turns out that psychology has led the way toward knowledge of neurophysiology. An abstract argument is developed to show that psychology can and must lead the way in neuroscientific study of ment…
The Prolegomena and the Critiques of Pure Reason
This article first refines the question of Kant's relation to Hume's skepticism, and then considers the evidence for Kant's attitude toward Hume in three contexts: the A Critique, the Prolegomena, and the B Critique. My thesis is that in the A Critique Kant viewed skepticism positively, as a necessary reaction to dogmatism and a spur toward critique. In his initial statement of the critical philosophy Kant treated Hume as an ally in curbing dogma…
Immanuel Kant: Theoretical Philosophy after 1781
This volume, originally published in 2002, assembles the historical sequence of writings that Kant published between 1783 and 1796 to popularize, summarize, amplify and defend the doctrines of his masterpiece, the Critique of Pure Reason of 1781. The best known of them, the Prolegomena, is often recommended to beginning students, but the other texts are also vintage Kant and are important sources for a fully rounded picture of Kant's intellectual…
Theoretical Philosophy after 1781
Routledge Philosophy GuideBook to Descartes and the Meditations
Rene Descartes is generally accepted as the "father of modern philosophy", and his Meditations is perhaps the most famous philosophical text ever written.In this Routledge Philosophy GuideBook, Gary Hatfield guides the reader through the text of the Meditations, providing commentary and analysis throughout. He assesses Descartes' importance in the history of philosophy and his continuing relevance to contemporary thought.Descartes and the Meditat…
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