Shapes of Forms: From Gestalt Psychology and Phenomenology to Ontology and Mathematics - Synthese Library 1999 edition

Marc Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes. Table of Contents: Form Aesthetics. Introduction; L. Albertazzi. Experimental Phenomenology: A Historical Profile; P. Bozzi. What is Form? Contributions of Psychology to an Old Epistemological Problem; A. Zimmer. Forms and Events; G. B. Vicario. Towards a Field Theory of Figural Form; M. Stadler, et al. On Pragnanz; R. Luccio. Formal Characteristics in Verbal Description and Spatial Representation; M. Massironi, M. C. Levorato. Forms in Algebras, and Their Interpretations: Some Historical and Philosophical Features; I. Grattan-Guinness. An Essay on the Notion of Schema; A. Peruzzi. Qua-Theories; R. Poli. Form Metaphysics; L. Albertazzi. Ontological Categories; J. Sowa. On Forms of Objects; J. Jadacki."

Contributor Bio:  Albertazzi, Liliana Liliana Albertazzi is Associate Professor in the Faculty of Cognitive Science at Trento University, Italy.