Paolo Bozzi’s Experimental Phenomenology

Ivana Bianchi was a close collaborator of Paolo Bozzi in his last years and is Associate Professor of General Psychology, University of Macerata, Italy. Richard Davies teaches theoretical philosophy at the University of Bergamo, Italy. He previously held positions at Trinity College, University of Cambridge, UK.

‘Bozzi was an original whose thinking did not observe conventional boundaries. The same may be said of this collection of elegant original essays inspired by Bozzi’s writings. It offers the reader the prospect of a rich and challenging intellectual feast.’ William Epstein, Emeritus Professor, University of Wisconsin, USA‘Paolo Bozzi was an unusual and original psychologist and philosopher, who developed a distinctive picture of the psychology and the phenomenology of perception, in particular in its connection to the philosophical question of realism. Yet his work is not as widely known as it should be. This volume of his essays, supplemented by commentaries by contemporary experts, is an invaluable resource, and will surely help in giving Bozzi’s work the wider recognition it deserves.’ Tim Crane, Professor of Philosophy, Central European University, Hungary

• Part I 1. Experimental Phenomenology Translated and commented by Ivana Bianchi 2. On some paradoxes of current perceptual theories Commented by Sergei Gepshtein 3. Phenomenal experience, epistemic experience and psychological experience. Notes towards an epistemology of the phenomenological experimental method. Translated by Richard Davies and commented by Maurizio Ferraris Part II 4. The stream of consciousness, or the events under observation Translated by Achille Varzi and commented by Richard Davies 5. Untimely meditations on the relation between self and non-self Translated by Alessio Moretti and commented by Robert Kelly and Barry Smith 6. Logical analysis of the psychophysical (L-R) scheme Translated by Richard Davies and commented by Francesco Orilia and Michele Paolini Paoletti 7. Five varieties of stimulus error Translated and commented by Roberto Casati 8. Seeing As Translated and commented by Kevin Mulligan Part III 9. Phenomenological descriptions and physical-geometrical descriptions Translated and commented by Ugo Savardi 10. Interobservation as a method for experimental phenomenology Translated and commented by Michael Kubovy Part IV 11. Phenomenological analysis of pendular harmonic motion & the conditions for "natural" motion along inclined planes Translated by Paola Bressan and Paolo Gaudiano and commented by Marco Bertamini. 12. A new factor of perceptual grouping: demonstration in terms of pure experimental phenomenology. Translated and commented by Luigi Burigana 13. Two factors of unification for musical notes: closeness in time and closeness in tone. Translated by Luisa Zecchinelli and Richard Davies and commented by Luisa Zecchinelli 14. Observations on some cases of phenomenal transparency obtained with line drawings Translated by Ivana Bianchi and Richard Davies and commented by Daniele Zavagno 15. Original observations on certain characteristics of afterimages Translated by Tiziano Agostini and commented by Tiziano Agostini and Alessandra Galmonte 16. Tertiary Qualities Translated and commented by Ian Verstegen and Carlo Maria Fossaluzza AFTERTHOUGHTS 17. Experimental Phenomenology: A Historical Profile. Commented by Alan Costall 18. What is still living and what has died of the Gestalt approach to the analysis of perception. Commented by Johan Wagemans