| Preface | 7 |
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| Dedication | 6 |
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| Contents | 9 |
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| The Field of Consciousness | 13 |
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| Editorial Introduction | 14 |
| I. Brief Background | 14 |
| II. The Modern Theory of Ideas | 16 |
| III. The Distrust of Perceptual Life | 18 |
| IV. The Flawed Epistemic Move | 20 |
| V. Husserls View of Whole-Part Relations: Gurwitschs Critique | 22 |
| VI. Thematic Organization | 26 |
| VII. The Phenomenon of Context | 28 |
| VIII. Summary | 33 |
| Author's Introduction | 35 |
| PART ONE General Problems of Organization in Consciousness | 45 |
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| Chapter I The Problem of Dimensional Differences Between Conjunctions of Phases of Experience | 46 |
| I. Serial and Dimensional Differences | 46 |
| II. The Problem of Dimensional Differences and the Philosophy of Radical Empiricism | 48 |
| III. Jamess Description of the Field of Consciousness | 52 |
| Chapter II Origin of Organization | 55 |
| I. Jamess Sensible Totals and Their Dissociation | 55 |
| II. Organization as an Autochthonous Feature of Experience | 60 |
| III. The Problem of Organization in Piagets Psychology | 66 |
| 1. The Concept of ''Schemata'' | 66 |
| 2. Assimilation, Accommodation, and the Problem of Segregation | 71 |
| 3. Historical Continuity of Mental Development | 74 |
| 4. Structural Organization as an Immanent Feature of Experience | 78 |
| IV. Reformulation of the Problem of Organization | 81 |
| Chapter III Grouping and Organization of Sense-Data | 86 |
| I. von Ehrenfelss Concept of Form-Qualities | 86 |
| II. Theories of the School of Graz | 89 |
| 1. Objects of Higher Order | 89 |
| 2. The Theory of ''Production'' | 93 |
| III. Sensuous Qualities of a Higher Order | 99 |
| 1. Husserl''s Concept of ''Figurale Momente'' | 99 |
| 2. Stumpf''''s Concept of ''Verschmelzung'' | 106 |
| PART TWO Some Principles of Gestalt Psychology | 114 |
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| Chapter I Some Principles of Gestalt Psychology | 115 |
| I. The Constancy-Hypothesis and Its Abandonment | 115 |
| II. Dependence of Perception on External and Internal Conditions | 120 |
| III. On Acquisition by Experience | 124 |
| 1. The Traditional and the Gestalt Theoretical Concepts of Experience | 124 |
| 2. Acquisition of Empirical Meanings | 126 |
| 3. Discrimination and Segregation | 129 |
| 4. Impossibility of an ''Intuitionistic'' Philosophy | 131 |
| IV. Reformulation of the Problem of Gestalt (Form) Qualities | 132 |
| V. Types of Gestalt-Contextures | 133 |
| 1. Intervals and Terminals | 133 |
| 2. Figure and Ground | 137 |
| VI. Functional Significance | 141 |
| 1. The Concept of Gestalt | 141 |
| 2. Experiential and Experimental Evidence | 144 |
| 3. Qualification of Gestalt-Constituents by Their Functional Significance | 147 |
| VII. On Successive Comparison | 150 |
| 1. Koffka's Discussion of Stumpf''s Paradox | 150 |
| 2. James''s Concepts of ''Sensation of Difference'' and ''Sensation of Likeness'' | 153 |
| VIII. Gestalt-Coherence | 158 |
| 1. Interdependence of the Constituents of a Gestalt-Contexture | 158 |
| 2. Segregation and Unification of Gestalt-Contextures | 163 |
| IX. Bergsons Concept of Qualitative Multiplicities | 165 |
| X. Wholes and Parts | 169 |
| XI. The Law of Good Continuation | 175 |
| PART THREE Some Fundamental Concepts of Constitutive Phenomenology | 179 |
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| Chapter I Some Fundamental Concepts of Constitutive Phenomenology | 180 |
| I. The Psychological and the Phenomenological Approach to Consciousness | 180 |
| II. The Root of The Constancy-Hypothesis | 184 |
| III. The Phenomenological Reduction | 187 |
| IV. Phenomenological Interpretation of the Dismissal of the Constancy-Hypothesis | 191 |
| V. The Perceptual Noema | 196 |
| 1. Act of Perception | Perceptual Noema |
| 2. The Perceptual Noema as Perceptual Meaning | 199 |
| 3. The Object as Noematic Phenomenon | 204 |
| VI. Jamess Concept of Object of Thought and Husserls Concept of Noema | 207 |
| VII. Problems of Ideation | 212 |
| 1. Eidetic Sciences | 212 |
| 2. The Apprehension of Eide and Eidetic Relations by the Method of ''Free Variation'' | 214 |
| PART FOUR Phenomenological Theory of Perception | 221 |
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| Chapter I The Perceptual Process | 223 |
| I. Perceptual Adumbration | 223 |
| II. Essential Insufficiency of Every Single Perception | 225 |
| III. The Condition of the Unity of the Perceptual Process | 228 |
| IV. Open Infinity of the Perceptual Process | 234 |
| V. Characterization of the Perceptual Process in Terms of Gestalt Theory | 237 |
| VI. Some Principles of Transcendental Phenomenology | 240 |
| 1. Reference of Objects to Consciousness | 240 |
| 2. The Presumptive Existence of the Perceptual World | 243 |
| Chapter II Analysis of the Perceptual Noema | 248 |
| I. Sense-Experience and Perception | 248 |
| II. Descriptive Orientation of Phenomenological Analyses | 251 |
| III. The Inner Horizon | 254 |
| IV. Open Possibilities | 264 |
| V. The Theories of J. Ward and G. F. Stout | 266 |
| 1. Implicit Ideas | 267 |
| 2. Stout's Meaning-Theory of Perception and His Concept of Retentiveness | 271 |
| 3. Koffka's Criticism of Stout's Theory | 277 |
| 4. Meaning and Carrier of Meaning | 280 |
| VI. Husserls Dualistic Theory of Perception | 284 |
| VII. Gestalt Theoretical Account of the Perceptual Noema | 291 |
| 1. Formulation of the Problem | 291 |
| 2. The Structure of the Perceptual Noema | 293 |
| Chapter III Noetic Analysis of Perception | 299 |
| I. Anticipations and Expectancies | 299 |
| II. Husserls Concept of Potentialities of Consciousness | 304 |
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