Fenomenologia teorica e sperimentale e scienza della visione

Abstract

In this theoretical paper, the claim is defended that the phenomenology of perception can be integrated into vision science. Varieties of theoretical and experimental phenomenology are presented to specify a minimal set of commitments. It is claimed that the phenomenological research into perception, be it delivered in the form of conceptual analysis or of experimental research, satisfies the epistemological and methodological substantive features of these commitments. A received view in the visual neurosciences and the objections against its elementarwise and reductionist stance are presented as an empirical case for the contribution that the integration of phenomenology into vision science could bring about. The relationships among models and mechanisms are discussed. It is argued that models endowed with linking propositions with phenomenological contents can provide the conceptual case for the integration of phenomenology into vision science to be carried out.