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Being and the Body: Embodiment in J.G. Fichte’s Transcendental Analysis of Consciousness Vrije Universiteit Brussel Ghent University
The aim of this paper is to present an in-depth inquiry into one of the most disregarded dimensions of Fichte's philosophy, i.e., the systematic place of embodiment in his transcendental epistemology. Highlighting the necessarily embodied nature of the constitution of the notion of thinghood or being in Fichte's philosophy could not only help pave the way for a more elegant understanding of the relation between idealism's and phenomenology's ...
Helmholtz’s Kant Revisited (Once More). The All-Pervasive Nature of Helmholtz's Struggle with Kant's Anschauung Vrije Universiteit Brussel Ghent University
In this analysis, the classical problem of Hermann von Helmholtz's (1821–1894) Kantianism is explored from a particular vantage point, that to my knowledge, has not received the attention it deserves notwithstanding its possible key role in disentangling Helmholtz's relation to Kant's critical project. More particularly, we will focus on Helmholtz's critical engagement with Kant's concept of intuition [Anschauung] and (the related issue of) his ...
Hermann von Helmholtz’s Empirico-Transcendentalism Reconsidered: Construction and Constitution in Helmholtz’s Psychology of the Object Vrije Universiteit Brussel
This paper aims at contributing to the ongoing efforts to get a firmer grasp of the systematic significance of the entanglement of idealism and empiricism in Helmholtz's work. Contrary to existing analyses, however, the focal point of the present exposition is Helmholtz's attempt to articulate a psychological account of objectification. Helmholtz's motive, as well as his solution to the problem of the object are outlined, and interpreted against ...
Perceptual Imagination as Anticipation in Helmholtz: Critical and Metacritical Dimensions in Helmholtz’s Account of Human Vision Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Voluntarism in Early Psychology: the Case of Hermann von Helmholtz Vrije Universiteit Brussel
The failure to recognize the programmatic similarity between (post-)Kantian German philosophy and early psychology has impoverished psychology's historical self-understanding to a great extent. This article aims to contribute to recent efforts to overcome the gaps in the historiography of contemporary psychology, which are the result of an empiricist bias. To this end, we present an analysis of the way in which Hermann von Helmholtz's theory of ...
Empirical Evidence for Freud’s theory of Primary Process Mentation in Acute Psychosis Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Freud (1895/1966; 1900/1953; 1915/1957) has proposed that primary process functioning is typical for acute psychosis. A nonverbal method, the 'Geocat' (Brakel, Kleinsorge, Snodgrass, & Shevrin, 2000), measures primary processes operationalized as attributional categorization, which considers exemplars as similar if particular features match, even if these components are arranged in a quite different configuration. With the use of GeoCat we ...
Some Preliminary Considerations on Helmholtz’s Fichte. Towards a Naturalized Epistemology of Constraint? Vrije Universiteit Brussel
In the present paper, I analyse the influence of Fichte’s philosophy on Helmholtz’s treatment of objectivity and objectification in perception. The exploration of the relationship between both philosophers, a relationship that has been somewhat disregarded in the Fichte-research, attempts to get a firmer grasp on the extent to which Helmholtz’s account of the objectification process in perception is based on Fichte’s Ego doctrine.