Friday, January 20, 2006

Old and New

Harry Binswanger is giving a lecture this summer on perception:

"By integrating Objectivism with recent scientific work in the psychology of perception, especially that of the late J. J. Gibson, Dr. Binswanger provides a new perspective on perception as an active, physically determined process.".

I'm not sure how new this perspective is, since David Kelley already wrote a whole book defending the Objectivist theory of perception - with lots of citations to the work of James J. Gibson.

In 1981, excerpts from this book even appeared in a journal published and edited by Binswanger.

I wonder if it's his intention
To even give Kelley a mention.

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