Background
Hatfield, Gary C. was born on November 25, 1951 in Wichita, Kansas, United States. Son of Chandler Bernard and Georgia Elizabeth (White) Hatfield.
( Gary Hatfield examines theories of spatial perception f...)
Gary Hatfield examines theories of spatial perception from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century and provides a detailed analysis of the works of Kant and Helmholtz, who adopted opposing stances on whether central questions about spatial perception were amenable to natural-scientific treatment. At stake were the proper understanding of the relationships among sensation, perception, and experience, and the proper methodological framework for investigating the mental activities of judgment, understanding, and reason issues which remain at the core of philosophical psychology and cognitive science. Hatfield presents these important issues as living philosophies of science that shape and are shaped by actual research programs, creating a complex and fascinating picture of the entire nineteenth-century battle between nativism and empiricism. His examination of Helmholtz's work in physiological optics and epistemology is a tour de force.
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Hatfield, Gary C. was born on November 25, 1951 in Wichita, Kansas, United States. Son of Chandler Bernard and Georgia Elizabeth (White) Hatfield.
Bachelor, Bachelor of Fine Arts, Wichita State University, 1974; Master of Arts, University of Wisconsin, 1976; Doctor of Philosophy, University of Wisconsin, 1979.
Assistant professor, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1979-1981; assistant professor, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, 1981-1987; associate professor, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 1987-1992; professor philosophy, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, since 1992.
( Gary Hatfield examines theories of spatial perception f...)
(Gary Hatfield examines theories of spatial perception fro...)
Member American Philosophical Association, History of Science Society, Philosophy of Science Association M C.