Description: Introduction: Back to the Origins.- The Primitives of Presentation. Wholes, Parts and Psychophysics.- The Politics of Thought: A Social History of the Debate between Wundt and the Wrzburg School.- Representation in Psychophysics.- Lotze on the Sensory Representation of Space.- Ernst Mach's Evolutionary Theory of Representation.- Hermann von Helmholtz and Ernst Mach on Musical Consonance.- The Bild Conception of Physical Theories from Helmholtz to Hertz.- Representation in Early Husserl.- Contents, Psycho-physical Products and Representations.- G.F. Stout's Philosophical Psychology.- Otto Selz and the Wrzburg School.- The Intrumental Model of Language in Karl Bhler.- The concept of Perceptual 'Field' and the Revolution in Cognition Caused by Khler's physische Gestalten.- Consciousness and Actuality in Whiteheadean Ontology.- Kurt Lewin and the Rise of the 'Cognitive Sciences' in Germany: Cassirer, Bhler, Reichenbach.- Children's Drawings as Sensible Probes into the Realm of Representations.

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