Paolo Bozzi
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Paolo Bozzi, Italian psychologist and philosopher, composer and violin player, was born in Gorizia
on May 16, 1930 and died in Bolzano in 2003.
He made a number of important discoveries in psychology of perception
and thought, most notably the phenomenon of auditory streaming. He was one of the first to defend the idea of a systematic study of naïve physics
, and a precursor of experimental philosophy
.
Gorizia
Gorizia is a town and comune in northeastern Italy, in the autonomous region of Friuli Venezia Giulia. It is located at the foot of the Julian Alps, bordering Slovenia. It is the capital of the Province of Gorizia, and it is a local center of tourism, industry, and commerce. Since 1947, a twin...
on May 16, 1930 and died in Bolzano in 2003.
He made a number of important discoveries in psychology of perception
Perceptual psychology
Perceptual psychology is a subfield of cognitive psychology that is concerned specifically with the pre-conscious innate aspects of the human cognitive system: perception....
and thought, most notably the phenomenon of auditory streaming. He was one of the first to defend the idea of a systematic study of naïve physics
Naïve physics
Naïve physics or folk physics is the untrained human perception of basic physical phenomena. In the field of artificial intelligence the study of naïve physics is a part of the effort to formalize the common knowledge of human beings....
, and a precursor of experimental philosophy
Experimental philosophy
Experimental philosophy is an emerging field of philosophical inquiry that makes use of empirical data—often gathered through surveys which probe the intuitions of ordinary people—in order to inform research on philosophical questions This use of empirical data is widely seen as opposed to a...
.
External links
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