Monday, 29 September 2025

Lecture 13: Gestaltism I: Atomism, Anatomism, and Mechanical Order (Turvey, 2019, Lectures on Perception)

We are nearing the end of the Foundational Concepts section of the book, and we have arrived at one final historical attempts to explain perception; the Gestalt school. This chapter doesn't actually spend any time on Gestalt, however, but instead lays out the things Gestalt was developed to oppose. Those things are atomism, anatomism, and mechanical order.