ABSTRACT
This chapter presents several autobiographical pictures of the practices that Paolo Bozzi absorbed during his apprenticeship in G. Kanizsa’s laboratory and that he transformed into the building bricks of his own epistemological perspective. The connections that Bozzi points out also elsewhere among perception and imagination, reasoning, and language offer resources for a fruitful dialogue between Experimental Phenomenology and the debates that have since grown up regarding the grounding of cognition in perception and action. Which of the points in the suggested manifesto can be accepted by all cognitive scientists who claim to be developing an experimental phenomenological approach to the study of perception, and which not, helps to pinpoint their distinctive features. The essence of Bozzi’s idea of the Experimental Phenomenology of perception as approach iuxta propria principia.
