Introduction

This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book highlights the drawbacks of alternative perceptual theories. It discusses the paradoxes that are embedded in the alternative theoretical positions. The book aims to define what “under observation” is according to Paolo Bozzi. It also discusses the independence of the phenomenal world from the underlying mechanical processes, Bozzi adds a strong argument in support of his idea of an Experimental Phenomenology of Perception (EPhP) iuxta propria principia and at the same time provides a strong logical argument to avoid any type of physical reductionism or neuro-reductionism. The book provides an example of how Bozzi contributed to the development of Wertheimer’s laws of organisation in vision. It shows EPhP at work on observations that lie at the boundary of the genuinely phenomenal distinctions between what appears to be subjective and what appears to be objective.