Początki psychologii eksperymentalnej na Uniwersytecie Lwowskim a problem nowoczesnego widzenia
The Beginnings of Experimental Psychology at Lviv University and the Problem of Modern Vision

Author(s): Sylwia Borowska-Kazimiruk
Subject(s): Cultural history, Studies of Literature, Polish Literature, Philology
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: vision modernizations; Kazimierz Twardowski; visual illusions; antipositivist turn; Warsaw-Lviv School
Summary/Abstract: The article is concerned with the history of Polish experimental psychology as seen from the perspective of Kazimierz Twardowski’s work at Lviv University. One of the most important events, which initiated the introduction of this new scientific research into universities, was a lecture On Visual Illusions (1898/99) given by the future founder of the Warsaw-Lviv School. As the author proves,the seminar, most innovative at the time, devoted to illusions in everyday, individual cognition, not only opens a new chapter in Polish philosophy after the positivist turn, but also commences a local version of the history of vision, concerning a complex process of reconceptualization of modern percipient subjectivity.

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