SOCIETY FOR GESTALT THEORY AND ITS APPLICATIONS
granted the
 | Wolfgang Metzger Award 2005 | |
Fredrik SUNDQVIST (Göteborg)
in recognition to his research publication
Perceptual Dynamics
Theoretical Foundations and Philosophical Implications of
Gestalt Psychology
The publication winning the Wolfgang Metzger Award 2005 is the doctoral dissertation of Dr. Sundqvist. It has been published as No. 16 of the series Acta Philosophica Gothoburgensia, Göteborg University (ISBN 91-7346-486-4). The award ceremony and the award winner's lecture took place at the 14th Scientific Convention of the GTA (February 24-27, 2005, Medical University Graz / Austria). The lecture will be published in one of the next issues of Gestalt Theory.
This award - presented by the international multidisciplinary Society
for Gestalt Theory and its Applications (GTA)- is named in honor of
our late honorary chairman Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Wolfgang
Metzger who was one of the most eminent exponents of the second generation
of the Berlin school of Gestalt theory.
To qualify for this award applicants had to submit a scientific paper (in German
or English language) which contributes to research or application on basis of
Gestalt theory in the natural sciences, the humanities, the social sciences,
or the economic sciences; e.g. the paper could deal with a subject from psychology,
medicine, architecture, or any other field of research or application based
on Gestalt theory.
Applicants were invited to submit either master theses or theses or papers written
specifically for this award.
 Wolfgang
METZGERs "Psychologie. Die Entwicklung ihrer Grundannahmen seit
der Einführung des Experiments" (first edition published
in 1941) has been published in its 6th edition recently by the
Wolfgang Krammer Verlag, Vienna, 2001. Order this new edition
by email or via
the website of the publishing house (407 pages; price: EUR 45,--). |
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