Handbook of Phenomenology and Cognitive Science

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-ix

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2. Naturalized Phenomenology

   • Dan Zahavi

   Pages 2-19

3. Phenomenology and Non-reductionist Cognitive Science

   • Shaun Gallagher

   Pages 21-34

4. A Toolbox of Phenomenological Methods

   • Daniel Schmicking

   Pages 35-55

5. Towards a Formalism for Expressing Structures of Consciousness

   • Eduard Marbach

   Pages 57-81

6. Consciousness

   • Mark Rowlands

   Pages 84-97

7. Attention in Context

   • P. Sven Arvidson

   Pages 99-121

8. The Phenomenology and Neurobiology of Moods and Emotions

   • Matthew Ratcliffe

   Pages 123-140

9. Phenomenology, Imagination and Interdisciplinary Research

   • Julia Jansen

   Pages 141-158

10. The Function of Weak Phantasy in Perception and Thinking

    • Dieter Lohmar

    Pages 159-177

11. Myself with No Body? Body, Bodily-Consciousness and Self-consciousness

    • Dorothée Legrand

    Pages 180-200

12. A Husserlian, Neurophenomenologic Approach to Embodiment

    • Jean-Luc Petit

    Pages 201-216

13. Body and Movement: Basic Dynamic Principles

    • Maxine Sheets-Johnstone

    Pages 217-234

14. Empirical and Phenomenological Studies of Embodied Cognition

    • David Morris

    Pages 235-252

15. The Problem of Other Minds

    • Søren Overgaard

    Pages 254-268

16. Mutual Gaze and Intersubjectivity

    • Beata Stawarska

    Pages 269-282

17. Knowing Other People’s Mental States as if They Were One’s Own

    • Frédérique de Vignemont

    Pages 283-299

18. Intersubjectivity, Cognition, and Language

    • N. Praetorius

    Pages 301-316

19. The Problem of Representation

    • Michael Wheeler

    Pages 318-336

20. Action and Agency

    • Thor Grünbaum

    Pages 337-354

This volume explores the essential issues involved in bringing phenomenology together with the cognitive sciences, and provides some examples of research located at the intersection of these disciplines. The topics addressed here cover a lot of ground, including questions about naturalizing phenomenology, the precise methods of phenomenology and how they can be used in the empirical cognitive sciences, specific analyses of perception, attention, emotion, imagination, embodied movement, action and agency, representation and cognition, inters- jectivity, language and metaphor. In addition there are chapters that focus on empirical experiments involving psychophysics, perception, and neuro- and psychopathologies. The idea that phenomenology, understood as a philosophical approach taken by thinkers like Husserl, Heidegger, Sartre, Merleau-Ponty, and others, can offer a positive contribution to the cognitive sciences is a relatively recent idea. Prior to the 1990s, phenomenology was employed in a critique of the first wave of cognitivist and computational approaches to the mind (see Dreyfus 1972). What some consider a second wave in cognitive science, with emphasis on connectionism and neuros- ence, opened up possibilities for phenomenological intervention in a more positive way, resulting in proposals like neurophenomenology (Varela 1996). Thus, bra- imaging technologies can turn to phenomenological insights to guide experimen- tion (see, e. g. , Jack and Roepstorff 2003; Gallagher and Zahavi 2008).

• Action
• Aron Gurwitsch
• Cognitive science
• Edmund Husserl
• Embodiment
• Emotion
• Jean-Paul Sartre
• Martin Heidegger
• Maurice Merleau-Ponty
• Neurobiology
• Perception
• body
• language
• phenomenology

From the reviews:

“It is a much needed volume for examination of possible connections between phenomenology and cognitive science, the current vanguard of the dominant mainstream school of cognitive psychology. … There are different topics covered and there are different perspectives presented. … chapters have their respective merits and deserve consideration. Springer has provided to readers a broad coverage of the possible relationship between phenomenology and cognitive science.” (Thomas F. Cloonan, Journal of Phenomenological Psychology, Vol. 43 (2), 2012)

• FB Philosophie und Philologie, Universität Mainz, Mainz, Germany

  Daniel Schmicking

• Dept of Philosophy & Cognitive Sciences, University of Central Florida, Orlando, U.S.A.

  Shaun Gallagher

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