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Handbook of Phenomenology and Cognitive Science

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Editors:
  1. Daniel Schmicking

    1. FB Philosophie und Philologie, Universität Mainz, Mainz, Germany

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  2. Shaun Gallagher

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

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  • Offers an interdisciplinary perspective on the mind
  • An international set of authors contribute the most recent thought on an important set of problems for science and philosophy
  • Includes not only detailed analyses of the central topics in the philosophy and science of the mind, but also important explorations of psycho- and neuro-pathologies
  • Provides clearly written chapters on methodological issues that address the question of naturalizing phenomenology, and the approaches of neurophenomenology and “front-loaded” phenomenology

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Table of contents (32 chapters)

  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
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About this book

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).

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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)

Editors and Affiliations

  • 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

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Handbook of Phenomenology and Cognitive Science

  • Editors: Daniel Schmicking, Shaun Gallagher

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-2646-0

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Philosophy and Religion (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2010

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-90-481-2645-3Published: 18 December 2009

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-007-8647-9Published: 13 December 2014

  • eBook ISBN: 978-90-481-2646-0Published: 16 December 2009

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: IX, 688

  • Topics: Phenomenology, Philosophy of Mind, Neuropsychology, Psychiatry

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