Phenomenology and Science

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xvi

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2. ‘At Arm’s Length’: The Interaction Between Phenomenology and Gestalt Psychology

   • Aaron Harrison

   Pages 1-21

3. “Intrinsic Time” and the Minimal Self: Reflections on the Methodological and Metaphysical Significance of Temporal Experience

   • Jack Reynolds

   Pages 23-44

4. Phenomenology and the Scientific Image: Defending Naturalism from Its Critics

   • Richard Sebold

   Pages 45-68

5. Enacting Productive Dialogue: Addressing the Challenge that Non-Human Cognition Poses to Collaborations Between Enactivism and Heideggerian Phenomenology

   • Marilyn Stendera

   Pages 69-85

6. The Rest is Science: What Does Phenomenology Tell Us About Cognition?

   • Michael Wheeler

   Pages 87-101

7. Affect as Transcendental Condition of Activity Versus Passivity, and of Natural Science

   • David Morris

   Pages 103-119

8. Losing Social Space: Phenomenological Disruptions of Spatiality and Embodiment in Moebius Syndrome and Schizophrenia

   • Joel Krueger, Amanda Taylor Aiken

   Pages 121-139

9. Phenomenology of Language in a 4e World

   • Andrew Inkpin

   Pages 141-159

10. Intercorporeity: Enaction, Simulation, and the Science of Social Cognition

    • Shaun Gallagher

    Pages 161-179

11. Multiperspectival Imagery: Sartre and Cognitive Theory on Point of View in Remembering and Imagining

    • Christopher Jude McCarroll, John Sutton

    Pages 181-204

12. Imaginative Dimensions of Reality: Pretense, Knowledge, and Sociality

    • Michela Summa

    Pages 205-224

13. Back Matter

    Pages 225-229

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 This book investigates the complex, sometimes fraught relationship between phenomenology and the natural sciences. The contributors attempt to subvert and complicate the divide that has historically tended to characterize the relationship between the two fields. Phenomenology has traditionally been understood as methodologically distinct from scientific practice, and thus removed from any claim that philosophy is strictly continuous with science. There is some substance to this thinking, which has dominated consideration of the relationship between phenomenology and science throughout the twentieth century. However, there are also emerging trends within both phenomenology and empirical science that complicate this too stark opposition, and call for more systematic consideration of the inter-relation between the two fields. These essays explore such issues, either by directly examining meta-philosophical and methodological matters, or by looking at particular topics that seem to require the resources of each, including imagination, cognition, temporality, affect, imagery, language, and perception. 

• Phenomenology
• Science
• Cognition
• Metaphilosophy
• philosophical methodology
• naturalism

• Dept. Philosophy, Deakin University, Australia

  Jack Reynolds

• Ormond College, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Australia

  Richard Sebold

Jack Reynolds is Professor of Philosophy and Associate Head (Research) of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at Deakin University, Australia. He has written four books: Chronopathologies: The Politics of Time in Deleuze, Derrida, Analytic Philosophy and Phenomenology (2012); Analytic Versus Continental: Arguments on the Methods and Value of Philosophy (2010, with James Chase); Merleau-Ponty and Derrida: Intertwining Embodiment and Alterity (2004); and Understanding Existentialism (2006).




Richard Sebold received his PhD in philosophy from La Trobe University, Australia, in 2013, where he was a lecturer until 2015. He is now Head of Ethics and Global Challenges at Ormond College at the University of Melbourne, Australia. His thesis was published as a book in 2014, titled Continental Anti-Realism: A Critique. 

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