Handbook of Phenomenology and Cognitive Sciences

by Gallagher, Shaun; Schmicking, Daniel

• ISBN13: 9789048126453
• ISBN10: 9048126452
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-02-03
• Publisher: Springer Verlag

Summary

The Handbook of Phenomenology and Cognitive Science contains a comprehensive and authoritative overview of the main ideas and methods currently used at the intersection of phenomenology and the neuro- and cognitive sciences. The idea that phenomenology, in the European continental tradition, has something to offer to the cognitive sciences is a relatively recent development in our attempt to understand the mind. Here in one volume the leading researchers in this area address the central topics that define the intersection between phenomenological studies and the cognitive sciences. They address questions about methodology, the analysis of perception, memory, imagination, attention, emotion, intersubjectivity, the role of the body and language, and they explore a variety of pathologies that throw light on our everyday experiences. The authors draw on the classical works of phenomenologists such as Husserl, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, Gurwitsch, and Sartre, but they also push the traditional lines of phenomenology to new boundaries, mapping out new terrain in connection with the empirical science of the mind and body. These essays are revelatory for both phenomenologists who want to understand what cognitive science can contribute to an understanding of experience, and for scientists who want to understand how they can use phenomenology in their empirical studies.

Table of Contents

Phenomenology and Experimental Cognitive Science
Naturalized Phenomenology	p. 3
Phenomenology and Non-reductionist Cognitive Science	p. 21
A Toolbox of Phenomenological Methods	p. 35
Towards a Formalism for Expressing Structures of Consciousness	p. 57
Consciousness, Attention, and Emotion
Consciousness	p. 85
Attention in Context	p. 99
The Phenomenology and Neurobiology of Moods and Emotions	p. 123
Phenomenology, Imagination and Interdisciplinary Research	p. 141
The Function of Weak Phantasy in Perception and Thinking	p. 159
Embodiment
Myself with No Body? Body, Bodily-Consciousness and Self-consciousness	p. 181
A Husserlian, Neurophenomenologic Approach to Embodiment	p. 201
Body and Movement: Basic Dynamic Principles	p. 217
Empirical and Phenomenological Studies of Embodied Cognition	p. 235
Intersubjectivity
The Problem of Other Minds	p. 255
Mutual Gaze and Intersubjectivity	p. 269
Knowing Other People's Mental States as if They Were One's Own	p. 283
Intersubjectivity, Cognition, and Language	p. 301
Perception, Action and Enactive Phenomenology
The Problem of Representation	p. 319
Action and Agency	p. 337
Meaning, World and the Second Person	p. 355
Language and Meaning
Husserl and Language	p. 369
Metaphor and Cognition	p. 401
Phenomenology and Cognitive Linguistics	p. 415
Applications and Experiments
The Role of Phenomenology in Psychophysics	p. 447
A Neurophenomenological Study of Epileptic Seizure Anticipation	p. 471
How Unconscious is Subliminal Perception?	p. 501
IW - "The Man Who Lost His Body"	p. 519
Pathologies
Phenomenology and Psychopathology	p. 547
Delusional Atmosphere and Delusional Belief	p. 575
Autoscopy: Disrupted Self in Neuropsychiatric Disorders and Anomalous Conscious States	p. 591
Phenomenology as Description and as Explanation: The Case of Schizophrenia	p. 635
Agency with Impairments of Movement	p. 655
Index	p. 671
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