Phenomenology

by Gallagher, Shaun

• ISBN13: 9780230272491
• ISBN10: 0230272495
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-10-02
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

This new introduction by Shaun Gallagher gives students and philosophers not only an excellent concise overview of the state of the field and contemporary debates, but a novel way of addressing the subject by looking at the ways in which phenomenology is useful to the disciplines it applies to. Gallagher retrieves the central insights made by the classic phenomenological philosophers (Husserl, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, Sartre, and others), updates some of these insights in innovative ways, and shows how they directly relate to ongoing debates in philosophy and psychology. Accounts of phenomenological methods, and the concepts of intentionality, temporality, embodiment, action, self, and our ability to understand other people are integrated into a coherent contemporary statement that shows why phenomenology is still an active and vital philosophical approach. Each chapter begins with a discussion of the classic analyses and then goes on to show their relevance to contemporary debates in philosophy about embodied, enactive and extended approaches to our understanding of human experience. Along the way Gallagher introduces some novel interpretations that suggest how phenomenology can both inform and be informed by the terms of these debates.

Author Biography

Shaun Gallagher is the Lillian and Morrie Moss Professor of Excellence in philosophy at the University of Memphis, USA. He has a secondary appointment at the University of Hertfordshire, UK, and is Honorary Professor of Philosophy at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

Table of Contents

Series Editor's Preface	p. x
Acknowledgments	p. xii
Introduction: The Situation of Phenomenology	p. 1
What Is Phenomenology?	p. 7
Phenomenologies	p. 7
Historical background and foreground	p. 10
Death and reincarnation	p. 13
A different phenomenology	p. 16
Further reading	p. 17
Naturalism, Transcendentalism and a New Naturalizing	p. 19
Mathematics and psychology	p. 19
Naturalistic and transcendental accounts	p. 22
The new naturalism	p. 28
Some natural ways of using phenomenology	p. 33
Formalizing phenomenology	p. 33
Neurophenomenology	p. 36
Front-loaded phenomenology	p. 37
Further reading	p. 40
Phenomenological Methods and Some Retooling	p. 41
The natural attitude	p. 41
The epoché	p. 43
The phenomenological reduction	p. 47
Retooling the eidetic reduction	p. 49
Some questions about the first person perspective and language	p. 56
Further reading	p. 60
Intentionalities	p. 62
Husserl's theory of intentionality	p. 63
Noesis-noema	p. 67
Enactive intentionality	p. 72
Further reading	p. 80
Embodiment and the Hyletic Dimension	p. 82
Hyle: a sensational concept	p. 82
The critique of Husserl's theory	p. 86
Hyle and quale	p. 89
Embodiment and hyletic experience	p. 93
Deepening the enactive interpretation	p. 96
Further reading	p. 99
Time and Time Again	p. 100
Experiencing time	p. 100
Husserl's analysis	p. 103
The ubiquity of temporality	p. 107
One more time: primal impression and enactive structure	p. 114
Further reading	p. 121
Self and First-Person Perspective	p. 122
A tradition of disagreements	p. 122
Pre-reflective and minimal aspects of self	p. 127
The sense of ownership	p. 131
Schizophrenia	p. 136
Somatoparaphrenia	p. 140
Rubber hand illusion and whole body displacement	p. 143
The NASA robot experience	p. 146
First-person perspective	p. 148
Further reading	p. 157
Lifeworld, Action, Narrative	p. 159
The lifeworld	p. 159
Turning the tables	p. 164
Action and agency	p. 168
The narrative scale	p. 172
Further reading	p. 181
Intersubjectivity and Second-Person Perspective	p. 182
Transcendental intersubjectivity	p. 182
Being-with others	p. 187
Standard views of social cognition	p. 191
Phenomenologial approaches to social cognition	p. 193
Developmental studies	p. 195
Behavioral and phenomenological evidence	p. 198
Evidence from dynamic systems modeling	p. 200
The narrative scale in social cognition	p. 201
Revisiting transcendental intersubjectivity	p. 202
Further reading	p. 204
Notes	p. 205
References	p. 212
Index	p. 233
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