Handbook of Phenomenology and Cognitive Science

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).

List of contents

Naturalized Phenomenology.- Phenomenology and Non-reductionist Cognitive Science.- A Toolbox of Phenomenological Methods.- Towards a Formalism for Expressing Structures of Consciousness.- Consciousness.- Attention in Context.- The Phenomenology and Neurobiology of Moods and Emotions.- Phenomenology, Imagination and Interdisciplinary Research.- The Function of Weak Phantasy in Perception and Thinking.- Myself with No Body? Body, Bodily-Consciousness and Self-consciousness.- A Husserlian, Neurophenomenologic Approach to Embodiment.- Body and Movement: Basic Dynamic Principles.- Empirical and Phenomenological Studies of Embodied Cognition.- The Problem of Other Minds.- Mutual Gaze and Intersubjectivity.- Knowing Other People's Mental States as if They Were One's Own.- Intersubjectivity, Cognition, and Language.- The Problem of Representation.- Action and Agency.- Meaning, World and the Second Person.- Husserl and Language.- Metaphor and Cognition.- Phenomenology and Cognitive Linguistics.- The Role of Phenomenology in Psychophysics.- A Neurophenomenological Study of Epileptic Seizure Anticipation.- How Unconscious is Subliminal Perception?.- IW - "The Man Who Lost His Body".- Phenomenology and Psychopathology.- Delusional Atmosphere and Delusional Belief.- Autoscopy: Disrupted Self in Neuropsychiatric Disorders and Anomalous Conscious States.- Phenomenology as Description and as Explanation: The Case of Schizophrenia.- Agency with Impairments of Movement.

About the author

Daniel Schmicking ist seit 2002 Lehrbeauftragter mit dem Schwerpunkt "Theoretische Philosophie der Neuzeit und der Gegenwart" am Philosophischen Seminar der Universität Mainz. Seit 2008 ist er Gastprofessor an der University of Central Florida.

Shaun Gallagher is Professor of Philosophy and Cognitive Sciences, and Senior Researcher at the Institute of Simulation and Training, at the University of Central Florida (USA); he has secondary research appointments at the University of Hertfordshire and the University of Copenhagen. He has been Visiting Scientist at the Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge, and Visiting Professor at the University of Copenhagen, the Centre de Recherche en Epistémelogie Appliquée (CREA), Paris, and the Ecole Normale Supériure, Lyon.

Summary

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)

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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)

Product details

• Assisted by: Gallagher (Editor), Gallagher (Editor), Shaun Gallagher (Editor), Danie Schmicking (Editor), Daniel Schmicking (Editor)
• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2014
• EAN: 9789400786479
• ISBN: 978-94-0-078647-9
• No. of pages: 688
• Dimensions: 193 mm x 36 mm x 260 mm
• Weight: 1455 g
• Illustrations: IX, 688 p.
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day; B, Phenomenology, Philosophy of Mind, Psychiatry, Physiological & neuro-psychology, biopsychology, neuropsychology, Religion and Philosophy