HANDBOOK OF PHENOMENOLOGY AND COGNITIVE SCIENCE by Daniel Schmicking (Editor), Shaun Gallagher (Editor) ( 9789400786479 )

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Title:

HANDBOOK OF PHENOMENOLOGY AND COGNITIVE SCIENCE

By:

Daniel Schmicking (Editor), Shaun Gallagher (Editor)

Format:

Paperback

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ISBN 10:

9400786476

ISBN 13:

9789400786479

Publisher:

SPRINGER

Pub. date:

13 December, 2014

Edition:

2010 ed.

Pages:

688

Description:

The idea that phenomenology, in the European tradition, has something to offer the cognitive sciences is a recent development. Here, leading researchers address topics that lie at the intersection between phenomenological studies and the cognitive sciences.

Synopsis:

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).

Illustrations:

IX, 688 p.

Publication:

Netherlands

Imprint:

Springer

Returns:

Returnable

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