Handbook of Phenomenology and Cognitive Science
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, i
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Handbook of Phenomenology and Cognitive Science
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Handbook of Phenomenology and Cognitive Science
Shaun Gallagher Daniel Schmicking ●
Editors
Handbook of Phenomenology and Cognitive Science
Editors Shaun Gallagher University of Central Florida Orlando FL USA [email protected]
Daniel Schmicking Johannes-Gutenberg-Universität Mainz Mainz, Germany [email protected]
ISBN 978-90-481-2645-3 e-ISBN 978-90-481-2646-0 DOI 10.1007/978-90-481-2646-0 Springer Dordrecht New York Heidelberg London Library of Congress Control Number: 2009942087 © Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2010 No part of this work may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, microfilming, recording or otherwise, without written permission from the Publisher, with the exception of any material supplied specifically for the purpose of being entered and executed on a computer system, for exclusive use by the purchaser of the work. Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)
Preface
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, intersubjectivity, 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 neuroscience, opened up possibilities for phenomenological intervention in a more positive way, resulting in proposals like neurophenomenology (Varela 1996). Thus, brainimaging technologies can turn to phenomenological insights to guide experimentation (see, e.g., Jack and Roepstorff 2003; Gallagher and Zahavi 2008). But even more important, phenomenology has played a significant role in initiating a third wave that considers the cognitive system to include not just the brain, but the body as a whole, situated in physical and social environments. This involves a shift that now emphasizes embodied cognition, enactive perception, and dynamical systems, and integrates the work of phenomenologists (see Gallagher and Varela 2003; Varel
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