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179One of Michel Henry’s persistent claims has been that phenomenology is quite unlike positive sciences such as physics, chemistry, biology, history, and law. Rather than studying particular objects and phenomena phenomenology is a transcendental enterprise whose task is to disclose and analyse the structure of manifestation or appearance and its very condition of possibility.
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145The Phenomenological MindRoutledge. 2008._The Phenomenological Mind_ is the first book to properly introduce fundamental questions about the mind from the perspective of phenomenology. Key questions and topics covered include: • what is phenomenology? • naturalizing phenomenology and the cognitive sciences • phenomenology and consciousness • consciousness and self-consciousness • time and consciousness • intentionality • the embodied mind • action • knowledge of other minds • situated and extended minds • phenomenology and personal ide…Read more
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80Phenomenology of selfIn Tilo Kircher & Anthony S. David (eds.), The Self in Neuroscience and Psychiatry, Cambridge University Press. pp. 56--75. 2003.
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337Empathy and Other-Directed IntentionalityTopoi 33 (1): 129-142. 2014.The article explores and compares the accounts of empathy found in Lipps, Scheler, Stein and Husserl and argues that the three latter phenomenological thinkers offer a model of empathy, which is not only distinctly different from Lipps’, but which also diverge from the currently dominant models
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39The Oxford handbook of contemporary phenomenology (edited book)Oxford University Press. 2012.The Oxford Handbook of Contemporary Phenomenology presents twenty-eight essays by some of the leading figures in the field, and gives an authoritative overview of the type of work and range of topics found and discussed in contemporary phenomenology. It is the definitive guide to what is currently going on in phenomenology, and offers a rich source of insight and stimulation for philosophers, students of philosophy, and for people working in other disciplines of the humanities, social sciences, …Read more
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15Intentionalität und erfahrungSynthesis Philosophica 20 (2): 299-318. 2005.Seit der Veröffentlichung von Chalmers einflussreichem Werk The Conscious Mind war es üblich, die philosophischen Probleme des Bewusstseins in zwei Gruppen zu teilen. Während sich das sogenannte „schwere Problem des Bewusstseins“ auf die Natur des phänomenalen Bewusstseins und die Perspektive der ersten Person bezieht, befasst sich das „leichte Problem des Bewusstseins“ vor allem mit dem Begriff der Intentionalität. Doch es stellt sich die Frage, ob es tatsächlich möglich ist, Intentionalität ei…Read more
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499Phenomenology and the project of naturalizationPhenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences 3 (4): 331-47. 2004.In recent years, more and more people have started talking about the necessity of reconciling phenomenology with the project of naturalization. Is it possible to bridge the gap between phenomenological analyses and naturalistic models of consciousness? Is it possible to naturalize phenomenology? Given the transcendental philosophically motivated anti-naturalism found in many phenomenologists such a naturalization proposal might seem doomed from the very start, but in this paper I will examine an…Read more
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269Back to Brentano?Journal of Consciousness Studies 11 (10-11): 66-87. 2004.For a cou ple of decades, higher-order the o ries of con scious ness have enjoyed great pop u lar ity, but they have recently been met with grow ing dis sat is - fac tion. Many have started to look else where for via ble alter na tives, and within the last few years, quite a few have redis cov ered Brentano. In this paper such a Brentanian one-level account of con scious ness will be out lined and dis - cussed. It will be argued that it can con trib ute impor tant insights to our under - stand i…Read more
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359Thompson, Evan. Mind in life: Biology, phenomenology, and the sciences of mind (review)Husserl Studies 25 (2): 159-168. 2007.Thompson, Evan. Mind in Life: Biology, Phenomenology, and the Sciences of Mind Content Type Journal Article DOI 10.1007/s10743-009-9057-7 Authors Dan Zahavi, University of Copenhagen Center for Subjectivity Research Njalsgade 140-142 2300 Copenhagen Denmark Journal Husserl Studies Online ISSN 1572-8501 Print ISSN 0167-9848 Journal Volume Volume 25 Journal Issue Volume 25, Number 2
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8Intencionalnost i iskustvoFilozofska Istrazivanja 26 (2): 319-337. 2006.Od objavljivanja Chalmersova utjecajnog rada The Conscious Mind , bilo je uobičajeno dijeliti filozofijske probleme svijesti na dvije grupe. Dok se tzv. »teški problem svijesti« tiče prirode fenomenalne svijesti i perspektive prve-osobe, »laki problem svijesti« uglavnom se bavi pojmom intencionalnosti. No je li stvarno moguće potpuno istraživati intencionalnost bez uzimanja u obzir iskustvene dimenzije? I vice versa, je li moguće razumjeti prirodu subjektivnosti i iskustva ako ignoriramo intenci…Read more
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27A Question of Method: Reflective vs. Hermeneutical PhenomenologyThe Proceedings of the Twenty-First World Congress of Philosophy 12 111-118. 2007.In his Allgemeine Psychologie of 1912, Natorp formulates a by now classical criticism of phenomenology. 1. Phenomenology claims to describe and analyze lived subjectivity itself. In order to do so it employs a reflective methodology. But reflection is a kind of internal perception; it is a theoretical attitude; it involves an objectification. And as Natorp then asks, how is this objectifying procedure ever going to provide us with access to lived subjectivity itself? 2. Phenomenology aims at des…Read more
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82Steven Galt Crowell: 'Husserl, Heidegger, and the space of meaning: Paths toward transcendental phenomenology' (review)Continental Philosophy Review 36 (3): 325-334. 2003.
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672Intentionality and ExperienceSynthesis Philosophica 20 (2): 299-318. 2005.Since the publication of Chalmer’s influential work, The Conscious Mind, it has been customary to divide the philosophical problems of consciousness into two groups. Whereas the so-called ‘hard problem’ of consciousness concerns the nature of phenomenal awareness and the first-person perspective, the ‘easy problems of consciousness’ mainly concern the notion of intentionality. But is it really possible to investigate intentionality thoroughly without taking the experiential dimension into accoun…Read more
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260Philosophical Issues: PhenomenologyIn Morris Moscovitch, Philip Zelazo & Evan Thompson (eds.), Cambridge Handbook of Consciousness, Cambridge University Press. pp. 67-87. 2007.Current scientific research on consciousness aims to understand how consciousness arises from the workings of the brain and body, as well as the relations between conscious experience and cognitive processing. Clearly, to make progress in these areas, researchers cannot avoid a range of conceptual issues about the nature and structure of consciousness, such as the following: What is the relation between intentionality and consciousness? What is the relation between self-awareness and consciousne…Read more
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300Subjectivity and Selfhood: Investigating the First-Person PerspectiveBradford Book/MIT Press. 2005.The relationship of self, and self-awareness, and experience: exploring classical phenomenological analyses and their relevance to contemporary discussions in ...
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247Horizontal intentionality and transcendental intersubjectivityTijdschrift Voor Filosofie 59 (2): 304-321. 1997.Through an investigation of Husserl's concept of horizontal intentionality, the article basically argues that the horizon is intrinsically intersubjective, and that it entails an implicit reference to the intentions of possible Others. Against this background it is argued that our perceptual experience of an embodied Other, our factual encounter with the Other, is not the most basic and fundamental type of intersubjectivity. On the contrary, it presupposes a type of intersubjectivity which belon…Read more
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276Phenomenal consciousness and self-awareness: A phenomenological critique of representational theoryJournal of Consciousness Studies 5 (5-6): 687-705. 1998.Given the recent interest in the subjective or phenomenal dimension of consciousness it is no wonder that many authors have once more started to speak of the need for pheno- menological considerations. Often however the term ‘phenomenology’ is being used simply as a synonym for ‘folk psychology', and in our article we argue that it would be far more fruitful to turn to the argumentation to be found within the continental tradition inaugurated by Husserl. In order to exemplify this claim, we crit…Read more
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230Self-awareness and alterity: a phenomenological investigationNorthwestern University Press. 1999.... Let me start my investigation by taking a brief look at the way in which self-awareness is expressed linguistically, as in the sentences "I am tired" or ...
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107Empathy≠sharing: Perspectives from phenomenology and developmental psychologyConsciousness and Cognition 36 543-553. 2015.
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6The Self-pluralisation of the primal life. A problem in Fink's Husserl-interpretationRecherches Husserliennes 2 3-18. 1994.
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158Life, thinking and phenomenology in the early BergsonIn Michael R. Kelly (ed.), Bergson and phenomenology, Palgrave-macmillan. pp. 118--133. 2010.How should we appraise Bergson’s relation to phenomenology? There are different ways to tackle this question. In the following my focus will be quite narrow. I will restrict myself to a close reading of Bergson’s doctoral dissertation Essai sur les données immédiates de la conscience. The question I wish to ask is basically whether the analysis of consciousness that Bergson provides in the second chapter of the dissertation is phenomenologically convincing.
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45First-personal self-reference and the self-as-subject☆Consciousness and Cognition 16 (3): 600-603. 2007.
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214Perception of duration presupposes duration of perception - or does it? Husserl and Dainton on timeInternational Journal of Philosophical Studies 15 (3): 453-471. 2007.In his recent book The Stream of Consciousness, Dainton provides what must surely count as one of the most comprehensive discussions of time-consciousness in analytical philosophy. In the course of doing so, he also challenges Husserl's classical account in a number of ways. In the following contribution, I will compare Dainton's and Husserl's respective accounts. Such a comparison will not only make it evident why an analysis of time-consciousness is so important, but will also provide a neat o…Read more
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156The fracture in self-awarenessIn Self-Awareness, Temporality, and Alterity, Kluwer Academic Publishers. pp. 21--40. 1998.
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531Inner time-consciousness and pre-reflective self-awarenessIn Donn Welton (ed.), The New Husserl: A Critical Reader, Indiana University Press. pp. 157-180. 2003.If one looks at the current discussion of self-awareness there seems to be a general agreement that whatever valuable philosophical contributions Husserl might have made, his account of self-awareness is not among them. This prevalent appraisal is often based on the claim that Husserl was too occupied with the problem of intentionality to ever really pay attention to the issue of self-awareness. Due to his interest in intentionality Husserl took object-consciousness as the paradigm of every kind…Read more
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