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685James on Experience and the Extended MindContemporary Pragmatism 3 (1): 165-176. 2006.William James’s characterization of consciousness as a selecting agency can be used to develop and defend an externalist view of mind. The mind – including the content of phenomenal consciousness – is in an important sense distributed beyond the skin and skull of the subject, out into the world of people and things. Moreover, conscious experience is an action, and not simply something that happens to us. Consciousness, perception, and experience are activities – in other words, things that we do…Read more
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262ConsciousnessIn John Lachs & Robert Talisse (eds.), Encyclopedia of American Philosophy, Routledge. 2007.
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650The affective 'we': Self-regulation and shared emotionsIn Thomas Szanto & Dermot Moran (eds.), Phenomenology of Sociality: Discovering the ‘We’, Routledge. pp. 263-277. 2015.What does it mean to say that an emotion can be shared? I consider this question, focusing on the relation between the phenomenology of emotion experience and self-regulation. I explore the idea that a numerically single emotion can be given to more than one subject. I term this a “collective emotion”. First, I consider different forms of emotion regulation. I distinguish between embodied forms of self-regulation, which use subject-centered features of our embodiment, and distributed forms of se…Read more
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819IntentionalityIn Giovanni Stanghellini, Matthew Broome, Anthony Vincent Fernandez, Paolo Fusar-Poli, Andrea Raballo & René Rosfort (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Phenomenological Psychopathology, Oxford University Press. 2018.
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138Varieties of extended emotionsPhenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences 13 (4): 533-555. 2014.I offer a preliminary defense of the hypothesis of extended emotions (HEE). After discussing some taxonomic considerations, I specify two ways of parsing HEE: the hypothesis of bodily extended emotions (HEBE), and the hypothesis of environmentally extended emotions (HEEE). I argue that, while both HEBE and HEEE are empirically plausible, only HEEE covers instances of genuinely extended emotions. After introducing some further distinctions, I support one form of HEEE by appealing to different str…Read more
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672Embodiment and affectivity in Moebius Syndrome and Schizophrenia: A phenomenological analysisIn J. Aaron Simmons & James Hackett (eds.), Phenomenology for the 21st Century, Palgrave-macmillan. forthcoming.In this comparative study, we examine experiential disruptions of embodiment and affectivity in Moebius Syndrome and schizophrenia. We suggest that using phenomenological resources to explore these experiences may help us better understand what it’s like to live with these conditions, and that such an understanding may have significant therapeutic value. Additionally, we suggest that this sort of phenomenologically-informed comparative analysis can shed light on the importance of embodiment and …Read more
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471Nishida, agency, and the 'self-contradictory' bodyAsian Philosophy 18 (3). 2008.In this essay, I investigate Kitarō Nishida's characterization of what he refers to as the 'self-contradictory' body. First, I clarify the conceptual relation between the self-contradictory body and Nishida's notion of 'acting-intuition'. I next look at Nishida's analysis of acting-intuition and the self-contradictory body as it pertains to our personal, sensorimotor engagement with the world and things in it, as well as to our bodily immersion within the intersubjective and social world. Along …Read more
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312The First Person Perspective and Beyond: Commentary on AlmaasJournal of Consciousness Studies 23 (1-2): 158-178. 2016.In this commentary, we engage with Almaas’s contribution from the perspective of phenomenology and its idea of a ‘minimal self’. We attempt to clarify Almaas’s claims about ‘phenomenological givens’ and ‘non-dual’, ‘pure consciousness’, and then show how they might be reconciled with phenomenological approaches to consciousness and self. We conclude by briefly indicating some of the ways a comparative analysis of this sort is mutually beneficial.
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2549Extended cognition and the space of social interactionConsciousness and Cognition 20 (3): 643-657. 2011.The extended mind thesis (EM) asserts that some cognitive processes are (partially) composed of actions consisting of the manipulation and exploitation of environmental structures. Might some processes at the root of social cognition have a similarly extended structure? In this paper, I argue that social cognition is fundamentally an interactive form of space management—the negotiation and management of ‘‘we-space”—and that some of the expressive actions involved in the negotiation and managemen…Read more
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525Stop, look, listen: The need for philosophical phenomenological perspectives on auditory verbal hallucinationsFrontiers in Human Neuroscience 7 1-9. 2013.One of the leading cognitive models of auditory verbal hallucinations (AVHs) proposes such experiences result from a disturbance in the process by which inner speech is attributed to the self. Research in this area has, however, proceeded in the absence of thorough cognitive and phenomenological investigations of the nature of inner speech, against which AVHs are implicitly or explicitly defined. In this paper we begin by introducing philosophical phenomenology and highlighting its relevance to …Read more
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308Control and Flexibility of Interactive Alignment: Mobius Syndrome as a Case StudyCognitive Processing 15 (1). 2014.
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591Musical Manipulations and the Emotionally Extended MindEmpirical Musicology Review 9 (3-4): 208-212. 2014.I respond to Kersten’s criticism in his article “Music and Cognitive Extension” of my approach to the musically extended emotional mind in Krueger (2014). I specify how we manipulate—and in so doing, integrate with—music when, as active listeners, we become part of a musically extended cognitive system. I also indicate how Kersten’s account might be enriched by paying closer attention to the way that music functions as an environmental artifact for emotion regulation.
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Ethical education as bodily training: Kitaro Nishida’s moral phenomenology of “acting-intuition.”In Roger T. Ames & Peter D. Hershock (eds.), Educations and their Purposes: A Conversation Among Cultures, Hawaii University Press. pp. 325-334. 2008.
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328The Phenomenology of Person PerceptionIn Mark Bruhn & Donald Wehrs (eds.), Neuroscience, Literature, and History, Routledge. pp. 153-173. 2014.
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841Dewey's Rejection of the Emotion/Expression DistinctionIn Tibor Solymosi & John Shook (eds.), Neuroscience, Neurophilosophy and Pragmatism: Understanding Brains at Work in the World, Palgrave-macmillan. pp. 140-161. 2014.
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741Knowing through the body: The Daodejing and DeweyJournal of Chinese Philosophy 36 (1): 31-52. 2009.No Abstract
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1288Doing things with musicPhenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences 10 (1): 1-22. 2011.This paper is an exploration of how we do things with music—that is, the way that we use music as an esthetic technology to enact micro-practices of emotion regulation, communicative expression, identity construction, and interpersonal coordination that drive core aspects of our emotional and social existence. The main thesis is: from birth, music is directly perceived as an affordance-laden structure. Music, I argue, affords a sonic world, an exploratory space or nested acoustic environment tha…Read more
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984Extended Mind and Religious CognitionReligion: Mental Religion. Part of the Macmillan Interdisciplinary Handbooks: Religion Series. 2016.The extended mind thesis claims that mental states need not be confined to the brain or even the biological borders of the subject. Philosophers and cognitive scientists have in recent years debated the plausibility of this thesis, growing an immense body of literature. Yet despite its many supporters, there have been relatively few attempts to apply the thesis to religious studies, particularly studies of religious cognition. In this essay, I indicate how various dimensions of religious cogniti…Read more
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232James on Pure ExperienceIn David Howell Evans (ed.), Understanding James, Understanding Modernism, Bloomsbury. 2017.
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900Watsuji's Phenomenology of Embodiment and Social SpacePhilosophy East and West 63 (2): 127-152. 2013.The aim of this essay is to situate the thought of Tetsurō Watsuji within contemporary approaches to social cognition. I argue for Watsuji’s current relevance, suggesting that his analysis of embodiment and social space puts him in step with some of the concerns driving ongoing treatments of social cognition in philosophy of mind and cognitive science. Yet, as I will show, Watsuji can potentially offer a fruitful contribution to this discussion by lending a phenomenologically informed critical p…Read more
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587Emotions and the Social NicheIn Christian von Scheve & Mikko Salmela (eds.), Collective Emotions, Oxford University Press. pp. 156-171. 2014.
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761Radical Enactivism and Inter-Corporeal AffectivityIn Thomas Fuchs, Heribert Sattel & Peter Heningnsen (eds.), The Embodied Self: Dimensions, Coherence, and Disorders, Schattauer. 2010.
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685Affordances and the musically extended mindFrontiers in Psychology 4 1-12. 2013.I defend a model of the musically extended mind. I consider how acts of “musicking” grant access to novel emotional experiences otherwise inaccessible. First, I discuss the idea of “musical affordances” and specify both what musical affordances are and how they invite different forms of entrainment. Next, I argue that musical affordances – via soliciting different forms of entrainment – enhance the functionality of various endogenous, emotiongranting regulative processes, drawing novel experienc…Read more
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724Empathy, enaction, and shared musical experienceIn Tom Cochrane, Bernardino Fantini & Klaus Scherer (eds.), The Emotional Power of Music: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Musical Expression, Arousal and Social Control, Oxford University Press. pp. 177-196. 2013.
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501Phenomenology of the social self in the prodrome of psychosis: From perceived negative attitude of others to heightened interpersonal sensitivityEuropean Psychiatry 26 (8): 532-533. 2011.
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290Training in compensatory strategies enhances rapport in interactions involving people with Möebius SyndromeFrontiers in Neurology 6 (213): 1-11. 2015.In the exploratory study reported here, we tested the efficacy of an intervention designed to train teenagers with Möbius syndrome (MS) to increase the use of alternative communication strategies (e.g., gestures) to compensate for their lack of facial expressivity. Specifically, we expected the intervention to increase the level of rapport experienced in social interactions by our participants. In addition, we aimed to identify the mechanisms responsible for any such increase in rapport. In the …Read more
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867Ontogenesis of the socially extended mindCognitive Systems Research 25 40-46. 2013.I consider the developmental origins of the socially extended mind. First, I argue that, from birth, the physical interventions caregivers use to regulate infant attention and emotion (gestures, facial expressions, direction of gaze, body orientation, patterns of touch and vocalization, etc.) are part of the infant’s socially extended mind; they are external mechanisms that enable the infant to do things she could not otherwise do, cognitively speaking. Second, I argue that these physical interv…Read more
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1389Enacting Musical ContentIn Riccardo Manzotti (ed.), Situated Aesthetics: Art Beyond the Skin, Imprint Academic. pp. 63-85. 2011.This chapter offers the beginning of an enactive account of auditory experience—particularly the experience of listening sensitively to music. It investigates how sensorimotor regularities grant perceptual access to music qua music. Two specific claims are defended: (1) music manifests experientially as having complex spatial content; (2) sensorimotor regularities constrain this content. Musical content is thus brought to phenomenal presence by bodily exploring structural features of music. We e…Read more
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1110Direct Social PerceptionIn Albert Newen, Leon De Bruin & Shaun Gallagher (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of 4E Cognition, Oxford University Press. 2018.
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Japanese Philosophy |
William James |
John Dewey |
Asian Philosophy |
American Pragmatism, Misc |
Musical Experience |