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544James Austin's Selfless Insight: Zen and the Meditative Transformations of Consciousness (review)Journal of Consciousness Studies 17 (9-10): 240-244. 2010.
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240Phenomenology and the visibility of the mentalAnnual Review of the Phenomenological Association of Japan 29 13-25. 2013.
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448Interdisciplinary approaches to the phenomenology of auditory verbal hallucinationsSchizophrenia Bulletin 40. 2014.Despite the recent proliferation of scientific, clinical, and narrative accounts of auditory verbal hallucinations, the phenomenology of voice hearing remains opaque and undertheorized. In this article, we outline an interdisciplinary approach to understanding hallucinatory experiences which seeks to demonstrate the value of the humanities and social sciences to advancing knowledge in clinical research and practice. We argue that an interdisciplinary approach to the phenomenology of AVH utilizes…Read more
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462Gestural coupling and social cognition: Moebius Syndrome as a case studyFrontiers in Human Neuroscience 6. 2012.Social cognition researchers have become increasingly interested in the ways that behavioral, physiological, and neural coupling facilitate social interaction and interpersonal understanding. We distinguish two ways of conceptualizing the role of such coupling processes in social cognition: strong and moderate interactionism. According to strong interactionism (SI), low-level coupling processes are alternatives to higher-level individual cognitive processes; the former at least sometimes render …Read more
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1205The Who and the How of ExperienceIn Mark Siderits, Evan Thompson & Dan Zahavi (eds.), Self, no self?: perspectives from analytical, phenomenological, and Indian traditions, Oxford University Press. pp. 27-55. 2011.
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340EmpathyIn Byron Kaldis (ed.), Encyclopedia of Philosophy and the Social Sciences, Sage Publications. 2013.
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1230Merleau-Ponty on shared emotions and the joint ownership thesisContinental Philosophy Review 46 (4): 509-531. 2013.In “The Child’s Relations with Others,” Merleau-Ponty argues that certain early experiences are jointly owned in that they are numerically single experiences that are nevertheless given to more than one subject (e.g., the infant and caregiver). Call this the “joint ownership thesis” (JT). Drawing upon both Merleau-Ponty’s phenomenological analysis, as well as studies of exogenous attention and mutual affect regulation in developmental psychology, I motivate the plausibility of JT. I argue that t…Read more
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1051Empathy and the extended mindZygon 44 (3): 675-698. 2009.I draw upon the conceptual resources of the extended mind thesis to analyze empathy and interpersonal understanding. Against the dominant mentalistic paradigm, I argue that empathy is fundamentally an extended bodily activity and that much of our social understanding happens outside of the head. First, I look at how the two dominant models of interpersonal understanding, theory theory and simulation theory, portray the cognitive link between folk psychology and empathy. Next, I challenge their i…Read more
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856William James and Kitaro Nishida on “Pure Experience”, Consciousness, and Moral PsychologyDissertation, Purdue University. 2007.The question “What is the nature of experience?” is of perennial philosophical concern. It deals not only with the nature of experience qua experience, but additionally with related questions about the experiencing subject and that which is experienced. In other words, to speak of the philosophical problem of experience, one must also address questions about mind, world, and the various relations that link them together. Both William James and Kitarō Nishida were deeply concerned with these issu…Read more
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