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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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446Interdisciplinary 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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1228Merleau-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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1049Empathy 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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617Musicing, Materiality, and the Emotional NicheAction, Criticism, and Theory for Music Education 14 (3): 43-62. 2015.Building on Elliot and SilvermanÕs (2015) embodied and enactive approach to musicing, I argue for an extended approach: namely, the idea that music can function as an environmental scaffolding supporting the development of various experiences and embodied practices that would otherwise remain inaccessible. I focus especially on the materiality of music. I argue that one of the central ways we use music, as a material resource, is to manipulate social spaceÑand in so doing, manipulate our emoti…Read more
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628The Open BodyIn Antonella Carassa, Francesca Morganti & Guiseppa Riva (eds.), Enacting Intersubjectivity: Paving the Way for a Dialogue Between Cognitive Science, Social Cognition, and Neuroscience, Universita Della Svizzera Italiana. pp. 109-128. 2009.In this paper we characterize the body as constitutively open. We fi rst consider the notion of bodily openness at the basic level of its organic constitution. This will provide us a framework relevant for the understanding of the body open to its intersubjective world. We argue that the notion of “bodily openness” captures a constitutive dimension of intersubjectivity. Generally speaking, there are two families of theories intending to characterize the constitutive relation between subjectivity…Read more
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1817Extended emotionsPhilosophy Compass 11 (12): 863-878. 2016.Until recently, philosophers and psychologists conceived of emotions as brain- and body-bound affairs. But researchers have started to challenge this internalist and individualist orthodoxy. A rapidly growing body of work suggests that some emotions incorporate external resources and thus extend beyond the neurophysiological confines of organisms; some even argue that emotions can be socially extended and shared by multiple agents. Call this the extended emotions thesis. In this article, we cons…Read more
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921Stream of ConsciousnessIn John Lachs & Robert Talisse (eds.), Encyclopedia of American Philosophy, Routledge. 2007.
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1857At home in and beyond our skin: Posthuman embodiment in film and televisionIn Hauskeller Michael, Carbonell Curtis D. & Philbeck Thomas D. (eds.), Handbook of Posthumanism in Film and Television, Palgrave-macmillan. pp. 172-181. 2015.Film and television portrayals of posthuman cyborgs melding biology and technology, simultaneously “animal and machine” abound. Most of us immediately think of iconic characters like Arnold Schwarzenegger’s relentless cyborg assassin in the Terminator series or Peter Weller’s crime-fighting cyborg police officer in Robocop (1987). Or perhaps we recall the many cyborgs populating the Dr. Who, Star Trek, and Star Wars television series and films—including Darth Vader, surely the most famous cinema…Read more
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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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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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308Control and Flexibility of Interactive Alignment: Mobius Syndrome as a Case StudyCognitive Processing 15 (1). 2014.
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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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Japanese Philosophy |
William James |
John Dewey |
Asian Philosophy |
American Pragmatism, Misc |
Musical Experience |