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28The 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 empirical cognitive sciences phenomenology and consciousness consciousness and self-consciousness, including perception and action time and consciousness, including William James intentionality the embodied mind action knowledge of other minds situated and e…Read more
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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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63The (in)visibility of others: a reply to HerschbachPhilosophical Explorations 11 (3): 237-244. 2008.In his article ‘Folk Psychological and Phenomenological Accounts of Social Perception’ (this issue), Mitchell Herschbach raises some critical questions concerning our phenomenological approach to intersubjectivity. We welcome Herschbach's comments in the spirit of constructive criticism, but also think that he has missed some crucial aspects of our argumentation. We take this opportunity to amplify and clarify our views.
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Review of Jose Luis Bermudez's' The paradox of self-consciousness' (review)Journal of Consciousness Studies 7 (7): 45-50. 2000.
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68Reading Merleau-Ponty: On Phenomenology of Perception, edited by Thomas Baldwin (review)Mind 118 (472): 1105-1111. 2009.(No abstract is available for this citation)
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346Phenomenological approaches to self-consciousnessStanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. 2008.On the phenomenological view, a minimal form of self-consciousness is a constant structural feature of conscious experience. Experience happens for the experiencing subject in an immediate way and as part of this immediacy, it is implicitly marked as my experience. For the phenomenologists, this immediate and first-personal givenness of experiential phenomena must be accounted for in terms of a pre-reflective self-consciousness. In the most basic sense of the term, selfconsciousness is not somet…Read more
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Book Review: A. Gopnik & AN Meltzoff, Words, Thoughts, and Theories (review)Journal of Consciousness Studies 5 (1): 122-124. 1998.
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53Linguistic correlates of self in deceptive oral autobiographical narrativesConsciousness and Cognition 20 (3): 547-555. 2011.The current study collected orally-delivered autobiographical narratives from a sample of 44 undergraduate students. Participants were asked to produce both deceptive and non-deceptive versions of their narrative to two specific autobiographical question prompts while standing in front of a video camera. Narratives were then analyzed with Coh-Metrix software on 33 indices of linguistic cohesion. Following a Bonferroni correction for the large number of linguistic variables , results indicated th…Read more
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189Unity and disunity in bodily awareness: Phenomenology and neuroscienceAssociation for the Scientific Study of Consciousness Workshop. 2000.
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19An unsettled debate: Key empirical and theoretical questions are still open – CORRIGENDUMBehavioral and Brain Sciences 41. 2018.
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66Deep Brain Stimulation, Self and Relational AutonomyNeuroethics 14 (1): 31-43. 2018.Questions about the nature of self and self-consciousness are closely aligned with questions about the nature of autonomy. These concepts have deep roots in traditional philosophical discussions that concern metaphysics, epistemology and ethics. They also have direct relevance to practical considerations about informed consent in medical contexts. In this paper, with reference to understanding specific side effects of deep brain stimulation treatment in cases of, for example, Parkinson’s Disease…Read more
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688Are Minimal Representations Still Representations?1International Journal of Philosophical Studies 16 (3): 351-369. 2008.I examine the following question: Do actions require representations that are intrinsic to the action itself? Recent work by Mark Rowlands, Michael Wheeler, and Andy Clark suggests that actions may require a minimal form of representation. I argue that the various concepts of minimal representation on offer do not apply to action per se and that a non‐representationalist account that focuses on dynamic systems of self‐organizing continuous reciprocal causation at the sub‐personal level is superi…Read more
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67The Past, Present and Future of Time-Consciousness: From Husserl to Varela and BeyondConstructivist Foundations 13 (1): 91-97. 2017.In developing an enactivist phenomenology the analysis of time-consciousness needs to be pushed toward a fully enactivist account. Problem: Varela proposed a neurophenomenology of time-consciousness. I attempt to push this analysis towards a more complete enactivist phenomenology of time-consciousness. Method: I review Varela’s account of time-consciousness, which brings Husserl’s phenomenological analysis of the intrinsic temporal structure of experience into contact with contemporary neuroscie…Read more
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13Author's Response: Internatural RelationsConstructivist Foundations 13 (1): 110-116. 2017.I offer some clarification on how enactivism is related to naturalism, predictive processing and transcendental phenomenology, and I point to a paradox that requires further clarification with regard to the structure of intrinsic temporality and the nature of self.
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22An unsettled debate: Key empirical and theoretical questions are still openBehavioral and Brain Sciences 40. 2017.
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59Self-defense: Deflecting Deflationary and Eliminativist Critiques of the Sense of OwnershipFrontiers in Psychology 8. 2017.
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62From Varela to a different phenomenology. Interview with Shaun Gallagher, Part IAvant: Trends in Interdisciplinary Studies 2 (2): 77-88. 2011.Philosophical hermeneutics, understood as the theory of nterpretation, investigates some questions that are also asked in the cognitive sciences. The nature of human understanding, the way that we gain and organize knowledge, the role played by language and memory in these considerations, the relations between conscious and unconscious knowledge, and how we understand other persons, are all good examples of issues that form the intersection of hermeneutics and the cognitive sciences. Although he…Read more
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70Przerysować mapę i przestawić czas: fenomenologia i nauki kognitywneAvant: Trends in Interdisciplinary Studies 1 (1): 77-122. 2010.We argue that phenomenology can be of central and positive importance to the cognitive sciences, and that it can also learn from the empirical research conducted in those sciences. We discuss the project of naturalizing phenomenology and how this can be best accomplished. We provide several examples of how phenomenology and the cognitive sciences can integrate their research. Specifically, we consider issues related to embodied cognition and intersubjectivity. We provide a detailed analysis of i…Read more
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44Hermeneutyka i nauki kognitywneAvant: Trends in Interdisciplinary Studies 2 (2): 197-212. 2011.Philosophical hermeneutics, understood as the theory of nterpretation, investigates some questions that are also asked in the cognitive sciences. The nature of human understanding, the way that we gain and organize knowledge, the role played by language and memory in these considerations, the relations between conscious and unconscious knowledge, and how we understand other persons, are all good examples of issues that form the intersection of hermeneutics and the cognitive sciences. Although he…Read more
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62Enactivist Interventions: Rethinking the MindOxford University Press. 2017.Enactivist Interventions is an interdisciplinary work that explores how theories of embodied cognition illuminate many aspects of the mind, including perception, affect, and action. Gallagher argues that the brain is not secluded from the world or isolated in its own processes, but rather is dynamically connected with body and environment.
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81Re-Authoring Narrative TherapyPhilosophy, Psychiatry, and Psychology 24 (2): 157-167. 2017.How we narrate our lives can affect us, for good or ill. Our narrative practices make an undeniable difference to our psychosocial well-being. All so-called "talking cures" – including traditional psychoanalytic and psychodynamic approaches to therapy and newer techniques – are motivated by this insight about the power of personal narratives. All therapies of the discursive ilk make use of narratives, in one way or another, as a means of enabling individuals to frame, or reframe, and to manage t…Read more
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18Planting Some New Thoughts on the LandscapeJournal of Applied Philosophy 34 (5): 730-736. 2017.In this comment on Jonathan Glover's Alien Landscapes? I'll focus on two issues: social cognition in autism, and delusions; and I'll introduce a new topic – solitary confinement – as a supplement to Glover's far-ranging analyses.
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524Experimenting with phenomenologyConsciousness and Cognition 15 (1): 119-134. 2006.We review the use of introspective and phenomenological methods in experimental settings. We distinguish different senses of introspection, and further distinguish phenomenological method from introspectionist approaches. Two ways of using phenomenology in experimental procedures are identified: first, the neurophenomenological method, proposed by Varela, involves the training of experimental subjects. This approach has been directly and productively incorporated into the protocol of experiments…Read more
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Lived Body and Time: A Phenomenologically Based Account of Human NatureDissertation, Bryn Mawr College. 1980.Throughout the history of western philosophy human nature and the nature of time have been thought to exhibit a significant relationship. The nature and origin of time is frequently questioned in reference to its involvement with human corporality or human spirituality. The human body, tempora
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82Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences: Editorial IntroductionPhenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences 1 (1): 1-6. 2002.
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On the immunity principle: a view from a robot-ReplyTrends in Cognitive Sciences 4 (5): 167-168. 2000.
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306Body image and body schema in a deafferented subjectJournal of Mind and Behavior 16 (4): 369-390. 1995.In a majority of situations the normal adult maintains posture or moves without consciously monitoring motor activity. Posture and movement are usually close to automatic; they tend to take care of themselves, outside of attentive regard. One's body, in such cases, effaces itself as one is geared into a particular intentional goal. This effacement is possible because of the normal functioning of a body schema. Body schema can be defined as a system of preconscious, subpersonal processes that pla…Read more
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103Strong Interaction and Self-AgencyHumana Mente 4 (15): 55-76. 2011.The interaction theory of social cognition contends that intersubjective interaction is characterized by both immersion and irreducibility. This motivates a question about autonomy and self-agency: If I am always caught up in processes of interaction, and interaction always goes beyond me and my ultimate control, is there any room for self-agency? I outline an answer to this question that points to the importance of communicative and narrative practices
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