-
148The Bodily Nature of Consciousness: Sartre and Contemporary Philosophy of MindMind 110 (438): 577-582. 2001.
-
The Struggle for Recognition and the Return of Primary IntersubjectivityIn Véronique M. Fóti & Pavlos Kontos (eds.), Phenomenology and the Primacy of the Political: Essays in Honor of Jacques Taminiaux, Springer. 2017.
-
14Neonatal Imitation: Theory, Experimental Design, and Significance for the Field of Social CognitionFrontiers in Psychology 8. 2017.
-
37Economic Reasoning and Interaction in Socially Extended Market InstitutionsFrontiers in Psychology 10. 2019.An important part of what it means for agents to be situated in the everyday world of human affairs includes their engagement with economic practices. In this paper we employ the concept of cognitive institutions in order to provide an enactive and interactive interpretation of market and economic reasoning. We challenge traditional views that understand markets in terms of market structures or as processors of distributed information. The alternative conception builds upon the notion of the mar…Read more
-
32Rethinking AgainAustralasian Philosophical Review 2 (2): 234-245. 2018.Volume 2, Issue 2, June 2018, Page 234-245.
-
109Rethinking Nature: Phenomenology and a Non-reductionist Cognitive ScienceAustralasian Philosophical Review 2 (2): 125-137. 2018.Resistance to the idea that phenomenology can be relevant to cognitive scientific explanation has faced two objections advanced, respectively, from both sides of the issue: from the scientific perspective it has been suggested that phenomenology, understood as an account of first-person experience, is ultimately reducible to cognitive neuroscientific explanation; and from a phenomenological perspective it has been argued that phenomenology cannot be naturalized. In this context it makes sense to…Read more
-
253Acting Oneself as Another: An Actor’s Empathy for her CharacterTopoi 39 (4): 779-790. 2020.What does it mean for an actor to empathize with the character she is playing? We review different theories of empathy and of acting. We then consider the notion of “twofoldness”, which has been used to characterize the observer or audience perspective on the relation between actor and character. This same kind of twofoldness or double attunement applies from the perspective of the actor herself who must, at certain points of preparation, distinguish between the character portrayed and her own p…Read more
-
47Replies to Barrett, Corris and Chemero, and HuttoPhilosophical Studies 176 (3): 839-851. 2019.In this essay, I respond to the critical remarks of Louise Barrett, Amanda Corris and Anthony Chemero, and Daniel Hutto on my book Enactivist Interventions. In doing so, I consider whether behaviorism can make a contribution to enactivist theory, whether synergies are the same as dynamical gestalts, and whether the brain can add anything to mathematical reasoning.
-
55Precis: Enactivist InterventionsPhilosophical Studies 176 (3): 803-806. 2019.This is a precis of my book Enactivist Interventions (Oxford 2017), published with commentaries by Louise Barrett, Amanda Corris and Anthony Chemero, and Daniel Hutto, plus my replies.
-
209The Extended Mind: State of the QuestionSouthern Journal of Philosophy 56 (4): 421-447. 2018.It has been twenty years since Clark and Chalmers published “The Extended Mind.” In the present article I review the development of the extended mind hypothesis across what some proponents have defined as three theoretical “waves.” From first‐wave extended mind theory, based on the parity principle, to second‐wave complementarity, to the third wave, characterized as an uneasy integration of predictive processing and enactivist dynamics, extended mind theorists have faced and solved a number of p…Read more
-
9Patterns of researchAvant: Trends in Interdisciplinary Studies 5 (2). 2014.Interview with professor Shaun Gallagher.
-
Hermeneutical approaches to educational researchIn Helmut Danner (ed.), Hermeneutics and Educational Discourse, Thorold's Africana Books [distributor]. pp. 129--148. 1997.
-
The Self: Philosophical ProblemsIn Lynn Nadel (ed.), The Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science, Macmillan. 2002.
-
28Another look at intentions: A response to Raphael van Riel’s “On how we perceive the social world”Consciousness and Cognition 17 (2): 553-555. 2008.
-
31The spatiality of situation: Comment on Legrand et al.☆☆☆Consciousness and Cognition 16 (3): 700-702. 2007.
-
70Review: Reconstructing the Cognitive World: The Next Step (review)Mind 116 (463): 792-796. 2007.
-
52The Therapeutic Reconstruction of AffordancesRes Philosophica 95 (4): 719-736. 2018.I argue that a variety of physical disabilities, and neurological and psychiatric disorders can be understood in terms of changes to the subject’s affordance space. Understanding disorders in this way also has some implications for therapy. On the basis of a phenomenological- and pragmatist-inspired enactivism I propose an affordance-based approach to therapy with a focus on changing physical, social, and cultural environments, and I consider the role of virtual and mixed realities in this conte…Read more
-
From False Beliefs to True Interactions: Are Chimpanzees Socially Enactive?In Kristin Andrews & Jacob Beck (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Animal Minds, Routledge. pp. 280-288. 2017.In their 1978 paper, psychologists David Premack and Guy Woodruff posed the question, “Does the chimpanzee have a theory of mind?” They treated this question as interchangeable with the inquiry, “Does a chimpanzee make inferences about another individual, in any degree or kind?” Here, we offer an alternative way of thinking about this issue, positing that while chimpanzees may not possess a theory of mind in the strict sense, we ought to think of them as enactive perceivers of practical and soci…Read more
-
95The Oxford Handbook of 4E CognitionOxford University Press. 2018.4E cognition (embodied, embedded, enactive, and extended) is a relatively young and thriving field of interdisciplinary research. It assumes that cognition is shaped and structured by dynamic interactions between the brain, body, and both the physical and social environments. With essays from leading scholars and researchers, The Oxford Handbook of 4E Cognition investigates this recent paradigm. It addresses the central issues of embodied cognition by focusing on recent trends, such as Bayesian …Read more
-
24Word as Object: A View of Language at HandJournal of Cognition and Culture 14 (5): 373-384. 2014.Here we develop a view of language as a form of material engagement, one that foregrounds its embodied and ecological character. Achieving such a view, however, requires disabusing ourselves of certain received and deeply entrenched notions. We present a thought experiment meant to illuminate the materiality of language, as a technological activity on par with the construction and manipulation of artifacts. We explore its implications, justifying the comparison with actual languages while emphas…Read more
-
77Dynamical Relations in the Self-PatternFrontiers in Psychology 9. 2018.Abstract: The notion of a self-pattern, as developed in the pattern theory of self, which holds that the self is best explained in terms of the kind of reality that pertains to a dynamical pattern, acknowledges the importance of neural dynamics, but also expands the account of self to extra-neural (embodied and enactive) dynamics. The pattern theory of self, however, has been criticized for failing to explicate the dynamical relations among elements of the self-pattern; as such, it seems to be n…Read more
-
18The Multidimensionality and Context Dependency of SelvesAmerican Journal of Bioethics Neuroscience 8 (2): 112-114. 2017.
-
41Précis: The Phenomenological MindAbstracta 4 (3): 4-9. 2008.It is difficult to give a nice succinct précis of The Phenomenological Mind since it is composed of a set of chapters each of which addresses a different topic. The topics are linked in numerous ways. There is one way, however, in which all of the chapters are bound together to constitute a unified whole, and this might be considered something like a framework proposition. Phenomenology, understood as the philosophical approach taken up by Husserl and a number of people who loosely follow his le…Read more
-
Delusional experienceIn John Bickle (ed.), The Oxford handbook of philosophy and neuroscience, Oxford University Press. pp. 513--521. 2009.
-
The self in contextualized actionJournal of Consciousness Studies 6 (4): 4-30. 1999.This paper suggests that certain traditional ways of analysing the self start off in situations that are abstract or detached from normal experience, and that the conclusions reached in such approaches are, as a result, inexact or mistaken. The paper raises the question of whether there are more contextualized forms of self-consciousness than those usually appealed to in philosophical or psychological analyses, and whether they can be the basis for a more adequate theoretical approach to the sel…Read more
-
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
-
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
-
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.
Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America
Areas of Specialization
1 more
Phenomenology |
Maurice Merleau-Ponty |
Hermeneutics |
Philosophy of Mind |
Philosophy of Cognitive Science |
Philosophy of Psychiatry |