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364On Becoming Aware: A Pragmatics of ExperiencingJohn Benjamins. 2003.Searches for the sources and means for a disciplined practical approach to exploring human experience.
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138Introspection as practiceJournal of Consciousness Studies 6 (2-3): 17-42. 1999.In this article I am not going to try and define introspection. I am going to try to state as precisely as possible how the practice of introspection can be improved, starting from the principle that there exists a disjunction between the logic of action and of conceptualization and the practice of introspection does not require that one should already be in possession of an exhaustive scientific knowledge bearing upon it. . To make matters worse, innumerable commentators upon what passes for in…Read more
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90Attention between phenomenology and experimental psychologyContinental Philosophy Review 37 (1): 45-81. 2004.It is possible to consider attention as the modulating dimension of consciousness. Understood in this sense, attention can be a privileged theme for relating the first person point of view (conceived as a psycho-phenomenology inspired by the work of Husserl) to the experimental sciences (e.g. psychology, neuropsychology, etc.), which have done a great deal of work on attention. This article will take up in succession some different points of view regarding the status of attention and its structu…Read more
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65Describing the practice of introspectionJournal of Consciousness Studies 16 (10-12): 20-57. 2009.The main objective of this article is to capitalise on many years of research, and of practice, relating to the use of introspection in a research context, and thus to provide an initial outline description of introspection, while developing an introspection of introspection. After a description of the context of this research, I define the institutional conditions which would enable the renewal of introspection as a research methodology. Then I describe three aspects of introspective practice: …Read more
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62Fully embodying the personal levelBehavioral and Brain Sciences 21 (6): 777-778. 1998.The target article concludes that it is essential to introduce the personal level in cognitive science. We propose to take this conclusion one step further. The personal level should consist of first-person accounts of specific, contextualized experiences, not abstract or imagined cases. Exploring first-person accounts at their own level of detail calls for the refinements of method that can link up with neural accounts.
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27Husserl the Great Unrecognized Psychologist!Journal of Consciousness Studies 18 (2): 20-23. 2011.
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9Notes on the Coupling between the Observer and the Observed in Psycho-PhenomenologyConstructivist Foundations 11 (2): 391-393. 2016.Open peer commentary on the article “Going Beyond Theory: Constructivism and Empirical Phenomenology” by Urban Kordeš. Upshot: This commentary supports the view of the target article concerning the interest of taking into account the coupling between the observing scientist and the subject, and applying it in particular to the study of subjective experience. I propose to identify three aspects of coupling: the technical conditions of coupling between the observer and the subject being observed i…Read more
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7Access Conditions to Past ExperienceConstructivist Foundations 13 (2): 235-237. 2018.Open peer commentary on the article “Excavating Belief About Past Experience: Experiential Dynamics of the Reflective Act” by Urban Kordeš & Ema Demšar. Upshot: I discuss four points: The “excavation fallacy” is a skeptical assertion, therefore, it is not a valid argument; Nisbett & Wilson’s results are experimental artefacts; Guiding to recall enables the exceeding of limits ruled by experimental psychology of memory; A typology of research situations must be introduced to the way we consider m…Read more
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5On Becoming Aware: A Pragmatics of Experiencing. Advances in Consciousness Research (edited book)John Benjamins Publishing. 2003.This book searches for the sources and means for a disciplined practical approach to exploring human experience. The spirit of this book is "pragmatic" and relies on a Husserlian phenomenology primarily understood as a "method" of exploring our experience. The authors do not aim at a neo-Kantian "a priori" new theory of experience but instead they describe a concrete activity: how we examine what we live through, how we "become aware" of our own mental life. The range of experiences of which we …Read more
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1No Competition Between DES and EI Reply to Froese, Gould and SethJournal of Consciousness Studies 18 (2): 79-89. 2011.
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The point of view of the researcherIn Natalie Depraz, Francisco J. Varela & Pierre Vermersch (eds.), On Becoming Aware: A Pragmatics of Experiencing, John Benjamins. pp. 115-154. 2003.