Naturalizing phenomenology : issues in contemporary phenomenology and cognitive science
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Naturalizing phenomenology : issues in contemporary phenomenology and cognitive science
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Stanford University Press, c1999
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Other editors: Francisco J. Varela, Bernard Pachoud, Jean-Michel Roy
Includes bibliographical references (p. 597-629) and indexes
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Description
This ambitious work aims to shed new light on the relations between Husserlian phenomenology and the present-day efforts toward a scientific theory of cognition-with its complex structure of disciplines, levels of explanation, and conflicting hypotheses.
The book's primary goal is not to present a new exegesis of Husserl's writings, although it does not dismiss the importance of such interpretive and critical work. Rather, the contributors assess the extent to which the kind of phenomenological investigation Husserl initiated favors the construction of a scientific theory of cognition, particularly in contributing to specific contemporary theories either by complementing or by questioning them. What clearly emerges is that Husserlian phenomenology cannot become instrumental in developing cognitive science without undergoing a substantial transformation. Therefore, the central concern of this book is not only the progress of contemporary theories of cognition but also the reorientation of Husserlian phenomenology.
Because a single volume could never encompass the numerous facets of this dual aim, the contributors focus on the issue of naturalization. This perspective is far-reaching enough to allow for the coverage of a great variety of topics, ranging from general structures of intentionality, to the nature of the founding epistemological and ontological principles of cognitive science, to analyses of temporality and perception and the mathematical modeling of their phenomenological description.
This book, then, is a collective reflection on the possibility of utilizing a naturalized Husserlian phenomenology to contribute to a scientific theory of cognition that fills the explanatory gap between the phenomenological mind and brain.
Table of Contents
Foreword 1. Beyond the gap: an introduction to naturalizing phenomenology Jean-Michel Roy, Jean Petitot, Bernard Pachoud and Francisco J. Varela Part I. Intentionality, Movement and Temporality: 2. Intentionality naturalized? David Woodruff Smith 3. Saving intentional phenomena: intentionality, representation, and symbol Jean-Michel Roy 4. Leibhaftigkeit and representational theories of perception Elisabeth Pecherie 5. Perceptual completion: a case study in phenomenology and cognitive science Evan Thompson, Alva Noe and Luiz Pessoa 6. The teleological dimension of perceptual and motor intentionality Bernard Pachoud 7. Constitution by movement: Husserl in light of recent neurobiological findings Jean-Luc Petit 8. Wooden iron? Husserlian phenomenology meets cognitive science Tim van Gelder 9. The specious present: a neurophenomenology of time consciousness Francisco J. Varela Part II. Mathematics in Phenomenology: 10. Truth and the visual field Barry Smith 11. Morphological eidetics for a penomenology of perception Jean Petitot 12. Formal structures in the phenomenology of motion Roberto Casati 13. Godel and Husserl Dagfinn Follesdal 14. The mathematical continuum: from intuition to logic Giuseppe Longo Part III. The Nature and Limits of Naturalization: 15. Naturalizing phenomenology? Dretske on Qualia Ronald McIntyre 16. The immediately given as ground and background Juan-Jose Botero 17. When transcendental genesis encounters the naturalization project Natalie Depraz 18. Sense and continuum in Husserl Jean-Michel Salanskis 19. Cognitive psychology and the transcendental theory of knowledge Maria Villela-Petit 20. The movement of the living as the originary foundation of perceptual intentionality Renaud Barbaras 21. Philosophy and cognition: historical roots Jean-Pierre Dupuy Notes Bibliography Index of persons Index of topics.
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