Naturalizing Phenomenology : Issues in Contemporary Phenomenology and Cognitive Science / ed. by Jean Petitot, francisco J. Varela, Bernard Pachoud, Jean-Michel Roy.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Barbaras, Renaud, Contributor.

Botero, Juan-José, Contributor.

Casati, Roberto, Contributor.

Depraz, Natalie, Contributor.

Dupuy, Jean-Pierre, Contributor.

Follesdal, Dagfinn, Contributor.

Longo, Giuseppe, Contributor.

Mcintyre, Ronald, Contributor.

Noe, Alva, Contributor.

Pacherie, Elisabeth, Contributor.

Pachoud, Bernard, Contributor.

Pachoud, Bernard, Editor.

Pessoa, Luiz, Contributor.

Petit, Jean-Luc, Contributor.

Petitot, Jean, Contributor.

Petitot, Jean, Editor.

Roy, Jean-Michel, Contributor.

Roy, Jean-Michel, Editor.

Salanskis, Jean-Michel, Contributor.

Smith, Barry, Contributor.

Smith, David Woodruff, Contributor.

Thompson, Evan, Contributor.

Van Gelder, Tim, Contributor.

Varela, Francisco J., Contributor.

Varela, francisco J., Editor.

Villela-Petit, Maria, Contributor.

Series:

Writing Science

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (672 p.) : 42 figures

Place of Publication:

Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press, [2022]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

CONTENTS

FOREWORD

CONTRIBUTORS

CHAPTER ONE Beyond the Gap: An Introduction to Naturalizing Phenomenology

Part One: Intentionality, Movement, and Temporality

Intentionality

CHAPTER TWO Intentionality Naturalized?

CHAPTER THREE Saving Intentional Phenomena: Intentionality, Representation, and Symbol

CHAPTER FOUR Leibhaftigkeit and Representational Theories of Perception

Movement

CHAPTER FIVE Perceptual Completion: A Case Study in Phenomenology and Cognitive Science

CHAPTER SIX The Teleological Dimension of Perceptual and Motor Intentionality

CHAPTER SEVEN Constitution by Movement: Husserl in Light of Recent Neurobiological Findings

Temporality

CHAPTER EIGHT Wooden Iron? Husserlian Phenomenology Meets Cognitive Science

CHAPTER NINE The Specious Present: A Neurophenomenology of Time Consciousness

PART TWO MATHEMATICS IN PHENOMENOLOGY

Formal Models

CHAPTER TEN Truth and the Visual Field

CHAPTER ELEVEN Morphological Eidetics for a Phenomenology of Perception

CHAPTER TWELVE Formal Structures in the Phenomenology of Motion

Phenomenology and Mathematics

CHAPTER THIRTEEN Gödel and Husserl

CHAPTER FOURTEEN The Mathematical Continuum: From Intuition to Logic

PART THREE THE NATURE AND LIMITS OF NATURALIZATION

Philosophical Strategies of Naturalization

CHAPTER FIFTEEN Naturalizing Phenomenology? Dretske on Qualia

CHAPTER SIXTEEN The Immediately Given as Ground and Background

CHAPTER SEVENTEEN When Transcendental Genesis Encounters the Naturalization Project

Skeptical Attitudes

CHAPTER EIGHTEEN Sense and Continuum in Husserl

CHAPTER NINETEEN Cognitive Psychology and the Transcendental Theory of Knowledge

CHAPTER TWENTY The Movement of the Living as the Originary Foundation of Perceptual Intentionality

Historical Perspectives

CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE Philosophy and Cognition: Historical Roots

NOTES

BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX OF PERSONS

INDEX OF TOPICS

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 31. Jan 2022)

ISBN:

1-5036-1742-4

OCLC:

1294424201