The Phenomenological Mind: An Introduction to

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 empirical cognitive sciences phenomenology and consciousness consciousness and self-consciousness, including perception and action time and consciousness, including William James, Edmund Husserl and temporal disorders in psychopathology intentionality the embodied mind action knowledge of other minds situated and extended minds phenomenology and personal identity. Interesting and important examples are used throughout, including phantom limb syndrome, blindsight and self-disorders in schizophrenia, making the Phenomenological Mind an ideal introduction to key concepts in phenomenology, cognitive science and philosophy of mind.

Shaun Gallagher is Professor and Chair of Philosophy and Cognitive Sciences at the University of Central Florida and Research Professor of Philosophy and Cognitive Science at the University of Hertfordshire Dan Zahavi is Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Center for Subjectivity Research at the University of Copenhagen

List of figures	p. ix
Acknowledgements	p. xi
Introduction: philosophy of mind, cognitive science and phenomenology	p. 1
An oversimplified account of the last 100 years	p. 2
What is phenomenology?	p. 5
Outline of this book	p. 10
Methodologies	p. 13
Fantasies in the science of consciousness	p. 14
Phenomenological method	p. 19
Naturalizing phenomenology	p. 28
Conclusion	p. 40
Consciousness and self-consciousness	p. 45
Consciousness and pre-reflective self-consciousness	p. 46
Pre-reflective self-consciousness and 'what it is like'	p. 49
Blindsight	p. 57
Self-consciousness and reflection	p. 61
Conclusion: driving it home	p. 65
Time	p. 69
The default account	p. 70
A phenomenology of time-consciousness	p. 75
The micro-structure of consciousness and self-consciousness	p. 79
Time-consciousness and dynamical systems theory	p. 80
Is consciousness of a temporal process itself temporally extended?	p. 82
Historicity	p. 85
Perception	p. 89
Perceptual holism	p. 94
The role of others	p. 100
Intentionality	p. 107
What is intentionality?	p. 109
Resemblance, causation, and mental representation	p. 111
The positive account	p. 113
Intentionalism	p. 116
Intentionality and consciousness	p. 119
Phenomenology, externalism, and metaphysical realism	p. 121
The embodied mind	p. 129
Robotic and biological bodies	p. 133
How the body defines the space of experience	p. 141
The body as experientially transparent	p. 144
Embodiment and social cognition	p. 148
Action and agency	p. 153
The phenomenology of agency	p. 158
Experimenting with the sense of agency	p. 162
My actions and yours	p. 167
How we know others	p. 171
Theory of mind debate	p. 171
Problems with implicit simulation	p. 177
Empathy and the argument from analogy	p. 181
Mentalism and the conceptual problem of other minds	p. 183
Interaction and narrative	p. 187
Self and person	p. 197
Neuroscepticism and the no-self doctrine	p. 198
Various notions of self	p. 199
Sociality and personality	p. 205
A developmental story	p. 206
Pathologies of the self	p. 208
Conclusion	p. 213
Conclusion	p. 217
References	p. 223
Index	p. 240
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