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Consciousness and Cognitive Sciences journal-psychoanalysis.eu 11 facts
claimDaniel Dennett asserts in his 1991 book that Phenomenology has failed because it has not established a settled method that researchers can agree upon.
referenceBruce Mangan published 'Taking phenomenology seriously: The ‘fringe’ and its implications for cognitive research' in Consciousness and Cognition in 1993.
referenceShaun Gallagher published 'Mutual enlightenment: Recent phenomenology and cognitive science' in the Journal of Consciousness Studies in 1998.
quoteLike other attempts to strip away interpretation and reveal the basic facts of consciousness to rigorous observation, such as the Impressionistic movements in the arts [sic] and the Introspectionist psychologies of Wundt, Titchener and others, Phenomenology has failed to find a single settled method that everyone could agree upon.
quoteDaniel Dennett, in his 1991 work, argues against the existence of actual phenomenology, stating: "There is no such phenomenon as really seeming–over and above the phenomenon of judging in one way or another that something is the case… But what about the actual phenomenology? There is no such thing."
perspectiveThe book 'Consciousness and Cognitive Sciences' serves as an argument against psycho-neural identity theory, asserting that phenomenology is not merely a 'garb' but permeates the intrinsic nature of the phenomena being studied.
claimPhenomenology defines voluntary action as a lived experience, emphasizing the role of embodiment (lived body or corps propre) and the relationship between the lived body and its world (Leibhaftigkeit).
claimPhenomenology provides descriptions relevant to first-person phenomena, whereas natural science provides explanatory accounts in the third person.
perspectiveThe author of the article 'Consciousness and Cognitive Sciences' argues that Daniel Dennett incorrectly conflates Impressionism, Introspectionism, and Phenomenology, and mistakenly assumes that universal agreement is necessary to validate a research program.
referenceFrancisco J. Varela published the article 'The naturalization of phenomenology as the transcendence of nature' in the journal Alter in 1997.
referenceNatalie Depraz published 'Lucidité du corps. De l’empirisme transcendental en phénoménologie' in 2001 through Kruwer in Dordrecht.
Moving Forward on the Problem of Consciousness - David Chalmers consc.net 8 facts
claimJonathan Shear and Francisco Varela concentrate on phenomenological approaches to the hard problem of consciousness.
referenceClark, T. (1995) authored 'Function and phenomenology: Closing the explanatory gap', published in the Journal of Consciousness Studies 2:241-54.
claimDavid Chalmers posits that an empirical theory of consciousness requires two types of data: neuro/cognitive science providing third-person data and phenomenology providing first-person data.
claimDavid Chalmers argues that phenomenology alone cannot solve the hard problem of consciousness, as it remains neutral on ontological debates, though it is central to the epistemology of the hard problem because it defines what needs explaining.
procedureDavid Chalmers proposes a methodology for consciousness research that involves paying attention to both physical processing and phenomenology, finding systematic regularities between them, working down to simpler principles, and explaining the connection through fundamental laws.
claimDavid Chalmers states that phenomenology is largely neutral on ontological debates, with the possible exception of rejecting type-A materialism.
claimDaniel Dennett argues that his own phenomenology reveals only functions that require explanation.
claimDavid Chalmers argues that the potential for error in phenomenological judgments does not invalidate phenomenology, noting that judgments about external data can also be wrong while science still functions effectively.
Self-Consciousness - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy plato.stanford.edu Jul 13, 2017 4 facts
perspectiveJosé Luis Bermúdez (2011) argues for a reductive account of the sense of ownership over one's own body, consisting of the phenomenology of the spatial location of bodily sensations combined with the disposition to judge the body in which they occur as one's own.
referenceEdmund Husserl's 'Ideas Pertaining to a Pure Phenomenology and to a Phenomenological Philosophy, First Book' (1913) was translated by F. Kersten and published by Kluwer in 1998.
referenceMonima Chadha discussed the 'no-self' concept and the phenomenology of agency in her 2017 paper 'No-Self and the Phenomenology of Agency'.
referenceShaun Gallagher authored the book 'Phenomenology', published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2012.
Consciousness (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy/Fall 2025 ... plato.stanford.edu Jun 18, 2004 3 facts
referenceIn the German and European sphere, interest in the larger structure of experience led to the development of phenomenology, which expanded the study of consciousness into social, bodily, and interpersonal realms through the work of Edmund Husserl (1913, 1929), Martin Heidegger (1927), and Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1945).
referenceEdmund Husserl published 'Cartesian Meditations: an Introduction to Phenomenology' in 1929, with a 1960 translation by Dorian Cairns published by M. Nijhoff.
referenceC. Hardin published 'Physiology, phenomenology, and Spinoza's true colors' in the book 'Emergence or Reduction?: Prospects for Nonreductive Physicalism', edited by A. Beckermann, H. Flohr, and J. Kim, in 1992.
The Mechanisms of Psychedelic Visionary Experiences - Frontiers frontiersin.org Sep 27, 2017 3 facts
referenceDavid Luke's 2011 study, 'Disincarnate entities and dimethyltryptamine (DMT): psychopharmacology, phenomenology and ontology', explores the relationship between the hallucinogen DMT and the experience of encountering disincarnate entities.
referenceBarrett, F. and Griffiths, R. (2017) published 'Classic hallucinogens and mystical experiences: phenomenology and neural correlates' in Current Topics in Behavioral Neurosciences.
claimRay (2012, 2016) proposes that the diversity in the phenomenology of psychedelic experiences is a consequence of the distinctly different neurotransmitter receptor profiles that each substance engages.
Classification Schemes of Altered States of Consciousness - ORBi orbi.uliege.be 3 facts
referenceDagfinn Føllesdal authored 'Husserl's Reductions and the Role They Play in His Phenomenology', published in 'A Companion to Phenomenology and Existentialism' by Blackwell Publishing Ltd in 2006.
referenceWackermann, J., Putz, P., and Allefeld, C. (2008) published 'Ganzfeld-induced hallucinatory experience, its phenomenology and cerebral electrophysiology' in Cortex, which examines the phenomenology and electrophysiology of hallucinations induced by the Ganzfeld procedure.
referenceWittmann, M. (2018) published 'Altered States of Consciousness: Experiences Out of Time and Self' through MIT Press, which explores the phenomenology of altered states.
Panpsychism - Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org 2 facts
perspectiveBritish philosopher David Papineau states his view is "not unlike panpsychism" because he rejects a distinction in nature between "events lit up by phenomenology" and "those that are mere darkness."
perspectiveDavid Bohm argued that the measurement problem is a clash of classical physics, quantum mechanics, and phenomenology, as all three levels of description are difficult to reconcile or contradictory.
Critique of Panpsychism: Philosophical Coherence and Scientific ... thequran.love May 7, 2025 2 facts
claimPanpsychism is a monistic metaphysics that attempts to synthesize physics, which focuses on structure, and phenomenology, which focuses on experience.
claimThe proposal for a 'post-Galilean' science aims to combine neuroscience with phenomenology into a single framework, though this remains a speculative and promissory vision.
Panpsychism - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy plato.stanford.edu Jul 18, 2017 1 fact
referenceThe chapter "Orthodox Property Dualism + Linguistic Theory of Vagueness = Panpsychism" by Philip Goff was published in the book "Consciousness Inside and Out: Phenomenology, Neuroscience, and the Nature of Experience", edited by Richard Brown, by Springer in Dordrecht in 2013, pages 75–91.
PANPSYCHISM (Philosophy of Mind Series) - Amazon.com amazon.com 1 fact
claimLudwig Jaskolla's current research foci include the metaphysics and phenomenology of persons, the philosophy of psychology, issues in the meta-ethics of virtue theory, and the philosophy of technology.
Quantum Approaches to Consciousness plato.stanford.edu Nov 30, 2004 1 fact
referenceMasafumi Oizumi, Larissa Albantakis, and Giulio Tononi published the article "From the phenomenology to the mechanisms of consciousness: Integrated information theory 3.0" in PLoS Computational Biology in 2014.
Complexity and the Evolution of Consciousness | Biological Theory link.springer.com Sep 14, 2022 1 fact
referenceWalter Veit and Heather Browning authored 'Phenomenology applied to animal health and suffering' in the 2021 book 'Phenomenology of bioethics: technoethics and lived-experience', edited by S. Ferrarello and published by Springer Nature Switzerland.
AI Sessions #9: The Case Against AI Consciousness (with Anil Seth) conspicuouscognition.com Feb 17, 2026 1 fact
claimThe phenomenology of consciousness is plausibly an intrinsic and inescapable dimension of time.
Panpsychism (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy/Fall 2025 Edition) plato.stanford.edu May 23, 2001 1 fact
referenceLuke Roelofs and Philip Goff authored 'In Defence of Phenomenal Sharing', forthcoming in the collection 'The Phenomenology of Self-Awareness and Conscious Subjects' edited by Bugnon, Nida-Rümelin, and O’Conaill.