Phenomenology And Science

Author : Jack Reynolds,Richard Sebold
Publisher : Springer
Page : 229 pages
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Release : 2016-08-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781137516053

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Phenomenology and Science by Jack Reynolds,Richard Sebold Pdf

This book investigates the complex, sometimes fraught relationship between phenomenology and the natural sciences. The contributors attempt to subvert and complicate the divide that has historically tended to characterize the relationship between the two fields. Phenomenology has traditionally been understood as methodologically distinct from scientific practice, and thus removed from any claim that philosophy is strictly continuous with science. There is some substance to this thinking, which has dominated consideration of the relationship between phenomenology and science throughout the twentieth century. However, there are also emerging trends within both phenomenology and empirical science that complicate this too stark opposition, and call for more systematic consideration of the inter-relation between the two fields. These essays explore such issues, either by directly examining meta-philosophical and methodological matters, or by looking at particular topics that seem to require the resources of each, including imagination, cognition, temporality, affect, imagery, language, and perception.

Author : Emiliano Trizio
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2020-08-31
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781000206739

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Philosophy's Nature: Husserl's Phenomenology, Natural Science, and Metaphysics by Emiliano Trizio Pdf

This book offers a systematic interpretation of the relation between natural science and metaphysics in Husserl’s phenomenology. It shows that Husserl’s account of scientific knowledge is a radical alternative to established methods and frameworks in contemporary philosophy of science. The author’s interpretation of Husserl’s philosophy offers a critical reconstruction of the historical context from which his phenomenological approach developed, as well as new interpretations of key Husserlian concepts such as metaphysics, idealization, life-world, objectivism, crisis of the sciences, and historicity. The development of Husserl’s philosophical project is marked by the tension between natural science and transcendental phenomenology. While natural science provides a paradigmatic case of the way in which transcendental phenomenology, ontology, empirical science, and metaphysics can be articulated, it has also been the object of philosophical misunderstandings that have determined the current cultural and philosophical crisis. This book demonstrates the ways in which Husserl shows that our conceptions of philosophy and of nature are inseparable. Philosophy’s Nature will appeal to scholars and advanced students who are interested in Husserl and the relations between phenomenology, natural science, and metaphysics.

Author : Daniel Schmicking,Shaun Gallagher
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 676 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2009-12-16
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789048126460

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Handbook of Phenomenology and Cognitive Science by Daniel Schmicking,Shaun Gallagher Pdf

This volume explores the essential issues involved in bringing phenomenology together with the cognitive sciences, and provides some examples of research located at the intersection of these disciplines. The topics addressed here cover a lot of ground, including questions about naturalizing phenomenology, the precise methods of phenomenology and how they can be used in the empirical cognitive sciences, specific analyses of perception, attention, emotion, imagination, embodied movement, action and agency, representation and cognition, inters- jectivity, language and metaphor. In addition there are chapters that focus on empirical experiments involving psychophysics, perception, and neuro- and psychopathologies. The idea that phenomenology, understood as a philosophical approach taken by thinkers like Husserl, Heidegger, Sartre, Merleau-Ponty, and others, can offer a positive contribution to the cognitive sciences is a relatively recent idea. Prior to the 1990s, phenomenology was employed in a critique of the first wave of cognitivist and computational approaches to the mind (see Dreyfus 1972). What some consider a second wave in cognitive science, with emphasis on connectionism and neuros- ence, opened up possibilities for phenomenological intervention in a more positive way, resulting in proposals like neurophenomenology (Varela 1996). Thus, bra- imaging technologies can turn to phenomenological insights to guide experimen- tion (see, e. g. , Jack and Roepstorff 2003; Gallagher and Zahavi 2008).

Author : Massimiliano Tarozzi
Publisher : Zeta Books
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Phenomenology
ISBN : 9789731997452

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Phenomenology and Human Science Research Today by Massimiliano Tarozzi Pdf

Author : Marek Pokropski
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2021-11-29
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781000480733

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Mechanisms and Consciousness by Marek Pokropski Pdf

This book develops a new approach to naturalizing phenomenology. The author proposes to integrate phenomenology with the mechanistic framework that offers new methodological perspectives for studying complex mental phenomena such as consciousness. While mechanistic explanatory models are widely applied in cognitive science, their approach to describing subjective phenomena is limited. The author argues that phenomenology can fill this gap. He proposes two novel ways of integrating phenomenology and mechanism. First, he presents a new reading of phenomenological analyses as functional analyses. Such functional phenomenology delivers a functional sketch of a target system and provides constraints on the space of possible mechanisms. Second, he develops the neurophenomenological approach in the direction of dynamic modeling of experience. He shows that neurophenomenology can deliver dynamical constraints on mechanistic models and thus inform the search for an underlying mechanism. Mechanisms and Consciousness will be of interest to scholars and advanced students working in phenomenology, philosophy of mind, and the cognitive sciences.

Author : Edmund Husserl
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 436 pages
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Release : 1983-09-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9024728525

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Ideas Pertaining to a Pure Phenomenology and to a Phenomenological Philosophy by Edmund Husserl Pdf

the Logische Untersuchungen,l phenomenology has been conceived as a substratum of empirical psychology, as a sphere comprising "imma nental" descriptions of psychical mental processes, a sphere compris ing descriptions that - so the immanence in question is understood - are strictly confined within the bounds of internal experience. It 2 would seem that my protest against this conception has been oflittle avail; and the added explanations, which sharply pinpointed at least some chief points of difference, either have not been understood or have been heedlessly pushed aside. Thus the replies directed against my criticism of psychological method are also quite negative because they miss the straightforward sense of my presentation. My criticism of psychological method did not at all deny the value of modern psychology, did not at all disparage the experimental work done by eminent men. Rather it laid bare certain, in the literal sense, radical defects of method upon the removal of which, in my opinion, must depend an elevation of psychology to a higher scientific level and an extraordinary amplification ofits field of work. Later an occasion will be found to say a few words about the unnecessary defences of psychology against my supposed "attacks.

Author : Jack Reynolds
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2017-09-13
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781317409076

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Phenomenology, Naturalism and Science by Jack Reynolds Pdf

Arguing for the compatibility of phenomenology and naturalism, this book also refashions each. The opening chapters begin with a methodological focus, which seeks to curb the "over-bidding" characteristic of both traditional transcendental phenomenology and scientific naturalism. Having thus opened up the possibility that the twain might meet, it is in the detailed chapters on matters where scientific and phenomenological work overlap and sometimes conflict – on time, body, and others – that the book contests some of the standard ways of understanding the relationship between phenomenological philosophy and empirical science, and between phenomenology and naturalism. Without invoking a methodological move of quarantine, in which each is allocated to their proper and separate domains, the book outlines the significance of the first-person perspective characteristic of phenomenology – both epistemically and ontologically – while according due respect to the relevant empirical sciences. The book thus renews phenomenology and argues for its ongoing relevance and importance for the future of philosophy.

Author : Aron Gurwitsch
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780810105447

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Phenomenology and Theory of Science by Aron Gurwitsch Pdf

Essays on the relationship between perceptual experience and scientific thought—an introduction to the phenomenology of science.

Author : Joseph J. Kockelmans,Theodore J. Kisiel
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 548 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0810106132

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Phenomenology and the Natural Sciences by Joseph J. Kockelmans,Theodore J. Kisiel Pdf

Author : Stephen E. Palmer
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 844 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1999-04-14
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0262161834

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Vision Science by Stephen E. Palmer Pdf

This textbook on vision reflects the integrated computational approach of modern research scientists, combining psychological, computational and neuroscientific perspectives.

Author : Harald A. Wiltsche,Philipp Berghofer
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2020-06-23
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783030469733

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Phenomenological Approaches to Physics by Harald A. Wiltsche,Philipp Berghofer Pdf

This book offers fresh perspective on the role of phenomenology in the philosophy of physics which opens new avenues for discussion among physicists, "standard" philosophers of physics and philosophers with phenomenological leanings. Much has been written on the interrelations between philosophy and physics in the late 19th and early 20th century, and on the emergence of philosophy of science as an autonomous philosophical sub-discipline. This book is about the under-explored role of phenomenology in the development and the philosophical interpretation of 20th century physics. Part 1 examines questions about the origins and value of phenomenological approaches to physics. Does the work of classical phenomenologists such as Husserl, Merleau-Ponty or Heidegger contain elements of systematic value to both the practice and our philosophical understanding of physics? How did classical phenomenology influence “standard” philosophy of science in the Anglo-American and other traditions? Part 2 probes questions on the role of phenomenology in the philosophies of physics and science: - Can phenomenology help to solve “Wigner’s puzzle”, the problem of the "unreasonable effectiveness" of mathematics in describing, explaining and predicting empirical phenomena? - Does phenomenology allow better understanding of the principle of gauge invariance at the core of the standard model of contemporary particle physics? - Does the phenomenological notion of “Lifeworld” stand in opposition to the “scientific metaphysics” movement, or is there potential for dialogue? Part 3 examines the measurement problem. Is the solution outlined by Fritz London and Edmond Bauer merely a re-statement of von Neumann’s view, or should it be regarded as a distinctively phenomenological take on the measurement problem? Is phenomenology a serious contender in continuing discussions of foundational questions of quantum mechanics? Can other interpretational frameworks such as quantum Bayesianism benefit from implementing phenomenological notions such as constitution or horizonal intentionality?

Author : Maurice Natanson
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Education
ISBN : 0810106167

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Phenomenology and the Social Sciences by Maurice Natanson Pdf

The idea of this anthology is to explore the relationships between phenomenology and the social sciences.

Author : Jean Petitot
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 676 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0804736103

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Naturalizing Phenomenology by Jean Petitot Pdf

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.

Author : Jeff Kochan
Publisher : Open Book Publishers
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2017-12-18
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781783744138

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Science as Social Existence by Jeff Kochan Pdf

In this bold and original study, Jeff Kochan constructively combines the sociology of scientific knowledge (SSK) with Martin Heidegger’s early existential conception of science. Kochan shows convincingly that these apparently quite different approaches to science are, in fact, largely compatible, even mutually reinforcing. By combining Heidegger with SSK, Kochan argues, we can explicate, elaborate, and empirically ground Heidegger’s philosophy of science in a way that makes it more accessible and useful for social scientists and historians of science. Likewise, incorporating Heideggerian phenomenology into SSK renders SKK a more robust and attractive methodology for use by scholars in the interdisciplinary field of Science and Technology Studies (STS). Kochan’s ground-breaking reinterpretation of Heidegger also enables STS scholars to sustain a principled analytical focus on scientific subjectivity, without running afoul of the orthodox subject-object distinction they often reject. Science as Social Existence is the first book of its kind, unfurling its argument through a range of topics relevant to contemporary STS research. These include the epistemology and metaphysics of scientific practice, as well as the methods of explanation appropriate to social scientific and historical studies of science. Science as Social Existence puts concentrated emphasis on the compatibility of Heidegger’s existential conception of science with the historical sociology of scientific knowledge, pursuing this combination at both macro- and micro-historical levels. Beautifully written and accessible, Science as Social Existence puts new and powerful tools into the hands of sociologists and historians of science, cultural theorists of science, Heidegger scholars, and pluralist philosophers of science.

Author : Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1962
Category : Phenomenology
ISBN : UOM:39015004127364

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Phenomenology and Science in Contemporary European Thought by Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka Pdf