Phenomenology: An Introduction

Acknowledgements List of Figures Introduction 1 Kant: Eighteenth and Nineteenth-Century Background 1.1 Kant's critical philosophy 1.2 Intuitions and concepts 1.3 The transcendental deduction 1.4 Kantian themes in phenomenology 2 The Rise of Experimental Psychology 2.1 Wilhelm Wundt and the rise of scientific psychology 2.2 William James and functionalism 2.3 The structuralism-functionalism debate 3 Edmund Husserl and Transcendental Phenomenology 3.1 Transcendental phenomenology 3.2 Brentano 3.3 Between logic and psychology 3.4 Ideas 3.5 The body 3.6 Phenomenology of time consciousness 4 Martin Heidegger and Existential Phenomenology 4.1 The intelligibility of the everyday world 4.2 Descartes and occurrentness 4.3 Being-in-the-world 4.4 Being-with others and the anyone 4.5 The existential conception of the self 4.6 Death, guilt, and authenticity 5 Gestalt Psychology 5.1 Gestalt criticisms of atomistic psychology 5.2 Perception and the environment 5.3 Influence of Gestalt psychology 6 Aron Gurwitsch: Merging Gestalt Psychology and Phenomenology 6.1 Phenomenology of Thematics and of the Pure Ego 6.2 Others and the Social World 7 Jean-Paul Sartre: Phenomenological Existentialism 7.1 Transcendence of the Ego 7.2 The Imagination and The Imaginary 7.3 Being and Nothingness 8 Maurice Merleau-Ponty: The Body and Perception 8.1 Phenomenology of Perception 8.2 Phenomenology, psychology, and the phenomenal field 8.3 The lived body 8.4 Perceptual constancy and natural objects 9 Critical Phenomenology 9.1 The path not taken 9.2 Phenomenology and Gender 9.3 Phenomenology and Race 10 James J. Gibson and Ecological Psychology 10.1 Gibson's early work: Two examples 10.2 The ecological approach 10.3 Ecological ontology 10.4 Affordances and invitations 11 Hubert Dreyfus and the Phenomenological Critique of Cognitivism 11.1 The cognitive revolution and cognitive science 11.2 "Alchemy and artificial intelligence" 11.3 What Computers Can't Do 11.4 Heideggerian artificial intelligence 12 Enactivism and the Embodied Mind 12.1 Embodied, Embedded, Extended, Enactive 12.2 The Original Enactivism 12.3 Other Enactivisms: The sensorimotor approach and radical enactivism 12.4 Enactivism as a Philosophy of Nature 13 Phenomenological Cognitive Science 13.1 The frame problem 13.2 Radical embodied cognitive science 13.3 Dynamical systems theory 13.4 Heideggerian cognitive science 13.5 The future of scientific phenomenology References Index