Author A. Ciaunica
Biography: Anna Ciaunica is a Postdoctoral FCT Research Fellow at the Mind, Language and Action Group, Institute of Philosophy, Porto and Visiting Research Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Senses, School of Advanced Study, London. Her main expertise is the role of embodiment in cognition and conscious experience. She is particularly interested in how our perceptions of our own body and the bodies of others are involved in structuring social cognition/interaction.
Ciaunica A. (2014) Putting Phenomenology to Work “Seriously”- Deep Brain Stimulation and Mental Disorders. Constructivist Foundations 10(1): 105–106. https://cepa.info/1174
Ciaunica A.
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2014)
Putting Phenomenology to Work “Seriously”- Deep Brain Stimulation and Mental Disorders.
Constructivist Foundations 10(1): 105–106.
Fulltext at https://cepa.info/1174
Open peer commentary on the article “The Uroboros of Consciousness: Between the Naturalisation of Phenomenology and the Phenomenologisation of Nature” by Sebastjan Vörös. Upshot: I present a concrete example of how phenomenology might “seriously” contribute to our understanding of certain aspects of the human mind, by drawing on recent research in psychopathology.
Ciaunica A. (2017) Modelling Subjectivity and Uncertainty in “Real World” Settings. Constructivist Foundations 12(2): 184–185. https://cepa.info/4073
Ciaunica A.
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2017)
Modelling Subjectivity and Uncertainty in “Real World” Settings.
Constructivist Foundations 12(2): 184–185.
Fulltext at https://cepa.info/4073
Open peer commentary on the article “Modeling Subjects’ Experience While Modeling the Experimental Design: A Mild-Neurophenomenology-Inspired Approach in the Piloting Phase” by Constanza Baquedano & Catalina Fabar. Upshot: The authors show in their pilots how open it is to participants not to obey the instructions during an experiment. Their findings leave us to choose between two options: either we (a) accept that subjective confounds are inevitable and stronger than we think, but in this case, why should we continue trying to measure subjective experience?; or (b) strive at designing better experiments in order to control for these fluctuations. I will argue for option (b) and propose an alternative model to go beyond the first- and third-person data gap, namely “predictive processing.”
Ciaunica A. (2019) Subjective Experiences are Relational: Implications for Trauma Research and Therapy. Constructivist Foundations 14(2): 221–224. https://cepa.info/5779
Ciaunica A.
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2019)
Subjective Experiences are Relational: Implications for Trauma Research and Therapy.
Constructivist Foundations 14(2): 221–224.
Fulltext at https://cepa.info/5779
Open peer commentary on the article “Applying the Neurophenomenological Approach to the Study of Trauma: Theory and Practice Yochai Ataria, Mooli Lahad & Omer Horovitz The Study of Trauma” by Yochai Ataria, Mooli Lahad & Omer Horovitz. Abstract: While I applaud Ataria and colleagues’ emphasis on the importance of “returning” to the phenomenology of disrupted subjective experiences, here I draw attention to the importance of second-person body-based dynamic engagements with others in bridging the gap between first- and third-person approaches in understanding traumatic experiences. To put it in a provocative slogan: the second person comes first. I will conclude by briefly outlining some implications for therapeutic interventions based on dynamic body-based engagements with others complementing the static, interview-based approaches.
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