Key word "structure of experience"
Gallagher S. (2017) The Past, Present and Future of Time-Consciousness: From Husserl to Varela and Beyond. Constructivist Foundations 13(1): 91–97. https://cepa.info/4404
Gallagher S.
(
2017)
The Past, Present and Future of Time-Consciousness: From Husserl to Varela and Beyond.
Constructivist Foundations 13(1): 91–97.
Fulltext at https://cepa.info/4404
Context: In developing an enactivist phenomenology the analysis of time-consciousness needs to be pushed toward a fully enactivist account. Problem: Varela proposed a neurophenomenology of time-consciousness. I attempt to push this analysis towards a more complete enactivist phenomenology of time-consciousness. Method: I review Varela’s account of time-consciousness, which brings Husserl’s phenomenological analysis of the intrinsic temporal structure of experience into contact with contemporary neuroscience and dynamical systems theory, and pushes it towards a more enactivist conception of consciousness. I argue that Varela’s analysis motivates a closer examination of the phenomenological aspects of the intrinsic temporal structure of experience, understanding it in terms of an action-oriented embodied phenomenology in its most basic manifestation. Results: This fully enactivist phenomenology of time-consciousness continues the analysis initiated by Varela and remains consistent with but also goes beyond Husserl’s later writings on time-consciousness. Implications: This analysis shows that the enactive character of intentionality in general, goes all the way down; it is embedded in the micro-structure of time-consciousness, and this has implications for understanding perception and action. Constructivist content: This account is consistent with Varela’s constructivist approach to cognition.
Petitmengin C. & Bitbol M. (2009) The validity of first-person descriptions as authenticity and coherence. In: Petitmengin C. (ed.) Ten years of viewing from within: The legacy of Francisco Varela.. Imprint Academic, Exeter: 363–404. https://cepa.info/2377
Petitmengin C. & Bitbol M.
(
2009)
The validity of first-person descriptions as authenticity and coherence.
In: Petitmengin C. (ed.) Ten years of viewing from within: The legacy of Francisco Varela. Imprint Academic, Exeter: 363–404.
Fulltext at https://cepa.info/2377
This article is devoted to the description of the experience associated with listening to a sound. In the first part, we describe the method we used to gather descriptions of auditory experience and to analyse these descriptions. This work of explicitation and analysis has enabled us to identify a threefold generic structure of this experience, depending on whether the attention of the subject is directed towards (1) the event which is at the source of the sound, (2) the sound in itself, considered independently from its source, (3) the felt sound. In the second part of the article, we describe this structure. The third part is devoted to a discussion of these results and the paths they open up in various fields of theoretical and applied research.
Pierce B. (2017) Unforeseen Influences on the Classification of Categories Reflecting the Structure of Experience. Constructivist Foundations 12(2): 206–208. https://cepa.info/4078
Pierce B.
(
2017)
Unforeseen Influences on the Classification of Categories Reflecting the Structure of Experience.
Constructivist Foundations 12(2): 206–208.
Fulltext at https://cepa.info/4078
Open peer commentary on the article “A First-Person Analysis Using Third Person-Data as a Generative Method: A Case Study of Surprise in Depression” by Natalie Depraz, Maria Gyemant & Thomas Desmidt. Upshot: The generative method outlined in the target article produces some interesting results, demonstrating the value of cardio-phenomenology. The proposed division of categories reflecting the structure of experience into sub-categories suggests that prior theoretical commitments may have influenced the process of analysis in ways the authors might not have foreseen or intended. This commentary discusses potential areas for future work, proposing that some modifications to the methodology might lessen possibly unforeseen influences on the central process of classification.
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