This comprehensive new book introduces the core history ofphenomenology and assesses its relevance to contemporarypsychology, philosophy of mind, and cognitive science. Fromcritiques of artificial intelligence research programs to ongoingwork on embodiment and enactivism, the authors trace howphenomenology has produced a valuable framework for analyzingcognition and perception, whose impact on contemporarypsychological and scientific research, and philosophical debatescontinues to grow. The first part of An Introduction to Phenomenology is anextended overview of the history and development of phenomenology,looking at its key thinkers, focusing particularly on Husserl,Heidegger and Merleau–Ponty, as well as its cultural andintellectual precursors. In the second half Chemero and Käuferturn their attention to the contemporary interpretations and usesof phenomenology in cognitive science, showing that phenomenologyis a living source of inspiration in contemporary interdisciplinarystudies of the mind. Käufer and Chemero have written a clear, jargon–freeaccount of phenomenology, providing abundant examples and anecdotesto illustrate and to entertain. This book is an ideal introductionto phenomenology and cognitive science for the uninitiated, as wellas for philosophy and psychology students keen to deepen theirknowledge. INDICE: . Introduction. Chapter 1. Kant and Wundt: 18th and 19th CenturyBackground. Chapter 2. Edmund Husserl and Transcendental Phenomenology. Chapter 3. Martin Heidegger and Existential Phenomenology. Chapter 4. Gestalt Psychology. Chapter 5. Maurice Merleau–Ponty: The Body and Perception. Chapter 6. Jean–Paul Sartre: Phenomenologicalexistentialism. Chapter 7. James J. Gibson and Ecological Psychology. Chapter 8. Hubert Dreyfus and the Phenomenological Critique ofCognitivism. Chapter 9. Phenomenological Cognitive Science. Bibliography .
- ISBN: 978-0-7456-5147-7
- Editorial: Polity Press
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 224
- Fecha Publicación: 24/04/2015
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés