Synopses & Reviews
Philosophical work on the mind flowed in two streams through the 20th century: phenomenology and analytic philosophy. This volume aims to bring them together again, by demonstrating how work in phenomenology may lead to significant progress on problems central to current analytic research, and how analytical philosophy of mind may shed light on phenomenological concerns. Leading figures from both traditions contribute specially written essays on such central topics as consciousness, intentionality, perception, action, self-knowledge, temporal awareness, and mental content. Phenomenology and Philosophy of Mind demonstrates that these different approaches to the mind should not stand in opposition to each other, but can be mutually illuminating.
Review
Smith (Univ. of California, Irvine) and Thomasson (Univ. of Miami) offer in this anthology the latest installment in the history of attempts at bridge-building between the traditions of Continental phenomenology and Anglo-American philosophy of mind. The present volume brings together diverse essays by a team of international philosophers in a solicitous gesture of self-introduction directed toward analytic philosophers of mind. Following an excellent historical introduction, the volume's essays divide into sections addressing the place of phenomenology in philosophy of mind; self-awareness and he self-knowledge; intentionality; consciousness; and place of perception, sensation, and action. --Choice
Review
Smith (Univ. of California, Irvine) and Thomasson (Univ. of Miami) offer in this anthology the latest installment in the history of attempts at bridge-building between the traditions of Continental phenomenology and Anglo-American philosophy of mind. The present volume brings together diverse essays by a team of international philosophers in a solicitous gesture of self-introduction directed toward analytic philosophers of mind. Following an excellent historical introduction, the volume's essays divide into sections addressing the place of phenomenology in philosophy of mind; self-awareness and he self-knowledge; intentionality; consciousness; and place of perception, sensation, and action. --Choice
Table of Contents
I. The Place of Phenomenology in Philosophy of Mind 1. Functionalism and Logical Analysis, Paul Livingston
2. Intentionality and Experience: Terminological Preliminaries, Galen Strawson
3. The Inescapability of Phenomenology, Taylor Carman
II: Self-Awareness and Self-Knowledge
4. Consciousness with Reflexive Content, David Woodruff Smith
5. First-Person Knowledge in Phenomenology, Amie L. Thomasson
6. Phenomenology and Cortical Microstimulation, John Bickle and Ralph Ellis
III. Intentionality
7. The Immanence Theory of Intentionality, Johannes L. Brandl
8. Consciousness of Abstract Objects, Richard Tieszen
IV. Unities of Consciousness
9. Husserl and the Logic of Consciousness, Wayne M. Martin
10. Temporal Awareness, Sean Dorrance Kelly
11. Collective Consciousness, Kay Mathieson
V. Perception, Sensation, and Action
12. Perceptual Saliences, Clothilde Calabi
13. Attention and Sensorimotor Intentionality, Charles Siewert
14. The Phenomenology of Bodily Awareness, Jose Luis Bermudez