The Phenomenological Mind - Paperback

by Shaun Gallagher (Author), Dan Zahavi (Author)

The Phenomenological Mind, Third Edition introduces fundamental questions about the mind from the perspective of phenomenology. One of the outstanding books in the field, now translated into eight languages, this highly regarded exploration of phenomenology from a topic-driven standpoint examines the following key questions and issues:

• what is phenomenology?
• phenomenology and the cognitive sciences
• consciousness and self-consciousness
• time and consciousness
• intentionality and perception
• the embodied mind
• action
• knowledge of other minds
• situated and extended minds
• phenomenology and personal identity.

This third edition has been revised and updated throughout. The chapter on phenomenological methodologies has been significantly expanded to cover qualitative research, and there are new sections discussing important, recent research on topics such as critical phenomenology, imagination, social cognition, race and gender, collective intentionality, and selfhood.

Also included are helpful features, such as chapter summaries, guides to further reading, and boxed explanations of specialized topics, making The Phenomenological Mind, Third Edition an ideal introduction to key concepts in phenomenology, cognitive science, and philosophy of mind.

Author Biography

Shaun Gallagher holds the Lillian and Morrie Moss Chair of Excellence in Philosophy at the University of Memphis, USA, and Professorial Fellow at the University of Wollongong in Australia. He is the author of Action and Interaction (2020), Enactivist Interventions (2017), Phenomenology (2012), and How the Body Shapes the Mind (2005); the editor of The Oxford Handbook of the Self (2011); and co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of 4E Cognition (2019).

They jointly edit the journal Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences.