New Book: NATURALIZING PHENOMENOLOGY

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                   NATURALIZING PHENOMENOLOGY

               ISSUES IN CONTEMPORARY PHENOMENOLOGY
                               AND
                        COGNITIVE SCIENCE

                             Edited by
Jean Petitot, Francisco J. Varela, Bernard Pachoud, Jean-Michel Roy

                     Stanford  University Press

	This work aims to shed a new light on the relations between
Husserlian phenomenology and present-day efforts towards a scientific theory
of cognition. Its primary goal is not to present a new interpretation of
Husserl's writings. Rather, the contributors consider how
Husserlian phenomenology might contribute to specific contemporary
theories, either by complementing or by questioning them. What clearly
emerges is that Husserlian phenomenology cannot become instrumental to
cognitive science without undergoing a substantial transformation.
Therefore, the book's central concern is not only the progress of
contemporary theories of cognition but also the reorientation of Husserlian
phenomenology.
	Because a single volume could not encompass the numerous facets
of this wide-ranging interrogation, the contributors focus on the issue of
naturalization.This perspective is far-reaching enough to allow for the
coverage of a great variety of topics, ranging from the general structures
of intentionality, the nature of temporality and perception, the
mathematical modeling of their phenomenological descriptions, to the
founding epistemological and ontological principles of cognitive science
	"Naturalizing Phenomenology" is thus a collective reflection on the
possibility of bringing a naturalized Husserlian phenomenology to bear on a
scientific theory of cognition that fills the explanatory gap between the
phenomenological mind and brain.

                               CONTENTS

1. 	Beyond the Gap: An Introduction to Naturalizing Phenomenology
	Jean-Michel Roy, Jean Petitot, Bernard Pachoud, and Francisco J. Varela

                               PART ONE:
              INTENTIONALITY, MOVEMENT, AND TEMPORALITY

                            INTENTIONALITY

2. 	Intentionality Naturalized?
	David Woodruff Smith

3.	Saving Intentional Phenomena: Intentionality, Representation, and
          Symbol
	Jean-Michel Roy

4.	Leibhaftigkeit and Representational Theories of Perception
	Elisabeth Pacherie

                                MOVEMENT

5.	Perceptual Completion: A Case Study in Phenomenology and Cognitive
         Science
	Evan Thompson, Alva Noe, and Luiz Pessoa

6.	The Teleological Dimension of Perceptual and Motor Intentionality
	Bernard Pachoud

7. 	Constitution by Movement: Husserl in Light of Recent
          Neurobiological Findings
	Jean-Luc Petit

                                TEMPORALITY

8. 	Wooden Iron? Husserlian Phenomenology Meets Cognitive Science
	Tim Van Gelder

9.	The Specious Present: A Neurophenomenology of Time Consciousness
	Francisco J. Varela

                  PART TWO: MATHEMATICS IN PHENOMENOLOGY

                              FORMAL MODELS

1O. 	Truth and the Visual Field
	Barry Smith

11. 	Morphological Eidetics for a Phenomenology of Perception
	Jean Petitot

12. 	Formal Structures in the Phenomenology of Motion
	Roberto Casati

                         PHENOMENOLOGY AND MATHEMATICS

13. 	Gödel and Husserl
	Dagfinn Føllesdal

14. 	The Mathematical Continuum: From Intuition to Logic
	Giuseppe Longo

             PART THREE: THE NATURE AND LIMITS OF NATURALIZATION

                  PHILOSOPHICAL STRATEGIES OF NATURALIZATION

15. 	Naturalizing Phenomenology? Dretske on Qualia
	Ronald Mcintyre

16. 	The Immediately Given as Ground and Background
	Juan-José Botero

17. 	When Transcendental Genesis Encounters the Naturalization Project
	Natalie Depraz

                        SKEPTICAL ATTITUDES

18.	Sense and Continuum in Husserl
	Jean-Michel Salanskis

19. 	Cognitive Psychology and the Transcendental Theory of Knowledge
	Maria Villela-Petit

20. 	The Movement of the Living as the Originary Foundation of
            Perceptual Intentionality
	Renaud Barbaras

                        HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES

21.	Philosophy and Cognition: Historical Roots
	Jean-Pierre Dupuy

Writing Science series edited by Timothy Lenoir and Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht
7 x 10, 648 pp.
ISBN 0-8047-3322-8 (cloth)
ISBN 0-8047-3610-3 (pbk)

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