Phenomenology/Neurophenomenology

The Landscape of Introspection

What Forms Could Introspective Systems Take?
François Kammerer

The Landscape of Introspection, first published as a special issue of the Journal of Consciousness Studies, offers an informed, contemporary, and challenging view of what introspection is – and could be.

Selfhood, Autism and Thought Insertion

Mihretu P. Guta

This book, a reprint of a special issue of the Journal of Consciousness Studies, highlights some excellent examples of the complex nature of first-person thoughts as they figure in linguistics, autism, thought insertion in schizophrenia, and the phenomenon of mental autonomy.

Before Consciousness

In Search of the Fundamentals of Mind
Zdravko Radman

This book aims to integrate the non-conscious as a constitutive dimension of the mind and also to outline how it is indispensable in virtually everything we do.

Insides and Outsides

Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Animate Nature
Maxine Sheets-Johnstone

Insides and Outsides brings together diverse aspects of animate nature, showing that scientific understandings of animate nature are — or can be — complementary to philosophical understandings.

Depression, Emotion and the Self

Philosophical and Interdisciplinary Perspectives
Matthew Ratcliffe

This volume addresses the question of what it is like to be depressed. Despite the vast amount of research that has been conducted into the causes and treatment of depression, the experience of depression remains poorly understood.

Looking In and Speaking Out

Introspection, Consciousness, Communication
Robin Wooffitt

The authors argue it is essential to examine the linguistic and communicative practices that are used in the production of introspective data, and thereby make an important contribution to debates about how we may study experience that are relevant to a wide range of disciplines.

The Implications of Embodiment

Cognition and Communication
Wolfgang Tschacher

This edited volume is scientifically based, but readable for a larger audience, covering the concept of "embodied cognition" and its implications from a transdisciplinary angle.

Ten Years' Viewing from Within: Further Debate

Claire Petitmengin

This special issue of the Journal of Consciousness Studies is the sequel to Ten Years of Viewing from Within, commemorating the tenth anniversary of the publication of The View from Within, where Francisco Varela in collaboration with Jonathan Shear designed the foundations of a research program on lived experience.

JCS Symposium on Describing Inner Experience

A Debate on Descriptive Experience Sampling
Josh Weisberg

A special issue of the Journal of Consciousness Studies debating the merits of Russell Hurlburt's technique of Descriptive Experience Sampling (DES) as a means of accessing inner experience.

Who Was Mrs Willett?

Landscapes and Dynamics of Mind
Chris Nunn

Here is an account of mentality and human experience, written for a multi-disciplinary readership. The focus is on how mind, consciousness and selves inter-relate, extending into exploration of ideas about the nature of awareness and a search for relevant evidence.

The Victorian's Guide to Consciousness

Essays Marking the Centenary of William James
Allan Combs

A special issue of the Journal of Consciousness Studies to mark the centenary of the death of the pioneer psychologist William James.

Spiritual Crisis

Varieties and Perspectives of a Transpersonal Phenomenon
Fransje Waard

In this book people speak about inner experiences in which they perceived themselves and the world so differently that they thought they were going mad. Experiences of existential voids, heights and depths, freezing wastes and silences, of pure energy, love and fear, oneness and chaos.

Mindworlds

A Decade of Consciousness Studies
J. Andrew Ross

Understanding consciousness is one of the central scientific challenges of our time. This book presents Andy Ross's recent work and discusses a range of perspectives on the core issues.

Ten Years of Viewing from Within

The Legacy of Francisco Varela
Claire Petitmengin

Ten years on from The View From Within, Claire Petitmengin has organized a collection of essays that examine and refine the research program on first-person methods defined in The View from Within, with contributions based on empirical research.

Narrative and Folk Psychology

Daniel D. Hutto

This volume, which is a special issue of the Journal of Consciousness Studies, brings together new work by scholars from a range of disciplines whose aim is to clarify, develop and challenge the claim that folk psychology may be importantly - perhaps even constitutively - related to narrative practices.

The corporeal turn

An interdisciplinary reader
Maxine Sheets-Johnstone

The purpose of The Corporeal Turn is to document in a single text the impressive array of investigations possible with respect to the body and bodily life, and to show that, whatever the specific topic being examined, it is a matter of fathoming and elucidating complex and subtle structures of animate meaning.

Luhmann Applied

Soren Brier

This book brings together international experts on the application of Niklas Luhmann's theory of society as autopoietic communication.

Mind, the Body and the World

Psychology After Cognitivism?
Tony Anderson

The roots of cognitivism lie deep in the history of Western thought, and to develop a genuinely post-cognitivist psychology, this investigation goes back to presuppositions descended from Platonic/Cartesian assumptions and beliefs about the nature of thought.

Interplay Between Consciousness and Concepts

Rocco J. Gennaro

Questions on the nature of concepts in philosophy, psychology, and cognitive science, such as 'What are concepts?' and ‘What is it to possess a concept?’ are notoriously difficult to answer. These questions are tackled here by Simon Baron-Cohen, Peter Carruthers, and a distinguished cast of scientists and philosophers.

Making God

A New Materialist Theory of the Person
Ann Long

Developments in psychology mean that our view of persons is unlike the great teachers of the Axial Age -- the Buddha, Confucius, Zoroaster, etc. -- and therefore the God they made can no longer serve as ours. We have to make our own. So argues Ann Long in this fascinating exploration of personhood, religion and moral value.

Emotion Experience

Giovanna Colombetti

Emotion experience has failed to date to gain a central place in the study of consciousness. This special issue of the Journal of Consciousness Studies presents the most recent views on the matter, with discussions of several aspects of emotion experience.

Hidden Resources

Classical Perspectives on Subjectivity
Dan Zahavi

To what extent can the current discussion of consciousness in mainstream cognitive science and analytical philosophy of mind profit from insights drawn from the investigations of subjectivity found in the Kantian and post-Kantian tradition (Kant, Schleiermacher, Kierkegaard) as well as in the phenomenological and hermeneutical tradition?

Trusting the Subject?

Volume Two
Anthony Jack

This work is designed to encourage cognitive scientists to take more account of the subject's unique perspective.

Science, Consciousness and Ultimate Reality

David Lorimer

The Science, Consciousness and Ultimate Reality project was set up with the support of the John Templeton Foundation in order to examine critical issues at the interface between science, religion and the field of 'consciousness studies'.

Francisco J. Varela 1946-2001

Soren Brier

A volume dedicated to the life and work of Francisco Varela, this is an issue of the journal "Cybernetics and Human Knowing".

Trusting the Subject?

Volume One
Anthony Jack

This work is designed to encourage cognitive scientists to take more account of the subject's unique perspective.

Between Ourselves

Second Person Issues in the Study of Consciousness
Evan Thompson

The first volume in this series (The View from Within) was a study of first-person approaches to the study of consciousness. Second-person 'I–You' relations are central to human life yet have been neglected in consciousness research. This book puts that right.

Volitional Brain

Towards a Neuroscience of Freewill
Benjamin Libet

The puzzling status of volition is explored in this issue by a distinguished body of scientists and philosophers.

Models of the Self

Shaun Gallagher

A comprehensive reader on the problem of the self as seen from the perspectives of philosophy, development psychology, robotics, cognitive neuroscience, psychopathology, semiotics, phenomenology and contemplative studies, all focused on a keynote paper.

Reclaiming Cognition

The Primacy of Action, Intention and Emotion
Rafael Nunez

Traditional cognitive science is Cartesian in the sense that it takes as fundamental the distinction between the mental and the physical, the mind and the world. The authors depart radically from this model.

View from Within

First-person Approaches to the Study of Consciousness
Francisco J Varela

Drawing on a wide range of approaches — from phenomenology to meditation — THE VIEW FROM WITHIN examines the possibility of a disciplined approach to the study of subjective states. The focus is on the practical issues involved.

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