COGNITIVE
SCIENCE
AND
CONTINENTAL PHILOSOPHY
John Sutton, Philosophy Department,
Macquarie University.
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Sept 2004: this page will soon get the overhaul it needs! Let me
know your suggestions please.
This is just a brief introductory set of resources. Do please email me with suggestions.
If you're interested in this area, you may also find some resources on
Dynamicist
cognitive science useful.
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NEW:
Phenomenology
and Cognitive Science - online resources and bibliography by Eugenio
Borrelli.
New Journal: Phenomenology
and the Cognitive Sciences edited by Shaun Gallagher & Natalie Depraz.
Online papers
Shaun Gallagher's
work bridges Anglophone and continental traditions, and integrates philosophical
with (cognitive) scientific
concerns neatly. You can download some of his own papers;
or use
his categorised bibliography on self &
personal identity. Most relevant here
is
Gallagher's site on phenomenology & the
cognitive sciences.
Shaun Gallagher, (preprint of) 'Mutual Enlightenment:
Recent Phenomenology in Cognitive Science'
(published version in Journal
of Consciousness Studies 4, No. 3 (1997), 195-214)
Gallagher, Phenomenological
and experimental research on embodied experience (2000)
Ronald Lemmen, Non-Cartesian Cognitive Science website
Mark Wrathall and Sean Kelly, 'Existential
Phenomenology and Cognitive Science'
and
Hubert L. Dreyfus, 'The
Current Relevance of Merleau-Ponty's Phenomenology',
both from The Electronic Journal
of Analytic Philosophy, 4 (Spring 1996)
[part of a special issue on
Existential
Phenomenology and Cognitive Science]
This Dreyfus paper is closely related to his 'Merleau-Ponty's Critique
of Mental Representation:
The Relevance of Phenomenology
to Scientific Explanation' (1998)
Francisco
Varela's Home Page
'Le
cerveau n'est pas un ordinateur' La Recherche, 308, 1998, p.109-112
- Entretien avec
Francisco Varela par Herve Kempf
Varela, 'Neurophenomenology:
a methodological remedy for the hard problem'
Varela and N.Depraz, 'At the source of time:
valence and the constitutional dynamics of affect',
in Ipseity and Alterity, Arob@se:
An electronic journal 4 (2000) [requires Adobe Acrobat]
N. Depraz, F. Varela, P. Vermersch, 'The
Gesture of Awareness' [requires Adobe Acrobat]
Evan Thompson, HUMAN CONSCIOUSNESS:
FROM INTERSUBJECTIVITY TO INTERBEING
- on enactive cognitive science and phenomenology.
David F Wolf II, 'Why Granny Should
Have Read French Philosophers: The Phenomenology of Fodor
or the Modularity
of Merleau-Ponty', from the 20th World Congress of Philosophy, Boston
1998.
Kip Canfield, THE
MICROSTRUCTURE OF LOGOCENTRISM: sign models in Derrida and Smolensky
(Postmodern Culture 3 n.3 (May,
1993))
And some Print Sources
F Varela, E Thompson, E Rosch, The Embodied Mind: cognitive science
and human experience
(MIT, 1992). For cultural commentary
on Varela & Maturana's earlier work on 'autopoiesis', see N.
Katherine Hayles, How
We Became Posthuman (Chicago UP, 1999), ch.6 'The Second Wave of
Cybernetics'.
And here is a very brief review
of the book and one by Gerard Edelman, by Dan Dennett.
Naturalizing Phenomenology: issues in contemporary phenomenology
and cognitive science
(eds. J. Petitot, F.J. Varela, B. Pachoud,
J-M. Roy), Stanford U.P., 1999.
Heidegger, Coping, and Cognitive Science: essays in honor of Hubert
L. Dreyfus, vol.2
(eds.) Mark Wrathall & Jeff Malpas
(MIT, 2000).
Donald Borrett; Sean Kelly; Hon Kwan, 'Phenomenology, dynamical
neural networks and brain function',
Philosophical Psychology
13 (2000), with multiple commentaries, 213-266
Paul Cilliers, Complexity and Postmodernism (Routledge, 1998)
Jean-Pierre Dupuy, The Mechanization of the Mind (Princeton
U.P., 2000)
Ian Hacking, 'Canguilhem amid the Cyborgs', Economy and Society 27 (1998),
202-216
John Johnston, 'Machinic Vision', Critical Inquiry 26 (1999), 27-48
[Deleuze, robotics, distributed cognition]
Denis McManus, 'The Rediscovery of Heidegger's Worldly Subject by Analytic
Philosophy of Science',
The Monist 82 (2), 1999,
324-346
Joseph Ulric Neisser, 'On the Use and Abuse of Dasein in Cognitive
Science, The Monist 82 (2), 1999, 347-361
Stephanie Rocknak, 'A Tradition Ignored', Brain and Mind 2 (2001),
343-358
Mike Wheeler, 'Escaping from the Cartesian Mind-set: Heidegger and Artificial
Life', in F Moran et al (eds),
Advances in Artificial Life (Springer-Verlag,
1995), 65-76
Michael Wheeler, ‘From Robots to Rothko: the bringing forth of worlds’,
in Margaret Boden (ed), The
Philosophy of Artificial
Life (OUP, 1996), pp.209-236 (anti-representationalist Heideggerian
cognitive science)
Elizabeth Wilson, Neural Geographies: feminism and the microstructure
of cognition
(Routledge, 1998), chapters
4 and 5 (reading connectionism through Freud, Derrida, and feminist theory)
Andy Clark, ‘Embodiment and the Philosophy of Mind’, in A. O’Hear
(ed.), Current Issues in
Philosophy of Mind (Cambridge
U.P., 1998), 35-51
Andy Clark, 'Embodied, Situated, Embedded Cognition', in Bechtel and Graham
(eds), A Companion
to Cognitive Science (Blackwell,
1998)
John Sutton
Philosophy Department, Macquarie University.
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