This volume explores the essential issues involved in bringing phenomenology together with the cognitive sciences, and provides some examples of research located at the intersection of these disciplines. The topics addressed here cover a lot of ground, including questions about naturalizing phenomenology, the precise methods of phenomenology and how they can be used in the empirical cognitive sciences, specific analyses of perception, attention, emotion, imagination, embodied movement, action and agency, representation and cognition, inters- jectivity, language and metaphor. In addition there are chapters that focus on empirical experiments involving psychophysics, perception, and neuro- and psychopathologies. The idea that phenomenology, understood as a philosophical approach taken by thinkers like Husserl, Heidegger, Sartre, Merleau-Ponty, and others, can offer a positive contribution to the cognitive sciences is a relatively recent idea. Prior to the 1990s, phenomenology was employed in a critique of the first wave of cognitivist and computational approaches to the mind (see Dreyfus 1972). What some consider a second wave in cognitive science, with emphasis on connectionism and neuros- ence, opened up possibilities for phenomenological intervention in a more positive way, resulting in proposals like neurophenomenology (Varela 1996). Thus, bra- imaging technologies can turn to phenomenological insights to guide experimen- tion (see, e. g., Jack and Roepstorff 2003; Gallagher and Zahavi 2008).

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Introduction, D. Schmicking, S. Gallagher; I. Phenomenology and experimental cognitive science. 1. Phenomenology and the problem of naturalization, D. Zahavi 2. Phenomenology and non-reductionistic cognitive science, S. Gallagher 3. A toolbox of phenomenological methods, D. Schmicking 4. A formal language of consciousness, E. Marbach II: Consciousness, attention, and emotion. 5. Consciousness, M. Rowlands 6. Attention in context, P.S. Arvidson 7. The phenomenology and neurobiology of moods and emotions, M. Ratcliffe 8. Phenomenology, imagination, and interdisciplinary research, J. Jansen 9. The function of weak phantasy in perception and thinking, D. Lohmar III: Embodiment. 10. Myself with no body? Body, bodily-consciousness and self-consciousness, D. Legrand 11. A Husserlian, Neurophenomenologic Approach to Embodiment, J-L. Petit 12. Body and Movement: Basic Dynamic Principles, M. Sheets-Johnstone 13. Empirical and phenomenological studies of embodied cognition, D. Morris IV: Intersubjectivity. 14. The Problem of Other Minds, S. Overgaard.15. Mutual gaze and intersubjectivity, B. Stawarska 16. Knowing other people¿s mental states as if they were one¿s own, F. de Vignemon 17. Intersubjectivity, cognition, and language, N. Praetorius V: Perception, action and enactive phenomenology. 18. The problem of representation, M. Wheeler 19. Action and agency, T. Grünbaum 20. Meaning, World and the Second Person, J. Botero VI: Language and meaning. 21. Husserl and language, P. Bundgaard 22. Metaphor and cognition, M.S. Johnson 23. Phenomenology and cognitivelinguistics, J. Zlatov VII: Applications and experiments. 24. The role of phenomenology in psychophysics, S. Horst 25. A neuro-phenomenological study of epileptic seizure anticipation, C. Petitmengin 26. How unconscious is subliminal perception, M. Overgaard 27. IWa¿''"the man who lost his body", D. McNeill VIII: Pathologies. 28. Phenomenology and psychopathology, T. Fuchs. 29. Delusional atmosphere and delusional belief, M. Ratcliffe 30. Autoscopy: Disrupted Self in Neuropsychiatric Disorders and Anomalous Conscious States, A. Mishara 31.Phenomenology as Description and as Explanation: The Case of Schizophrenia, L. Sass 32. Agency with impairments of movement, J. Cole Index.