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Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour

ISSN 0021-8308

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Why Cognitive Science Needs Phenomenology: Rethinking the Epistemology of Consciousness Through Intuitive Dualism

Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour October 30, 2025 Rebecca Peng, Amit Hagar

ABSTRACT Cognitive science needs phenomenology, not despite, but because of the epistemic challenges posed by consciousness. This article argues that the pervasive presence of intuitive dualism, the empirical cognitive tendency to distinguish the mental from physical, is a widespread and entrenched feature of human experience. Drawing on work in developmental psychology and cognitive...

Adaptive Collective Memory: Bartlett, Enactivism and Group Identity

Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour May 9, 2025 Daniel Gyollai

It has been recently proposed that memory studies should move beyond focusing on explicit, identity‐creating and backward‐looking forms of collective memory, such as commemorative remembering, and pay more attention to implicit memory processes within social groups. This article demonstrates that, in taking this advice, one would throw the baby out with the bathwater. Revisiting Bartlett's...