Husserlian Neurophenomenology: Grounding the Anthropology of Experience in Reality
Humans February 17, 2024 DOI: 10.3390/humans4010006 (opens in new tab)
Study at a glance
AI-extracted from the abstract| Characteristics | Theoretical or philosophical paper Peer reviewed |
|---|---|
| Topics | Philosophy of mind |
| Citations | 1 |
| Key points | Proposes that combining Husserlian phenomenology with neuroscience can evidence essential structures of consciousness and augment traditional ethnographic research. |
Abstract
Anthropology has long resisted becoming a nomothetic science, thus repeatedly missing opportunities to build upon empirical theoretical constructs, choosing instead to back away into a kind of natural history of sociocultural differences. What is required are methods that focus the ethnographic gaze upon the essential structures of perception as well as sociocultural differences. The anthropology of experience and the senses is a recent movement that may be amenable to including a partnership between Husserlian phenomenology and neuroscience to build a framework for evidencing the existence of essential structures of consciousness, and the neurobiological processes that have evolved to present the world to consciousness as adaptively real. The author shows how the amalgamation of essences (sensory objects, relations, horizons, and associated intuitions) and the quest for neural correlates of consciousness can be combined to augment traditional ethnographic research, and thereby nullify the “it’s culture all the way down” bias of constructivism.
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Citations in the library
Cites 10
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- From autopoiesis to neurophenomenology: Francisco Varela's exploration of the biophysics of being. Biological research 2003
- The neuroscience of meditation: classification, phenomenology, correlates, and mechanisms. Progress in Brain Research 2019
- Continuity, Causation And Cyclicity: A Cultural Neurophenomenoloǵy Of Time-Consciousness Time and Mind 2008
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