1st Edition

Conscious Thinking and Cognitive Phenomenology

Edited By Marta Jorba, Dermot Moran Copyright 2018
144 Pages
by Routledge

144 Pages
by Routledge

144 Pages
by Routledge

This book concerns the nature and character of conscious thinking from a philosophical perspective. One main aspect of conscious thinking addressed by the contributors is the phenomenal character involved in undergoing an episode of thinking or, in other words, the question of what it is like to think a certain thought, what has been called ‘cognitive phenomenology’. This contested... Read more

1. Conscious thinking and cognitive phenomenology: topics, views and future developments  2. The phenomenology of attitudes and the salience of rational role and determination  3. Thinking of oneself as the thinker: the concept of self and the phenomenology of intellection  4. Kant’s and Husserl’s agentive and proprietary accounts of cognitive phenomenology  5. The nature of unsymbolized thinking  6. Cognitive access and cognitive phenomenology: conceptual and empirical issues  7. Why Frege cases do involve cognitive phenomenology but only indirectly

Biography



Marta Jorba is Juan de la Cierva postdoctoral researcher at the University of the Basque Country, Spain. Her main research interests are in the philosophy of mind (with a particular focus on cognitive phenomenology, inner speech and the nature of conscious thinking more generally) and in feminist theory. Her work has been published in journals such as Noûs, Journal of Consciousness Studies, International Journal of Philosophical Studies, or Theoria.



Dermot Moran is Joseph Chair in Catholic Philosophy at Boston College and Professor at University College Dublin. He is president of the International Federation of Philosophical Societies. His recent publications include Husserl’s Crisis of the European Sciences and Transcendental Phenomenology: An Introduction (2012).