The phenomenologically manifest

Author: Kriegel, Uriah

Source: Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences, Volume 6, Numbers 1-2, March 2007 , pp. 115-136(22)

Publisher: Springer

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Abstract:

Disputes about what is phenomenologically manifest in conscious experience have a way of leading to deadlocks with remarkable immediacy. Disputants reach the foot-stomping stage of the dialectic more or less right after declaring their discordant views. It is this fact, I believe, that leads some to heterophenomenology and the like attempts to found Consciousness Studies on purely third-person grounds. In this paper, I explore the other possible reaction to this fact, namely, the articulation of methods for addressing phenomenological disputes. I suggest two viable methods, of complementary value, which I call “the method of contrast” and “the method of knowability.”

Keywords: consciousness; phenomenology; heterophenomenology; the phenomenologically manifest

Document Type: Research article

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11097-006-9029-8

Affiliations: 1: Email: theuriah@gmail.com

Publication date: 2007-03-01