Husserlian Phenomenology

Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: The Basic Idea and Other Preliminaries.- Chapter 3: The Formalism.- Section 3.1: The Dynamical Systems Framework.- Section 3.2: Expectation Rule.- Section 3.3: Expected Visual Continuations and Trail Sets.- Section 3.4: Learning Rule.- Chapter 4: Textual Analysis.- Chapter 5: Intentionality.- Section 5.1: Intentionality in General.- Section 5.2: The Dynamics of Intentionality.- Chapter 6: Constitutive Phenomenology.- Section 6.1: Constitution in General.- Section 6.2: Constitution as Construction.- Section 6.3: Constitutive Phenomenology as a Research Program.- Chapter 7: Horizon Theory.- Section 7.1: Three senses of 'Horizon'.- Section 7.2: Horizon Dynamics.- Chapter 8: Motivation.- Section 8.1: Motivated Possibilities.- Section 8.2: Examples.- Section 8.3: Learning and Motivation.- Chapter 9: Genetic Phenomenology.- Chapter 10: Conclusion.- Section 10.1: The Unifying Interpretation.- Section 10.2: Other Constitutive Domains.- Section 10.3: OtherConcepts in Husserlian phenomenology.- Section 10.4: Naturalized Phenomenology.- Section: 10.5 Other Applications.- Appendix: Search Method.- References

Jeff Yoshmi is an Associate Professor of philosophy and cognitive science at UC Merced. In 2004 he joined the Merced campus (which opened to undergraduates in 2005) as a founding faculty member, and subsequently helped build the cognitive and information sciences program in to a world class program. He does interdisciplinary work at the intersection of philosophy and cognitive science, drawing on Husserlian phenomenology, dynamical systems theory, and computer modeling and visualization. His overarching research project is to understand how the dynamics of consciousness are related to the dynamics of neural activity. He believes a formalized Husserlian phenomenology is key to this project.