Stephan Käufer is John Williamson Nevin Memorial Professor of Philosophy at Franklin and Marshall College.

Anthony Chemero is Distinguished Research Professor of Philosophy and Psychology at the University of Cincinnati.

Acknowledgements

List of Figures

Introduction

1 Kant: Eighteenth and Nineteenth-Century Background

1.1 Kant's critical philosophy

1.2 Intuitions and concepts

1.3 The transcendental deduction

1.4 Kantian themes in phenomenology

2 The Rise of Experimental Psychology

2.1 Wilhelm Wundt and the rise of scientific psychology

2.2 William James and functionalism

2.3 The structuralism-functionalism debate

3 Edmund Husserl and Transcendental Phenomenology

3.1 Transcendental phenomenology

3.2 Brentano

3.3 Between logic and psychology

3.4 Ideas

3.5 The body

3.6 Phenomenology of time consciousness

4 Martin Heidegger and Existential Phenomenology

4.1 The intelligibility of the everyday world

4.2 Descartes and occurrentness

4.3 Being-in-the-world

4.4 Being-with others and the anyone

4.5 The existential conception of the self

4.6 Death, guilt, and authenticity

5 Gestalt Psychology

5.1 Gestalt criticisms of atomistic psychology

5.2 Perception and the environment

5.3 Influence of Gestalt psychology

6 Aron Gurwitsch: Merging Gestalt Psychology and Phenomenology

6.1 Phenomenology of Thematics and of the Pure Ego

6.2 Others and the Social World

7 Jean-Paul Sartre: Phenomenological Existentialism

7.1 Transcendence of the Ego

7.2 The Imagination and The Imaginary

7.3 Being and Nothingness

8 Maurice Merleau-Ponty: The Body and Perception

8.1 Phenomenology of Perception

8.2 Phenomenology, psychology, and the phenomenal field

8.3 The lived body

8.4 Perceptual constancy and natural objects

9 Critical Phenomenology

9.1 The path not taken

9.2 Phenomenology and Gender

9.3 Phenomenology and Race

10 James J. Gibson and Ecological Psychology

10.1 Gibson's early work: Two examples

10.2 The ecological approach

10.3 Ecological ontology

10.4 Affordances and invitations

11 Hubert Dreyfus and the Phenomenological Critique of Cognitivism

11.1 The cognitive revolution and cognitive science

11.2 "Alchemy and artificial intelligence"

11.3 What Computers Can't Do

11.4 Heideggerian artificial intelligence

12 Enactivism and the Embodied Mind

12.1 Embodied, Embedded, Extended, Enactive

12.2 The Original Enactivism

12.3 Other Enactivisms: The sensorimotor approach and radical enactivism

12.4 Enactivism as a Philosophy of Nature

13 Phenomenological Cognitive Science

13.1 The frame problem

13.2 Radical embodied cognitive science

13.3 Dynamical systems theory

13.4 Heideggerian cognitive science

13.5 The future of scientific phenomenology

References

Index