Kursinformation

This course provides an overview of key ideas developed within the phenomenological tradition and their reception in current debates in cognitive science. In the first part of the course, students will become familiar with the phenomenological method through the views of central thinkers in this tradition, such as Husserl, Heidegger, and Merleau-Ponty, as well as their recent interpretations.
In the second part, we will focus on the influence of phenomenological ideas on current debates in cognitive science. In particular, we will examine how embodied, embedded, enacted, and extended approaches to cognition, the so-called 4E cognition, have challenged the representational and computational view of the mind by drawing on phenomenology.
We will focus on three central themes:
1. Embodiment and skilled actions
2. Social cognition
3. Situated affectivity
For each of these themes, we will discuss the phenomenological approach, their reception in recent debates in cognitive science, and some examples of their application.