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No heterophenomenology without autophenomenology: Variations on a theme of mine

Marbach, Eduard

In: Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences, 2007, vol. 6, no. 1-2, p. 75-87

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    Titre
    • No heterophenomenology without autophenomenology: Variations on a theme of mine
    Auteur
    • Marbach, Eduard. Institute of Philosophy, University of Bern, Unitobler Laenggass-Strasse 49A, CH-3009, Bern, Switzerland
    Type de document
    • Postprint
    Langue
    • Inglese
    Publié dans
    • Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences, 2007, vol. 6, no. 1-2, p. 75-87. Kluwer Academic Publishers
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    Identifiant OAI-PMH
    • oai:doc.rero.ch:314494
    Summary
    The paper assumes that the very source for an appropriate concept formation and categorization of the phenomena of consciousness is provided by pre-reflectively living through one's own experiences (of perceiving, remembering, imagining, picturing, judging, etc.) and reflecting upon them. It tries to argue that without reflective auto-phenomenological theorizing about such phenomena, there is no prospect for a scientific study of consciousness doing fully justice to the phenomena themselves. To substantiate the point, a detailed reflective and descriptive analysis of re-presentational experiences is presented, an essential property of which is their containing in themselves components that can only be individuated on the basis of reflection by the experiencing subject him- or herself. For heterophenomenology to account for them, autophenomenology is therefore presupposed