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This comprehensive new book introduces the core history of phenomenology and assesses its relevance to contemporary psychology, philosophy of mind, and cognitive science. From critiques of artificial intelligence research programs to ongoing work on embodiment and enactivism, the authors trace how phenomenology has produced a valuable framework for analyzing cognition and perception, whose impact on contemporary psychological and scientific research, and philosophical debates continues to grow. The first part of An Introduction to Phenomenology is an extended overview of the history and dev.

Dedication; Title page; Copyright page; Acknowledgments; Introduction; What you will not find in this book; Phenomenology now; Why study phenomenology?; Overview; 1: Kant and Wundt: Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Background; 1.1 Kant's critical philosophy; 1.2 Wilhelm Wundt and the rise of scientific psychology; Key terms; Further reading; 2: Edmund Husserl and Transcendental Phenomenology; 2.1 Transcendental phenomenology; 2.2 Brentano; 2.3 Between logic and psychology; 2.4 Ideas; 2.5 Phenomenology of time consciousness; Key terms; Further reading.

3: Martin Heidegger and Existential Phenomenology3.1 The intelligibility of the everyday world; 3.2 Descartes and occurrentness; 3.3 Being-in-the-world; 3.4 Being-with others and the anyone; 3.5 The existential conception of the self; 3.6 Death, guilt, and authenticity; Key terms; Further reading; 4: Gestalt Psychology; 4.1 Gestalt criticisms of atomistic psychology; 4.2 Perception and the environment; 4.3 Influence of Gestalt psychology; Key terms; Further reading; 5: Maurice Merleau-Ponty: The Body and Perception; 5.1 Phenomenology of Perception.

5.2 Phenomenology, psychology, and the phenomenal field5.3 The lived body; 5.4 Per…