Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences

Papers
(The median citation count of Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences is 1. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)
ArticleCitations
Experiences of silent reading43
Explaining unconscious discrimination: misattribution and rationalization31
Embodied higher cognition: insights from Merleau-Ponty’s interpretation of motor intentionality26
“We’re protecting them to death”—A Heideggerian interpretation of loneliness among older adults in long-term care facilities during COVID-1924
Review of David Chalmers, Reality+: virtual Worlds and the problems of Philosophy, New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 202223
Perception in the mirror: the influence of self-beliefs22
Awareness in the void: a micro-phenomenological exploration of conscious dreamless sleep22
Methodological reductionism or methodological dualism? In search of a middle ground18
Keeping cognition kinky: a reply to Moyal-Sharrock on contentful cognition and its origins17
Responses to commentators15
Joining attention to see differently14
A free energy reconstruction of arguments for panpsychism12
Review of Lawrence J. Hatab, Proto-Phenomenology, Language Acquisition, Orality, and Literacy: Dwelling in Speech II12
Eidetic description of consciousness, or consciousness explained in its own right11
Experimental and relational authenticity: how neurotechnologies impact narrative identities11
The unbearable lightness of the personal, explanatory level11
Freediving neurophenomenology and skilled action: an investigation of brain, body, and behavior through breath11
Meta-awareness, mind wandering and negative mood in the context of the continuity hypothesis of dreaming10
The lived experience of remembering a ‘good’ interview: Micro-phenomenology applied to itself10
Review of Christian Tewes and Giovanni Stanghellini (eds.), Time and Body. Phenomenological and psychopathological approaches, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 202110
Looking for blindness: first-hand accounts of people with BID9
Resisting temptation and overcoming procrastination: The roles of mental time travel and metacognition9
Getting real about pretense9
Review of David Papineau, The metaphysics of sensory experience9
Precedent as a path laid down in walking: Grounding intrinsic normativity in a history of response8
The relationship between free will and consciousness8
Editorial: Working with others’ experience8
Becoming anonymous: how strict COVID-19 isolation protocols impacted ICU patients7
The Simulation Theory of Memory and the phenomenology of remembering7
Correction to: Taking phenomenology beyond the first‑person perspective: conceptual grounding in the collection and analysis of observational evidence7
WTF?! Covid-19, indignation, and the internet7
Pragmatic realism: towards a reconciliation of enactivism and realism6
Correction to: A phenomenologically grounded empirical approach to experiences of adolescent depression6
Social phenomena as a challenge to the scaling-up problem6
Review of Stefano Micali, Phenomenology of Anxiety, Cham: Springer, 20226
Gesture, meaning, and intentionality: from radical to pragmatist enactive theory of language6
Praxeological Enactivism vs. Radical Enactivism: Reply to Hutto6
Writing as an extended cognitive system6
Can’t stop, won’t stop – an enactivist model of Tarantism6
Multilayer networks as embodied consciousness interactions. A formal model approach6
Struggling for a tomorrow: lived time in social anxiety disorder6
The expressive case for animal self-consciousness6
Habitually breaking habits: Agency, awareness, and decision-making in musical improvisation6
What could come before time? Intertwining affectivity and temporality at the basis of intentionality6
Review of Farid Zahnoun, the embodiment of meaning, New York: Routledge, 20245
Agency at a distance: learning causal connections5
Beyond intuitive know-how5
Evidence synthesis indicates contentless experiences in meditation are neither truly contentless nor identical5
The salience of things: toward a phenomenology of artifacts (via knots, baskets, and swords)5
Picking up the gauntlet. A reply to Casper and Haueis5
No need for mineness: Depersonalization/Derealization Disorder and mental state types5
Searching in an unfamiliar environment: a phenomenologically informed experiment5
Nonveridical biosemiotics and the Interface Theory of Perception: implications for perception-mediated selection5
Review of Matthew MacKenzie Buddhist philosophy and the Embodied Mind: a constructive engagement, London: Roman & Littlefield, 20225
Review of Jonardon Ganeri, Attention, Not Self5
Review of Alba Montes Sánchez and Alessandro Salice (eds.), Emotional Self-Knowledge, New York and London: Routledge, 20234
Review of Miguel A. Sepúlveda-Pedro, enactive cognition in place: sense-making as the development of ecological norms, New York: Palgrave Macmillan Cham, 20234
Losing faith and losing a world: deconversion as an occasion for grief4
The phenomenology of aging4
Pretense as alternative sense-making: a praxeological enactivist account4
Off the beaten path: perception in enactivism and the realism-idealism question4
On losing certainty4
Phenomenology and artificial intelligence: introductory notes4
Beyond reasonable doubt: reconsidering Neanderthal aesthetic capacity4
Review of Sanneke de Haan, Enactive Psychiatry, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 20204
Introduction to the special issue ‘The phenomenology of joint action’4
How we share emotions4
What is an art experience like from the viewpoint of sculpting clay?4
A broad variety account of infantile need-experiences4
Enactivist Big Five Theory4
Why language clouds our ascription of understanding, intention and consciousness4
Sartre on the responsibility of the individual in violent groups3
Review of Rob Withagen, Affective Gibsonian Psychology, New York: Routledge, 20223
Self-tracking, background(s) and hermeneutics. A qualitative approach to quantification and datafication of activity3
The lived, living, and behavioral sense of perception3
The given and the hard problem of content3
Technologically-mediated auditory experience: Split horizons3
The enactment of shared agency in teams exploring Mars through rovers3
Phenomenological psychology and qualitative research3
Understanding as explaining: how motives can become causes3
From tech to tact: emotion dysregulation in online communication during the COVID-19 pandemic3
Qualities of consent: an enactive approach to making better sense3
Phenomenal transparency, cognitive extension, and predictive processing3
Pretense: the context of possibilities3
Phenomenological interviews in learning and teaching phenomenological approach in psychiatry3
Absence of other and disruption of self: an interpretative phenomenological analysis of the meaning of loneliness in the context of life in a religious community3
Letting the body find its way: skills, expertise, and Bodily Reflection3
Feeling and performing ‘the crisis’: on the affective phenomenology and politics of the corona crisis3
The not-yet-conscious3
Misidentification delusions as mentalization disorders3
Unpacking an affordance-based model of chronic pain: a video game analogy3
Viewing the body as an (almost) ageing thing3
Animal navigation without mental representation2
Methodological considerations for the mechanistic explanation of illusory representations in the context of psychopathology2
Dialectics of addiction: a psychopathologically-enriched comprehension of the clinical care of the addicted person2
Methods of data collection in psychopathology: the role of semi-structured, phenomenological interviews2
Correction to: Methods of data collection in psychopathology: the role of semi-structured, phenomenological interviews2
Thinking at the edge in the context of embodied critical thinking: Finding words for the felt dimension of thinking within research2
Projection or encounter? Investigating Hans Jonas’ case for natural teleology2
What is 4E cognitive science?2
Facing life: the messy bodies of enactive cognitive science2
Imagery in action. G. H. Mead’s contribution to sensorimotor enactivism2
Making sense of doing science: on some pragmatic motifs guiding the enactive approach to science2
Review of Guilherme Messas’ ‘The Existential structure of substance misuse: A psychopathological study’2
Sensing gesture’s relationality. Review of Jürgen Streeck, Self-making Man: A Day of Action, Life and Language, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 20172
Review of sune vork steffensen, stephen cowley, and martin döring (eds.), Language as an ecological phenomenon: languaging and Bioecologies in human-environment relationships, London: Bloomsbury Acade2
The strong program in embodied cognitive science2
Proactive control and agency2
From authenticism to alethism: Against McCarroll on observer memory2
Motivation as an epistemic ground2
Rhythm and the embodied aesthetics of infant-caregiver dialogue: insights from phenomenology2
How not to decide whether inner speech is speech: Two common mistakes2
Taking phenomenology beyond the first-person perspective: conceptual grounding in the collection and analysis of observational evidence2
The enactive approach: a briefer statement, with some remarks on “radical enactivism”2
Review of Axel Seemann, the shared world: Perceptual common knowledge, demonstrative communication, and social space, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 20192
Substance addiction: cure or care?2
Imagination, endogenous attention, and mental agency2
Memory, identity, and technology: explicating functionalist positions in the hippocampal cognitive prosthesis2
The extended mind argument against phenomenal intentionality2
Pairing and sharing: The birth of the sense of us2
Review of Iso Kern, Erinnerung, Personale Einheit, Reflexion. Drei philosophische Studien, Basel: Schwabe Verlag, 20212
Re-affirming experience, presence, and the world: setting the RECord straight in reply to Noë2
Review of Gail Weiss, Ann V. Murphy, and Gayle Salamon (ed), 50 concepts for a critical phenomenology, Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press2
Can communication Brain-Computer Interfaces read minds?2
Bringing forth a world, literally2
Socio-cultural norms in ecological psychology: The education of intention2
Enactivist social ontology2
Anticipating and enacting worlds: moods, illness and psychobehavioral adaptation2
Introduction to the Special Issue on Enactivism: Theory and Performance1
The interoceptive underpinnings of the feeling of being alive. Damasio’s insights at work1
Really situated self-control: self-control as a set of situated skills1
The problem of direct access in predictive processing models: a transcendental naturalist solution1
Explanation, Enaction and Naturalised Phenomenology1
Imagination, Mental Representation, and Moral Agency: Moral Pointers in Kierkegaard and Ricoeur1
Embodiment and intelligence, a levinasian perspective1
“Where lies the grail? AI, common sense, and human practical intelligence”1
Review of Nancy J. Holland, Heidegger and the problem of consciousness, Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 20181
Naïve realism, imagination and hallucination1
Phenomenology of social explanation1
Acheulean technology and emergent sociality: what material engagement means for the evolution of human-environment systems1
Hinges, philosophy and mind: on Moyal-Sharrock’s certainty in action1
The social dimension of pain1
How agency is constitutive of phenomenal consciousness: pushing the first and third-personal approaches to their limits1
Review of Michelle Maiese and Robert Hanna, The Mind–Body Politic, London: Palgrave Macmillan, 20191
Being one of us: we-identities and self-categorization theory1
The phenomenology of joint agency: the implicit structures of the shared life-world1
Correction: A marriage of convenience - defending explanatory integration of phenomenology with mechanism. In response to Williams1
Review of Matthew Ratcliffe, Grief worlds: a study of emotional experience, Cambridge, Massachusetts: the MIT Press, 20221
The irreducibility of subjectivity: exploring the intersubjective dialectic of body-subject and body-object in anorexia nervosa1
Can an algorithm become delusional? Evaluating ontological commitments and methodology of computational psychiatry1
Phenomenal transparency and the boundary of cognition1
For a contextualist and content-related understanding of the difference between human and artificial intelligence1
Was culture cumulative in the Palaeolithic?1
Review of Elisa Magrí and Paddy McQueen, Critical Phenomenology: An Introduction, Cambridge: Polity 20231
The intentional structure of generative models1
Unchosen transformative experiences and the experience of agency1
Phenomenological explanation: towards a methodological integration in phenomenological psychopathology1
The path to contentless experience in meditation: An evidence synthesis based on expert texts1
Phenomenology and making sense of the DSM: situatedness in melancholic and atypical depression1
Embodied movement consciousness1
Why the extended mind is nothing special but is central1
New Ontological Foundations for Extended Minds: Causal Powers Realism1
A Sartrean analysis of pandemic shaming1
Re-enactment and embodied resonance in episodic memory: reconciling phenomenological approaches and constructive theories1
Mental measurement and the introspective privilege1
Pluralist neurophenomenology: a reply to Lopes1
Enactive psychiatry and social integration: beyond dyadic interactions1
Clues and caveats concerning artificial consciousness from a phenomenological perspective1
Natralization without associationist reduction: a brief rebuttal to Yoshimi1
Unfulfilled habits: on the affective consequences of turning down affordances for social interaction1
A marriage of convenience - defending explanatory integration of phenomenology with mechanism. In response to Williams1
Own-world and Common World in Schizophrenia: Towards a Theory of Anthropological Proportions1
Tasks in cognitive science: mechanistic and nonmechanistic perspectives1
Practices and practicing in human moral development1
Review of Daniel O’Shiel, The Phenomenology of Virtual Technology: Perception and Imagination in a Digital Age, Dublin: Bloomsbury Academic, 20221
Does artificial intelligence exhibit basic fundamental subjectivity? A neurophilosophical argument1
Review of Domonkos Sik, Empty suffering: a social phenomenology of depression, anxiety, and addiction, London and New York: Routledge, 20221
Towards a phenomenological approach to psychopharmacology: drug-centered model and epistemic empowerment1
Review of in defense of the human being: foundational questions of an embodied anthropology by Thomas Fuchs, Oxford University Press, 20211
Tools and peripersonal space: an enactive account of bodily space1
Group Agents and the Phenomenology of Joint Action1
Self-knowledge from resistance training1
Philosophy and prehistory: new perspectives on minds, art, and culture1
Phenomenological reflections on grief during the COVID-19 pandemic1
Prehistory, anti-Cartesianism, and the first-person viewpoint1
Reassessing the relationship between phenomenology and explanation: an introduction1
Hard data or heart data? Interrupting prereflective experience with medical representations1
Improvisation and thinking in movement: an enactivist analysis of agency in artistic practices1
Emotional Phenomenology: A New Puzzle1
Imaginative play for a predictive spectator: theatre, affordance spaces, and predictive engagement1
A complete, unabridged, “pre-registered” descriptive experience sampling investigation: The case of Lena1
Emotions of the pandemic: phenomenological perspectives1
AI-informed acting: an Arendtian perspective1
On the content of Peripersonal visual experience1
Distinguishing imagining from perceiving: reality monitoring and the ‘Perky effect’1
Framing the predictive mind: why we should think again about Dreyfus1
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