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Filling the Gap between Contemporary Cognitive Science and Classical Phenomenology

Youngjin Kiem 1

1동국대학교

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ABSTRACT

Both cognitive science and phenomenology concern investigations into the nature of cognition. But there is a surprising and perplexing matter between them. That is, although both of them deal with the common topic such as “the nature of cognition and mind”, as far as actual research is concerned, there are hardly mutual communications and cooperations between them. In this problematic situation, so as to uncover the possible communication between cognitive science and phenomenology, we now raise these questions: Is it really possible to connect contemporary cognitive science to the classical Husserlian phenomenology? If so, how is it possible? Among some recent philosophical strategies that aim to resolve this matter, I adopt the view that we can connect the two academic disciplines by means of positing a new alternative form of phenomenology. In this regard I claim that connecting contemporary cognitive science to the classical phenomenology is possible when we (i) clarify, from the perspectives of cognitive science and phenomenology, the concept of phenomenon which has rather several meanings, (ii) lay bare a proper alternative form of phenomenology compatible with cognitive science; and (iii) supplement an additional, methodological apparatus that can combine such alternative phenomenology with the classical phenomenology. If this inquiry is successful, it will make us free from unnecessary misunderstandings and biases on those two disciplines, and provide us with a new basis for mutual communication between them.

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