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The Phenomenological Mind Is The First Book To Properly Introduce Fundamental Questions About The Mind From The Perspective Of Phenomenology. Key Questions And Topics Covered Include: What Is Phenomenology?, Naturalizing Phenomenology And The Cognitive Sciences, Phenomenology And Consciousness, Consciousness And Self-consciousness, Time And Consciousness, Intentionality, The Embodied Mind, Action, Knowledge Of Other Minds, Situated And Extended Minds, Phenomenology And Personal Identity. This Second Edition Includes A New Preface, And Revised And Improved Chapters. Also Included Are Helpful Features Such As Chapter Summaries, Guides To Further Reading, And A Glossary, Making The Phenomenological Mind An Ideal Introduction To Key Concepts In Phenomenology, Cognitive Science, And Philosophy Of Mind.--page 4 Of Cover. Introduction: Philosophy Of Mind, Cognitive Science, And Phenomenology -- An Oversimplified Account Of The Last 100 Years -- What Is Phenomenology? -- Outline Of This Book -- Methodologies -- Fantasies In The Science Of Consciousness -- Phenomenological Method -- Naturalizing Phenomenology -- Conclusion -- Consciousness And Self-consciousness -- Consciousness And Pre-reflective Self-consciousness -- Pre-reflective Self-consciousness And 'what It Is Like' -- Blindsight -- Self-consciousness And Reflection -- Conclusion: Driving It Home -- Time -- The Default Account -- A Phenomenology Of Time-consciousness -- The Microstructure Of Consciousness And Self-consciousness -- Time-consciousness And Dymnamical Systems Theory -- Is Consciousness Of A Temporal Process Itself Temporally Extended? -- Historicity -- Perception -- Perceptual Holism -- Conceptuality And Ambiguity -- The Role Of Others -- Intentionality -- What Is Intentionality? -- Resemblance, Causation, And Mental Representation -- The Positive Account -- Intentionalism -- Intentionality And Consciousness -- Phenomenology, Externalism, And Metaphysical Realism -- The Embodied Mind -- Robotic And Biological Bodies -- How The Body Defines The Space Of Experience -- The Body As Experientially Transparent -- Embodiment And Social Cognition -- Action And Agency -- The Phenomenology Of Agency -- Experimenting With The Sense Of Agency -- My Actions And Yours -- How We Know Others -- Theory-of-mind Debate -- Problems With Implicit Simulation -- Empathy And The Argument From Analogy -- Mentalism And The Conceptual Problem Of Other Minds -- Interaction And Narrative -- Self And Person -- Neuroscepticism And The No-self Doctrine -- Various Notions Of Self -- Sociality And Personality -- A Developmental Story -- Pathologies Of The Self -- Conclusion. Shaun Gallagher And Dan Zahavi. First Published In 2008 (london; New York: Routledge). Includes Bibliographical References (p. [245]-266) And Index.