The Anatomy of Experience
Phenomenology, Cognitive Science and Epistemology
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 10 May 2026
- ISBN 9780197790120
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages352 pages
- Size 226x157x30 mm
- Weight 635 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 2 b/w illustrations 700
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Short description:
Thinking about ourselves, and thinking about what psychological attitudes we have to the things around us, is the introspective approach to self-actualization. The Anatomy of Experience explores recent results in the cognitive sciences and shows that what we think we see in ourselves, introspectively, is false. In fact, most of what we think about ourselves is a projection onto the reality of who we are. While our psychological self-image doesn't describe who we actually are, Jody Azzouni shows that it is nonetheless indispensable to understanding ourselves as psychological beings.
MoreLong description:
We think we know who we are by introspection, but recent results in the cognitive sciences show this is false. In The Anatomy of Experience Jody Azzouni explores the interconnections between the old-fashioned ways of learning about ourselves, via introspection and behaviourial patterns, and more recent tools from cognitive psychology and neuroscience designed to study the brain. Azzouni investigates our access to purported faculties of mind, our senses, our abilities to infer and remember and evaluates the metaphysical and epistemological status of these faculties. He argues that we have no such faculties in any genuine sense, and that our sensory and cognitive abilities, as we have self-described them for centuries, are, in a significant sense, not real. In fact, most of what we think about ourselves is a nearly indistinguishable projection onto the reality of who we are.
Folk-psychology is, instead, where our self-image as cognitive agents is rooted. Folk-psychological concepts are indispensable for our characterization of ourselves as psychological beings. Neuroscientific advances in our understanding of ourselves require the folk-psychological framework in order to understand new developments about our minds. The sum result is a kind of Kantian picture of our understanding of ourselves. How we describe our minds is something we recognize to not describe how we are "in ourselves." Instead, how we are in ourselves can only be described in pure neurophysiological terms.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Part I. Some History and Some Philosophy of Language
Descartes' Versions of the Sortability and Traceability Theses
The Language of Visual Phenomenology
Part II. Some Phenomenology
Introduction to Part II
Representing, Representations, and the Method of Phenomenological Comparison
Categorical Phenomenology
Visual Content
The Phenomenology of Inference
Cue-Driven Labeling
Part III. Propositional-Attitude Language and Neurophysiology
Propositional-Attitude Language and Cognitive Science
Conclusion
Appendix: Belief Is Metacognitive; Knowledge Needn't Be
