Two levels in the feeling of familiarity

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ID20141911
AuthorsSonia Maria Lisco (0000-0001-7500-2420, Department of Philosophy, Sociology, Pedagogy and applied Psychology (FISPPA) University of Padova Padova Italy), Francesca Ervas (0000-0001-8521-0266, Department of Education, Psychology, Philosophy University of Cagliari Cagliari Italy, corresponding author)
Year2023
Volume89
Issue6
Pages823-839
Publication date2023-12-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueTheoria (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0040-5825 • E-ISSN: 1755-2567
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/theo.12496
OpenAlexW4388636897
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited54

This paper explores the role of phenomenology in the understanding of the cognitive processes of coupling/decoupling, defending the Wittgensteinian idea that phenomenology can play a crucial role as a description of immediate (social) experience. We argue that epistemic feelings can provide a phenomenological description of the development of a subject's everyday experience, tracking the transition from the processes of coupling/decoupling and recoupling with the world. In particular, the feeling of familiarity, whose key features can be considered the core of epistemic feelings, signals a novelty in the flow of experience that makes sense and is worthy of remarking on or even articulating. By describing the primary features and sources of the feeling of familiarity, we highlight a conceptual tension related to its sources, which could be based on processing both fluency and discrepancy. We proposed a solution to the conceptual tension by introducing two levels of the feeling of familiarity: epistemic and experiential

Cognition · Cognitive psychology · Decoupling (probability) · Epistemology · Experiential learning · Feeling · Novelty · Phenomenology (philosophy) · Embodied and Extended Cognition · Emotions and Moral Behavior · Mind wandering and attention · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology

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