Husserlian Neurophenomenology

Grounding the Anthropology of Experience in Reality

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ID6014690
AuthorsC D Laughlin (0000-0002-9242-2635, Carleton University, corresponding author)
Year2024
Volume4
Issue1
Pages91-107
Publication date2024-02-17
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueHumans (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2673-9461 • E-ISSN: 2673-9461
PublisherMDPI AG (PUBLISHER • IT)
DOI10.3390/humans4010006
OpenAlexW4392004676
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited105

Anthropology has long resisted becoming a nomothetic science, thus repeatedly missing opportunities to build upon empirical theoretical constructs, choosing instead to back away into a kind of natural history of sociocultural differences. What is required are methods that focus the ethnographic gaze upon the essential structures of perception as well as sociocultural differences. The anthropology of experience and the senses is a recent movement that may be amenable to including a partnership between Husserlian phenomenology and neuroscience to build a framework for evidencing the existence of essential structures of consciousness, and the neurobiological processes that have evolved to present the world to consciousness as adaptively real. The author shows how the amalgamation of essences (sensory objects, relations, horizons, and associated intuitions) and the quest for neural correlates of consciousness can be combined to augment traditional ethnographic research, and thereby nullify the “it’s culture all the way down” bias of constructivism

Aesthetics · Art · Sociology · Anthropology · Embodied and Extended Cognition · Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy · Social Representations and Identity

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