Phenomenology, 4E Cog-Sci & Awe (Shaun Gallagher)

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Shaun Gallagher is the Lillian and Morrie Moss Professor of Excellence in Philosophy at the University of Memphis. He is a founding editor and continues as a co-editor-in-chief of Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences, an interdisciplinary journal published by Springer.

In this episode, we talk about Shaun's background, the nature of phenomenology and cognitive science, the role of embodiment and action, and Shaun's research about the overview effect; the awe astronauts feel during spaceflight when seeing Earth.

My main microphone died shortly after the podcast started, so you will notice the quality decreasing at some point, as I had to use my camera microphone. Sorry!

The timestamps below are made for YT so they are not 100% accurate as the pace differs slightly.

02:00 Shaun's background in philosophy 05:19 Shaun's background in cognitive science 07:00 Interdisciplinarity and Cog-Sci 10:00 The paradox of phenomenology 17:02 Scientific vs philosophical methods in phenomenology 21:02 Cog-Sci as an example of the role of philosophy in science 26:17 Existentialism in phenomenology 32:00 Embodied Cog-Sci and psychopathology 36:09 Virtual reality for therapy 39:45 What's 4E Cognitive Science? 53:05 4E Cognitive Science and Buddhism 58:15 Varela and Dalai Lama - Mind & Life Institute 1:00:00 Metaphysical tensions of Buddism and Western Science 1:04:00 Awe in the overview effect 1:10:15 Differences in present and future reporting 1:14:10 Background of the awe experience 1:16:45 Feeling of unity 1:19:45 Connections with psychedelic and religious experiences 1:25:00 Enactivist Cognition 1:31:00 Critique of Heidegger of social cognition 1:34:50 History of embodiment

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