Front Psychol
April 28, 2021
Christopher Gutland, Wenjing Cai, Anthony Vincent Fernandez
2 citations
Consciousness research benefits from combining philosophical and scientific approaches. The editorial argues that integrating conceptual analysis from philosophy with empirical methods from neuroscience and psychology can lead to a more comprehensive understanding of consciousness. It highlights the need for interdisciplinary collaboration to address fundamental questions about the nature of conscious experience, such as the hard problem of consciousness and the relationship between mind and brain. The piece suggests that such integration can overcome limitations of purely philosophical or purely scientific approaches, fostering progress in the field.
Front Psychol
February 26, 2024
Christopher Gutland, Sucharit Katyal, Kelin Li et al.
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Frontiers in psychology
January 1, 2025
Christopher Gutland, Huan Liu
Liangkang Ni's work identifies deep parallels and divergences between Edmund Husserl's phenomenology and Yogācāra Buddhism, particularly in doctrines like consciousness-only, store-consciousness, and self-consciousness. Ni reads Husserl's own reflections on Buddhism and reconstructs genetic and structural parallels between Husserl's genetic phenomenology and Yogācāra concepts. The article provides conceptual clarification and theoretical integration aimed at informing contemporary debates in consciousness studies, rather than offering new empirical data.
Frontiers in Psychology
June 6, 2018
Christopher Gutland
Husserl's method for exploring the essential, a priori laws of consciousness is a form of introspection. The article examines four elements of Husserl's methodology: the principle of all principles, epoché, phenomenological reduction, and eidetic variation. These are related to six features of introspection defined by Eric Schwitzgebel. Husserl's approach avoids common pitfalls of introspection, such as uncontrolled awareness, false prejudices, and difficulty distinguishing idiosyncratic from general features of consciousness. The article situates Husserl's approach in relation to Hume's and Kant's philosophical systems.