Phenomenology and embodied cognition
The chapter examines phenomenology's contributions to the understanding of embodied cognition. It defines phenomenology as the philosophical tradition begun by Edmund Husserl and developed by thinkers such as Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, and Sartre. The author notes that recent phenomenologists have engaged with theoretical and empirical cognitive science, particularly enactive and embodied conceptions of mind. The chapter surveys historical resources defining the phenomenology of the body, considers how phenomenological methodology relates to scientific investigations of embodied cognition, and identifies insights about embodied cognition that phenomenology provides.