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Goldsmiths Whitehead Lecture by Dr. Giovanna Colombetti, Department of Sociology & Philosophy at the University of Exeter
The neuroscientific study of emotion experience has been neglected compared to other aspects of consciousness. Affective neuroscience is still largely dominated by a behaviouristic paradigm that focuses on the link between emotional stimuli, neural, bodily and/or behavioural responses. To rectify this situation, I propose to augment affective neuroscience with the neurophenomenological method originally delineated by Varela (1996) to combine first-, second- and third-person methods in the study of consciousness. I argue that this integration will enrich affective neuroscience as well as neurophenomenology itself, given that the latter has not yet been applied to emotion experience, and has focused exclusively on the brain in spite of its association with the “enactive” view of the mind. Integrating neurophenomenology with affective neuroscience will extend the neurophenomenological method to the rest of the organism (hence the proposed label “affective neuro-physio-phenomenology”), enabling us better to understand how lived experience relates to physical processes.
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| 26 Jan 2011 | 4:00pm - 5:00pm |
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