title: HOW COULD HUSSERL’S THEORY OF THE BODILY SELF-CONSTITUTION OF THE EGO HELP BRIDGE THE EXPLANATORY GAP?
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metadata.value: MAROSAN, BENCE PETER
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2024-06-27T18:10:10Z
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metadata.value: 2024-06-27T18:10:10Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2024-03
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metadata.value: MAROSAN B. P. HOW COULD HUSSERL’S THEORY OF THE BODILY SELF-CONSTITUTION OF THE EGO HELP BRIDGE THE EXPLANATORY GAP?. Horizon. Studies in Phenomenology, 2024, vol. 13 issue 1, pp. 57–94.
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/2226-5260-2024-13-1-57-94
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/45626
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metadata.value: The explanatory gap—the apparently ineliminable chasm between physical, bodily processes and states
  on the one hand, and subjective, lived experience on the other—belongs among the greatest problems
  of contemporary philosophy of mind and empirical research concerning consciousness. According
  to some scholars—such as eliminativist philosophers like Paul and Patricia Churchland—it is a pseudo-
  question. However, in our interpretation, an accurate phenomenological reflection on one’s own
  consciousness convinces the attentive and careful philosopher that it is very much a real question—and
  in fact a crucial one. The present paper endeavours to show how Husserl’s theory of the bodily self-constitution
  of the ego could help us, not to close the explanatory gap in a reductionist manner, but rather
  to bridge this gap by rendering apparent the necessary connection between the subjective, phenomenal
  side of experience and its bodily basis. In this interpretation, Husserl’s conception of embodiment
  could even provide a more rigorous and firmer theoretical foundation than any which currently undergirds
  empirically related research regarding the origins of consciousness in the natural world. In
  the first half of the study, I outline Todd Feinberg and Jon Mallatt’s attempt to bridge and, in a further
  step, to eliminate the explanatory gap, in which they proceed from the external world to the interiority
  of mind. The second part of the paper presents a phenomenological analysis that aims to demonstrate
  that a Husserlian attempt would follow the opposite direction: from the inside proceeding outwards
  towards the external, physical reality.
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metadata.value: This study was supported by the János Bolyai Research Scholarship of the Hungarian Academy of
  Sciences (project: BO/00143/23/2) and by the No. 138745 project of Hungarian Scientific Research
  Fund.
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metadata.value: en
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metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.value: Horizon. Studies in Phenomenology;Volume 13; Issue 1
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: explanatory gap
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: embodiment
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: philosophy of mind
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Edmund Husserl
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: self-constitution
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: transcendental and empirical ego
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: hard problem of consciousness
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metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: HOW COULD HUSSERL’S THEORY OF THE BODILY SELF-CONSTITUTION OF THE EGO HELP BRIDGE THE EXPLANATORY GAP?
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metadata.value: Article
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