Experimental Phenomenology: Multistabilities

by Don Ihde

Overview

Expanded new edition of the landmark book demonstrating the practice of phenomenology through visual illusions and ambiguous drawings

Since the initial publication of Experimental Phenomenology in 1977, Don Ihde's groundbreaking career has developed from his contributions to the philosophy of technology and technoscience to his own postphenomenology. This new and expanded edition of Experimental Phenomenology resituates the text in the succeeding currents of Ihde's work with a new preface and two new sections, one devoted to pragmatism and phenomenology and the other to technologies and material culture. Now, in the case of tools, instruments, and media, Ihde's active and experimental style of phenomenology is taken into cyberspace, science and media technologies, computer games, display screens, and more.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781438442877
Publisher:	State University of New York Press
Publication date:	02/01/2012
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	216
File size:	914 KB
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Don Ihde is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at Stony Brook University, State University of New York. He is the author of several books, including Postphenomenology and Technoscience: The Peking University Lectures and Listening and Voice: Phenomenologies of Sound, Second Edition, both also published by SUNY Press.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
Preface to the Second Edition
Preface to the First Edition
Acknowledgments

Part I. Experimental Phenomenology: An Introduction

1. Introduction: Doing Phenomenology

2. Indians and the Elephant: Phenomena and the Phenomenological Reductions

3. The Visual Field: First Phenomenological Excursus

4. Illusions and Multistable Phenomena: A Phenomenological Deconstruction

5. Variations upon Deconstruction: Possibilities and Topography

6. Expanded Variations and Phenomenological Reconstruction

7. Horizons: Adequacy and Invariance

8. Projection: Expanding Phenomenology

9. Interdisciplinary Phenomenology

Part II. Pragmatism and Postphenomenology

10. Pragmatism and Phenomenology

Part III. Material Multistabilities

11. Simulation and Embodiment

12. Multistability and Cyberspace

13. Variations on Camera Obscura

14. The Seventh Machine: Bow-under-Tension

Epilogue

Notes
References
Indicies

Editorial Reviews

In a new preface Idhe reflects on the bulk of his work, identifying its impact on other disciplines. This helps strengthen the new chapters, which elaborate the contact between phenomenology and technologies of film, simulation, video games, science imaging, and bows ... It can serve as a very clear way into phenomenology for those in other fields, and also as a move toward broadening the applications of phenomenological theory.— CHOICE

Praise for the First Edition

"...the unencumbered style of the book and prolific use of concrete examples makes the content accessible both to the beginning student of philosophy and to the intelligent layman."— Review of Metaphysics

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