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The Phenomenology of Flow, Well-Being, Autotelic and Self-Transcendent Experience
My dissertation is titled “Experience For Its Own Sake: A Phenomenological Account of Well-Being in Flow States.” It develops a phenomenological account of the so-called flow state, which is a state of absorption in effortless, spontaneous and autotelic action (i.e. action that is experienced as its own reward). Flow is… read more
Paper Abstracts
Paper on the Phenomenology of Collective Agency in Group Flow (Revise and Resubmit)
Abstract coming soon.
Paper on Altered Self-Consciousness in Flow States (title removed for blind review)
One of the key markers of the so-called flow state, as described in positive psychology, is a seeming loss or diminishment of our ordinary consciousness of self. However, … read more
Invited Chapters
Circling Around the Transcendental: the Conscious Subject as the Limit of Nature in Raymond Tallis’ Philosophy and in Phenomenology – Forthcoming in The Palgrave Companion to the Philosophical Humanism of Raymond Tallis, New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
This chapter reconstructs and critically assesses Raymond Tallis’ critique of scientific naturalist accounts of consciousness, which for all their diversity share a basic commitment to explaining consciousness by reifying it. My aim is to… read more
Work in Progress
Distorting Agency: A Phenomenological Critique of Active Inference Accounts of Action in Flow
In this paper, I use phenomenology to show how recent Active Inference accounts of the flow state fail to individuate the intentional and temporal structures that constitute skilled agency in flow. I then argue that… read more
Experience For Its Own Sake: Towards a Phenomenology of Well-Being
In this paper, I illustrate how phenomenology can bring greater clarity and precision to our folk concept of well-being. I introduce… read more
Imagining the Brain: A Phenomenology of the Neuroscientific Imagination
This paper gives a phenomenological account of scientific imagination and visualization which focuses on how neuroscientists use diagrams to understand the brain as a multi-level, hierarchically-organized structure. Drawing on the diverse,… read more
Early stages work-in-progress:
- an article that explores how Husserlian phenomenology enjoins us to rethink the hard problem of consciousness;
- an article that explores whether, and in what sense, neurophenomenology is based on a category mistake;
- a paper on phenomenological explanation that explores the sense in which Husserlian phenomenology functions as “first philosophy” by enjoining us to rethink what counts as an explanatory first principle.