In this paper, I provide phenomenological reasons to believe that temporality and affectivity are co-emergent. In fact, it is in the interplay between affectivity (affection) and temporality (protention), that the most basic and general form of intentionality arises.
In contrast to such phenomenological ideas, but certainly inspired by them, some enactivists (most notably, Varela) link affectivity and temporality, claiming that the former 'precedes' the latter. But this view risks conflating explanatory levels (transcendental and empirical).
Something that I find quite interesting about classical phenomenologists is how, in some way or another, they give temporality some sort of primacy. As Husserl puts it, time-consciousness is the 'A' in the ABCs of consciousness. But this view is too formal to fully succeed.
In most of my papers, I ramble on about time-consciousness and its importance for our understanding of consciousness. But that is only half of the story! As I see it, temporality and affectivity come together. In this new paper, I explain why. link.springer.com/article/10.1...
One of the (many) things I hate about grading is that, not being a native English speaker, finding awkwardly written phrases makes me go in a downward spiral in which I doubt myself before considering the fact that some of those phrases simply don't make any sense, which makes grading take longer
As an undergrad, I’d often skip writing research questions that lecturers asked us to write before writing final essays for their modules. I’d go directly to writing the essay. I regret it. I feel like I don’t know how to write a compelling & concrete proposal even when I feel I have good intuitions
Why did nobody tell me about the overlap between trying to finish my PhD thesis and trying to come up with a research project for a potential postdoc?
Sometimes I'm like "I'm all for the naturalization of phenomenology", but other times I'm more like "When we mix phenomenological and empirical categories everything stops making sense".
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