Quantitative somatic phenomenology: Toward an epistemology of subjective experience

Journal of Consciousness Studies

Volumn 14, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 24-56

  Hartelius, Glenn ^a  

^a NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Embodied science; Felt sense observation; First person methodology; Gesture of phenomenological reduction; Intersubjective; Neurophenomenology; Phenomenal consciousness; Quantitative somatic phenomenology; Somatic quanta; Somatically located ego; State specific science

Indexed keywords

EID: 36749048287     PISSN: 13558250     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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