One-sentence Summaries of My Articles: Part I

Scholars have a tendency to say in 5,000 or 10,000 words what it would take ordinary human beings around 100 or 200 words to say. I am no exception. So here are some of those articles, each boiled down to a sentence or so.

1. "Existential Biology: Kurt Goldstein's Functionalist Rendering of the Human Body," which was published in 2020 by Journal of Consciousness Studies.

2. "Contemporary Neuroscience Humanizes: A Look at Cortical Bilateral... etc.," which was published by The Humanistic Psychologist in 2014.

3. "Phenomenology Without Correlationism: Husserl's Hyletic Material," which was published by Indo-Pacific Journal of Phenomenology in 2015.

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Introduction (to LIFE IS EASIER THAN IT SEEMS)

INTRODUCTION The most frequent question I am asked as a psychology professor is about how to analyze the behavior of another person. The student explains how they are interested in creeping inside the consciousness of their older brother or ex-partner or best friend in order to see clearly the how and the why of that person’s behavior. Privately, I wonder if my students have a secret and possibly dark plan to manipulate their friends and loved ones. In the past, I have always refused to answer the how-to-analyze others question. But I would not refuse to answer with the grace and compassion of a parent who is refusing to treat their child to a second ice cream cone. I would refuse to answer like a bully who wanted to show off. I would give a long explanation about how terrible it is that some people , by whom I meant the student asking the question, liked to think of others in as inhumane and calculating a way as to try to analyze or manipulate them. But I’m all done ...

Introduction to Postphenomenology

See a review I wrote for a postphenomenological methods book HERE .

RENEGADE PSYCHOLOGY

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