How Unconscious is Subliminal Perception?

Abstract

Edited by Shaun Gallagher and Daniel Schmicking Springer, 2010. Pp. vi +688. ISBN 978-9-0481-2645-3. £224 (hbk). Phenomenology seems to have reached a new stage of its development. Perhaps it would be better to say that philosophy has reached a new stage of its development at the beginning of the twenty-first century. This voluminous handbook, in which philosophers and scientists have cooperated to analyse and explicate a wide range of topics belonging to the philosophy of mind, shows concretely the present relationship between phenomenology and cognitive science. It also shows symbolically the present status of philosophy, which has a strong naturalistic tendency, in which cooperation with the sciences is no longer exceptional but rather is the norm.