The Inseparability of Consciousness from Embodiment in the Phenomenology of Edith Stein

Fuentes, Paulina Monjaraz

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“…More recent phenomenologically oriented investigations relevant to virtual reality have included analyses of embodiment and intentionality in VR from the perspectives of Merleau-Ponty (Ajana, 2005;Cobián, 2008;McBlane, 2013;Bailey, 2016) and Stein (Fuentes, 2016); Heideggerian explorations of VR focusing on truth, inauthenticity, the world, and aesthetic experience (Coyne, 1994;Polt, 2015;Geng & Peng, 2016); explorations of the connection between the lifeworld and virtual reality (Beeson, 2001;Deuze, 2014;Butnaru, 2015); analyses that relate Ingarden's aesthetics to virtual reality as art and narration (Ryan, 1999(Ryan, , 2001(Ryan, , 2015Drazdauskas, 2006;Vilariño Picos, 2011;Przegalińska, 2014); frameworks for the design of virtual environments that draw on Norberg-Schulz's architectural phenomenology (Gladden, 2018b); broader phenomenological aesthetic analyses of virtual reality (Bekesi, 1999;Rabanus, 2009;Rousseaux, 2010); and more general phenomenological analyses of VR (Kornelsen, 1991;Murray, 1999;Schroeder, 2003;Heinzel & Heinzel, 2010;Asanowicz, 2014). This text seeks to advance such phenomenological study by investigating the nature of the VR-facilitated virtual world qua world and our experience of it.…”

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The Self-Revelation and Cognition of VR-Facilitated Virtual Worlds: Towards a Phenomenology of Virtual Habitation

Gladden¹

2020

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In this text it is argued that immersion in virtual reality (VR) with the aid of contemporary VR equipment may offer access to novel types of virtual worlds that differ qualitatively from the "real" world and from other types of fictional worlds. The text begins by (a) distinguishing between VR systems, virtual environments, and virtual worlds; (b) showing how the virtual worlds facilitated by VR systems resemble and differ from the "virtual worlds" created in one's mind when, for example, reading a novel or watching a film; and (c) identifying necessary and optional elements of a VR-facilitated virtual world. Employing a phenomenological approach that draws on the thought of Ingarden and Norberg-Schulz, it is shown that a visitor to a VR-facilitated virtual world can (and frequently does) shift his or her conscious attention along three different "axes". First, one's attention can move "horizontally" between the media that disclose the virtual world through different senses. Second, one's attention can shift "vertically" between the virtual world's different ontological strata, including its layers of myriad atomic stimuli; distinguishable elements that possess spatiotemporal extension; assemblages of elements that have a context and relations but lack individual meaning; glimpses that build up a lattice of meaning and contribute to one's knowledge of the world; and the virtual world envisioned as a coherent mentally concretized whole. Third, one's attention can shift "interspatially" between the many different overlapping constituent spaces of the virtual world, including its perceptual, concrete, natural, built, identifiable, technological, emotional, social, economic, political, cultural, ecological, and possibility spaces. This triaxial phenomenological framework can shed new light on the rich and diverse ways in which VR-facilitated virtual worlds manifest themselves as emergent wholes constituted within human consciousness; also, it suggests approaches by which visitors might more proactively mentally explore and come to inhabit such virtual worlds.

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The Self-Revelation and Cognition of VR-Facilitated Virtual Worlds: Towards a Phenomenology of Virtual Habitation

Gladden¹

2020

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“…It is thus not surprising that phenomenological methodologies have been found relevant and useful when analyzing or designing virtual environments. They have been used, for example, to develop Heideggerian explorations of VR focusing on the nature of truth, inauthenticity, the world, and aesthetic experience [62][63][64]; analyses of embodiment and intentionality in VR [65][66][67][68][69]; connections between the concept of the "lifeworld" and VR [2,[70][71][72][73]; broader phenomenological aesthetic analyses of VR [1,74,75]; and more general phenomenological analyses of VR [76][77][78][79]. Norberg-Schulz's concept provides yet another phenomenological avenue for investigating the design of virtual environments.…”

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A Phenomenological Framework of Architectural Paradigms for the User-Centered Design of Virtual Environments

Gladden

2018

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In some circumstances, immersion in virtual environments with the aid of virtual reality (VR) equipment can create feelings of anxiety in users and be experienced as something “frightening”, “oppressive”, “alienating”, “dehumanizing”, or “dystopian”. Sometimes (e.g., in exposure therapy or VR gaming), a virtual environment is intended to have such psychological impacts on users; however, such effects can also arise unintentionally due to the environment’s poor architectural design. Designers of virtual environments may employ user-centered design (UCD) to incrementally improve a design and generate a user experience more closely resembling the type desired; however, UCD can yield suboptimal results if an initial design relied on an inappropriate architectural approach. This study developed a framework that can facilitate the purposeful selection of the most appropriate architectural approach by drawing on Norberg-Schulz’s established phenomenological account of real-world architectural modes. By considering the unique possibilities for structuring and experiencing space within virtual environments and reinterpreting Norberg-Schulz’s schemas in the context of virtual environment design, a novel framework was formulated that explicates six fundamental “architectural paradigms” available to designers of virtual environments. It was shown that the application of this framework could easily be incorporated as an additional step within the UCD process.

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“…Esta crítica de Stein está directamente relacionada con sus objeciones en contra de la psicología y algunos especialistas han desarrollado las líneas fundamentales de una psicología fenomenológica desde la propuesta de Edith Stein. Este es el caso de Tommy Akira Goto y Mak A. Borges de Moraes (2016), quienes exponen las críticas de Edith Stein a la psicología, y Paulina Monjaraz (2016), quien sostiene desde una perspectiva steiniana la inseparabilidad de la conciencia y el cuerpo o la encarnación. En un trabajo anterior, Diego I.…”

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Persona y formación. El aporte antropológico de Edith Stein a la educación

Sánchez Muñoz

2018

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En algunas de sus conferencias de finales de la década de los ’20 y principios de los ’30, Edith Stein discutió públicamente algunas de sus ideas sobre la pedagogía. Entre otras, habló de la formación de la mujer, del ethos de las profesiones femeninas y en su curso sobre “La estructura de la persona humana” dedica los primeros capítulos al análisis de las relaciones entre la antropología y la pedagogía a través de la reflexión sobre las implicaciones pedagógicas de algunas teorías como el psicoanálisis, la psicología profunda y la filosofía existencial de Martin Heidegger en las labores educativas. En el curso de 1932-33, habla de la idea del ser humano como fundamento de la pedagogía y de la labor educativa, y presenta su tesis principal: la antropología es el fundamento de la pedagogía. En este estudio presentamos los resultados más significativos del trabajo de Edith Stein y los relacionamos con los conceptos de «persona» y «formación» como ella los aborda en sus escritos. Así, queremos mostrar que la labor educativa ocupa un lugar importante dentro del personalismo de la filósofa de Breslau.Recibido: 24/05/2018 • Aceptado: 01/06/2018

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The Inseparability of Consciousness from Embodiment in the Phenomenology of Edith Stein

Cited by 3 publications

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The Self-Revelation and Cognition of VR-Facilitated Virtual Worlds: Towards a Phenomenology of Virtual Habitation

The Self-Revelation and Cognition of VR-Facilitated Virtual Worlds: Towards a Phenomenology of Virtual Habitation

A Phenomenological Framework of Architectural Paradigms for the User-Centered Design of Virtual Environments

Persona y formación. El aporte antropológico de Edith Stein a la educación

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