First-Person Methods: Toward an Empirical Phenomenology of Experience

First-Person Methods......Page 3
Contents......Page 5
Preface......Page 7
Epigraph......Page 11
1 Towards a Rigorous Praxis of First-Person Method......Page 12
I ON SENSING AND SENSE......Page 18
2 On Vision and Seeing......Page 23
Fundamentals of Visual Perception......Page 25
The Perception of Depth......Page 32
An Experiment in Original, Everyday Perception......Page 37
Iterating Firstand Third-Person Perspectives......Page 42
Conclusion......Page 48
3 On Tact and Touching......Page 50
Investigating Tact......Page 51
Interlacement......Page 59
Interlacement Allows Awakening to Life......Page 63
Conclusion......Page 67
4 Hearing and Listening......Page 68
Deficit: Perspectives......Page 69
Cross-Modality......Page 70
New Opportunities for Hearing......Page 71
Hearing and Listening in Transcribing......Page 72
Understanding Hearing......Page 73
Troubled Hearing......Page 74
Timbre......Page 78
Conclusion......Page 80
5 Tasting and Smelling......Page 82
A Tasting Excursion, an Excursion of Taste......Page 83
An Experiment in Olfaction......Page 87
Coda......Page 93
II MUNDANE EXPERIENCES......Page 95
Recognizing Something Forgotten......Page 98
Memory in Context......Page 99
Memory in the Hand......Page 102
Specters......Page 106
Forgetting and Moira......Page 109
Presence and the Presence of the Present......Page 110
Shortcomings of Hermeneutic Phenomenology......Page 111
The Folly of Metacognition......Page 112
7 On Becoming Significant......Page 114
The Story of the Flat Tire......Page 115
From First-Person Method to Third-Person Method......Page 122
Coda......Page 127
8 On Being and Presence......Page 128
Being Absorbed......Page 129
Being and Being......Page 134
From Being (Presence) to Being (Representation)......Page 138
9 Crises and Suffering as Sources of Learning......Page 141
Pathos, Empathy, and Sympathy......Page 142
Understanding Agency | Passivity......Page 145
Coda......Page 148
10 Thinking and Speaking......Page 151
Finding Thought in Speech......Page 152
Passivity in Speech......Page 155
The Absolutely New is Actually Shared......Page 156
Conclusion......Page 160
III EKSTATIC KNOWING & LEARNING......Page 162
11 Problem Solving......Page 166
School Mathematics ‘Problems......Page 168
On Hospitals and Birth of Boys......Page 169
Mathematics is a Sweet Fruit . . .......Page 180
Everyday Settings......Page 187
Conclusion......Page 191
12 Work, Primary Experiences, and Accounts......Page 192
Confusing Experiences and Accounts Thereof......Page 193
Investigating the Living-Lived Work of Geometrical Proving......Page 196
The Proof Account......Page 197
The Living-Lived Work of Mathematical Seeing in Proving......Page 200
Of Perceptual Work and Accounts of Perception......Page 205
Coda......Page 207
13 Reading......Page 209
First-Person Approach to the Work of Reading......Page 210
How Reading Bootstraps Itself......Page 211
Reading Hyperlinks for a Newsworthy Story......Page 213
Cultural Resources of/for Reading......Page 215
Geography and Cartography of Online Texts......Page 217
Topology and Features......Page 218
Recurrences and Linkages......Page 223
Subtitles......Page 226
Image/Caption Ensembles......Page 230
Body of the Text......Page 233
Online News Media: Opportunities for Rethinking Scientific Literacy Interest, and Science......Page 235
IV FROM RESEARCH TO PUBLICATION......Page 238
Writing to Learn......Page 239
Researching and Reporting Using First-Person Method......Page 243
Appendix......Page 247
References......Page 249
Index......Page 253