Consciousness, Being and Life: Phenomenological Approaches to Mindfulness. Bitbol, M. Journal of Phenomenological Psychology, 50(2):127–161, November, 2019.
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\textlesssection class="abstract"\textgreater\textlessh2 class="abstractTitle text-title my-1"\textgreaterAbstract\textless/h2\textgreater\textlessp\textgreaterA phenomenological view of contemplative disciplines is presented. However, studying mindfulness by phenomenology is at odds with both neurobiological and anthropological approaches. It involves the first-person standpoint, the openness of being-in-the-world, the \textlessem\textgreaterumwelt\textless/em\textgreater of the meditator, instead of assessing her neural processes and behaviors from a neutral, distanced, third-person standpoint. It then turns out that phenomenology cannot produce a discourse about mindfulness. Phenomenology rather induces a cross-fertilization between the state of mindfulness and its own methods of mental cultivation. A comparison between the epochè, the phenomenological reduction, and the practice of mindfulness, is then undertaken.\textless/p\textgreater\textless/section\textgreater
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	title = {Consciousness, {Being} and {Life}: {Phenomenological} {Approaches} to {Mindfulness}},
	volume = {50},
	issn = {1569-1624, 0047-2662},
	shorttitle = {Consciousness, {Being} and {Life}},
	url = {https://brill.com/view/journals/jpp/50/2/article-p127_1.xml},
	doi = {10.1163/15691624-12341360},
	abstract = {{\textless}section class="abstract"{\textgreater}{\textless}h2 class="abstractTitle text-title my-1"{\textgreater}Abstract{\textless}/h2{\textgreater}{\textless}p{\textgreater}A phenomenological view of contemplative disciplines is presented. However, studying mindfulness by phenomenology is at odds with both neurobiological and anthropological approaches. It involves the first-person standpoint, the openness of being-in-the-world, the {\textless}em{\textgreater}umwelt{\textless}/em{\textgreater} of the meditator, instead of assessing her neural processes and behaviors from a neutral, distanced, third-person standpoint. It then turns out that phenomenology cannot produce a discourse about mindfulness. Phenomenology rather induces a cross-fertilization between the state of mindfulness and its own methods of mental cultivation. A comparison between the epochè, the phenomenological reduction, and the practice of mindfulness, is then undertaken.{\textless}/p{\textgreater}{\textless}/section{\textgreater}},
	language = {en},
	number = {2},
	urldate = {2019-12-26},
	journal = {Journal of Phenomenological Psychology},
	author = {Bitbol, Michel},
	month = nov,
	year = {2019},
	pages = {127--161}
}

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