Filip Kobiela

Philosopher working as an assistant professor at the University School of PE, Cracow, Poland. He graduated in philosophy at the Jagiellonian University and completed a PhD thesis in the field of philosophy of time (Filozofia czasu Romana Ingardena wobec sporów o zmienność świata, Universitas, Kraków 2011, in Polish). He links phenomenological and analytical methods in researching ontology, philosophy of time, philosophical theory of games. Selected publications: Kinds of Chance in Sport, Sport, Ethics and Philosophy, Vol. 8, nr 1 (2014), 65-76. The Causal Structure of the World in Ingarden’s Ontology, w: Substantiality and Causality, ed. M. Szatkowski, M. Rosiak, Walter de Gruyter 2014, 39-60. Email: f.kobiela@iphils.uj.edu.pl

Issue: 4:2 (The fourth issue)

The paper addresses the family of questions that arose from the field of interactions between phenomenology and the cognitive sciences. On the one hand, apparently partial coextensivity of research domain of phenomenology and the cognitive sciences sets the goal of their cooperation and mutual inspiration. On the other hand, there are some obstacles on the path to achieve this goal: phenomenology and the cognitive sciences have different traditions, they speak different languages, they have adopted different methodological approaches, and last but not least, their prominent exponents exhibits different styles of thinking. In order to clarify this complicated area of tensions, the paper presents the results of philosophical reflections of such topics as: 1) philosophical presuppositions and postulates of the cognitive sciences 2) abstraction of some phenomena during idealisation and the dialectical model of science`s development 3) argumentation based on prediction of future development of the cognitive sciences. This finally leads to the formulation of a phenomenology-based postulate for adequate model of mind and the discussion of humanistic dimension of cognitive sciences.