?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rft.title=The+Fringe%3A+A+Case+Study+in+Explanatory+Phenomenology&rft.creator=Mangan%2C+Dr.+Bruce+B.&rft.subject=Cognitive+Psychology&rft.description=William+James%E2%80%99+greatest+achievement+is%2C+arguably%2C+his+analysis+of+the+fringe+%E2%80%94+or%2C+as+he+sometimes+called+it%2C+transitive+experience.+In+trying+to+understand+this+vague%2C+elusive%2C+often+peripheral+aspect+of+consciousness%2C+James+broke+new+ground.+But+in+so+doing+he+also+began+to+lay+down+the+first+stratum+of+a+radically+new+methodology%2C+one+that+intersects+first-+and+third-person+findings+in+such+a+way+that+each+is+able+to+interrogate+the+other%2C+and+so+further+our+understanding+of+both....%0D%0A%0D%0ABut+I+think+it+is+important+to+see+that+explanatory+phenomenology+can+be+completely+scientific+without+necessarily+having+to+(1)+consider+the+neural+substrate%2C+(2)+employ+reductive+arguments%2C+or+(3)+operate+at+the+third-person+level.+If+I+am+right%2C+explanatory+phenomenology+can+be+a+remarkably+plastic+member+of+the+set+of+first-person+methodologies+for+the+study+of+consciousness.&rft.date=1996&rft.type=Journal+(Paginated)&rft.type=PeerReviewed&rft.format=application%2Fpdf&rft.identifier=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F7590%2F1%2FMangan_1996_TheFringeACaseStudyInExplanatoryPhenomenology_JCS.pdf&rft.identifier=++Mangan%2C+Dr.+Bruce+B.++(1996)+The+Fringe%3A+A+Case+Study+in+Explanatory+Phenomenology.++%5BJournal+(Paginated)%5D+++++&rft.relation=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F7590%2F