--- abstract: "William James’ greatest achievement is, arguably, his analysis of the fringe — or, as he sometimes called it, transitive experience. In trying to understand this vague, elusive, often peripheral aspect of consciousness, James broke new ground. But in so doing he also began to lay down the first stratum of a radically new methodology, one that intersects first- and third-person findings in such a way that each is able to interrogate the other, and so further our understanding of both....\r\n\r\nBut I think it is important to see that explanatory phenomenology can be completely scientific without necessarily having to (1) consider the neural substrate, (2) employ reductive arguments, or (3) operate at the third-person level. If I am right, explanatory phenomenology can be a remarkably plastic member of the set of first-person methodologies for the study of consciousness." altloc: [] chapter: ~ commentary: ~ commref: ~ confdates: ~ conference: ~ confloc: ~ contact_email: ~ creators_id: - mangan@cogsci.berkeley.edu creators_name: - family: Mangan given: Bruce B. honourific: Dr. lineage: '' date: 1996 date_type: published datestamp: 2011-08-30 04:22:26 department: ~ dir: disk0/00/00/75/90 edit_lock_since: ~ edit_lock_until: 0 edit_lock_user: ~ editors_id: [] editors_name: [] eprint_status: archive eprintid: 7590 fileinfo: application/pdf;http://cogprints.org/7590/1/Mangan_1996_TheFringeACaseStudyInExplanatoryPhenomenology_JCS.pdf full_text_status: public importid: ~ institution: ~ isbn: ~ ispublished: pub issn: ~ item_issues_comment: [] item_issues_count: 0 item_issues_description: [] item_issues_id: [] item_issues_reported_by: [] item_issues_resolved_by: [] item_issues_status: [] item_issues_timestamp: [] item_issues_type: [] keywords: "Aesthetics, Feeling of Knowing, Fringe, Rightness, Structure of Consciousness, William James\r\n" lastmod: 2011-08-30 04:22:26 latitude: ~ longitude: ~ metadata_visibility: show note: ~ number: 2-3 pagerange: 249-252 pubdom: FALSE publication: Journal of Consciousness Studies publisher: ~ refereed: TRUE referencetext: ~ relation_type: [] relation_uri: [] reportno: ~ rev_number: 18 series: ~ source: ~ status_changed: 2011-08-30 04:22:26 subjects: - cog-psy succeeds: ~ suggestions: ~ sword_depositor: ~ sword_slug: ~ thesistype: ~ title: 'The Fringe: A Case Study in Explanatory Phenomenology' type: journalp userid: 14191 volume: 6