Wjf Keenan

Bio: Wjf Keenan is an academic researcher. The author has an hindex of 1, co-authored 1 publications receiving 42 citations.

Unfolding the Phenomenological Research Process: Iterative Stages of “Seeing Afresh”

Abstract: Phenomenological researchers generally agree that our central concern is to return to embodied, experiential meanings aiming for fresh, complex, rich description of phenomena as concretely lived. Y...

Dance and sexuality: many moves.

Abstract: This literature review of dance and sexual expression considers dance and religion, dance and sexuality as a source of power, manifestations of sexuality in Western theater art and social dance, pl...

Philosophical Antecedents of Situated Cognition

Abstract: I will include embodied cognition as part of the concept of situated cognition. One often encounters these terms used together – embodied cognition and situated cognition – and it is clear that situated cognition cannot be disembodied, although some authors emphasize one over the other or provide principled distinctions between them. Philosophical thought experiments notwithstanding, however, the often-encountered brain in the vat, is, to say the least, in a very odd and artificial situation. Given what seems to be an essential connection between embodiment and situation, I will take the more inclusive and holistic route and view them accordingly.

Culture, Emotion and the Normative Structure of Reality:

Abstract: A central concern for a psychology of culture is the question of how people come to commit themselves to ‘shared’ forms of understanding. Although the ‘shared’ or social nature of human understanding has received ample attention in different forms of cultural psychology, what is lacking is an account of the normative ‘force’ or compellingness of cultural forms. We argue that both phenomenology and social constructionism have failed to acknowledge the inherently normative dimension of social and cultural life. For an alternative grounding of cultural psychology we turn to the work of Merleau-Ponty. We show that at the end of his life Merleau-Ponty was working on a theory of meaning that acknowledges the normative dimension of our affective engagements in the world as well as the affective dimension of our normative engagements. We argue that this theory may be a powerful alternative for a social constructionist approach to culture.

Entangling a Post-Reflexivity Through Post-Intentional Phenomenology

Abstract: In this article, we amplify the post in post-intentional phenomenology to demonstrate some of the unique possibilities this methodology might afford qualitative researchers interested in experiment...