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Dr. P. Sven Arvidson specializes in bridging phenomenology and
psychology, especially focusing on attention research. He received his doctorate from Georgetown University
in 1990, and masters degree in phenomenological
psychology from Duquesne
University in 1981.
Before choosing to move to Seattle, he was a
tenured associate professor in Cincinnati,
where he taught Critical Thinking, Ethics, Philosophy of Art, Philosophy of
Consciousness, and Philosophy of Love and Friendship. Since 1999, Dr.
Arvidson has taught in the Core program at Seattle University.
Selected Publications
Books
Teaching Nonmajors: Advice for Liberal Arts Professors, Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 2008.
The Sphere of Attention: Context and Margin, Dordrecht:
The Netherlands,
Springer, 2006.
Intuition: The Inside Story:
Interdisciplinary Perspectives, co-edited with Robbie Davis-Floyd,
N.Y.: Routledge Press, 1997.
Articles and Chapters in Books
"Attentional Capture and Attentional
Character" Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences,
forthcoming.
“Attention in
Context,” in Handbook for
Phenomenology and Cognitive Science, S. Gallagher and D. Schmicking (eds.), Springer, 2008.
"Experimental Evidence for
Three Dimensions of Attention," in Gurwitsch's
Revelancy for the Cognitive Sciences, Lester Embree (ed.), Springer, 2004.
"A Lexicon of Attention:
From Cognitive Science to Phenomenology" Phenomenology and the
Cognitive Sciences, 2003, 2 (2).
"Moral Attention in Encountering You: Gurwitsch
and Buber" Husserl Studies, 2003, 19 (1).
"Transformations in Consciousness: Continuity, the Self, and Marginal
Consciousness", Journal of Consciousness Studies, 2000, 7 (3).
"Bringing Context into Focus: Parallels in the Psychology of Attention
and the Philosophy of Science", The Journal of Phenomenological
Psychology, 1998, 29 (1).
"Looking Intuit: A Phenomenological Investigation of Intuition and
Attention" Chapter in Intuition: The Inside Story:
Interdisciplinary Perspectives, co-edited with Robbie Davis-Floyd, Routledge Press, 1997.
"Relevance and Aesthetic Perception" in To Work at the
Foundations: Essays in Memory of Aron Gurwitsch, Evans, C. and Shufflebeam,
A., (eds.), Contributions to Phenomenology Series, Kluwer
Academic Publishers, 1997.
"Toward a Phenomenology of Attention", Human Studies: A
Journal for Philosophy and the Social Sciences, 1996, 19.
"Stability and Achievement in Richard Lind's Aesthetic Theory", Journal
of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, 1993, 51 (4).
"The Field of Consciousness: James and Gurwitsch",
Transactions of the C. S. Peirce Society: A Quarterly Journal in
American Philosophy, 1992, 28 (4).
"On the Origin of Organization in Consciousness", Journal of
the British Society for Phenomenology, 1992, 23 (1).
"Hegel on the Nature and Status of the Concept in Kant's Critical
Philosophy", Kinesis, 1986, 15 (2).
Curriculum
Vitae, P. Sven Arvidson
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