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first-person research epistemology methodology SIPI meditation research ethnography neurophenomenology
references & reading co-researchers lectures sampling experience

                                                                                                                                                              University of Ljubljana
COMBINED REFERENCES
Depraz, N., Varela, F. J. & Vermersch, P. (Eds.). (2003). On becoming aware: A pragmatics of experiencing. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
Hurlburt, R. T. (2011). Investigating Pristine Inner Experience: Moments of Truth. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
Hurlburt, R. T., Alderson-Day, B., Kühn, S., &; Fernyhough, C. (2016). Exploring the ecological validity of thinking on demand: neural correlates of elicited vs. spontaneously occurring inner speech. PLoS One, 11(2), e0147932.
Kordeš, U. & Klauser, F. (2016). Second-person in-depth phenomenological inquiry as an approach for studying enaction of beliefs. Interdisciplinary Description of Complex Systems: INDECS, 14(4), 369-377.
Petitmengin, C. (2006). Describing one’s subjective experience in the second person: An interview method for the science of consciousness. Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences, 5(3–4), 229–269.
Varela F. J., Thompson E. & Rosch E. (1991). The embodied mind. Cognitive science and human experience. MIT Press, Cambridge MA.
Varela, F. J. (1996). Neurophenomenology: A methodological remedy for the hard problem. Journal of consciousness studies, 3(4), 330–349.

FURTHER READING
Kordeš, U. (2015). A better metaphor for understanding consciousness? Interdisciplinary Description of Complex Systems, 13(4), 525-533.
Kordeš, U. (2016). Going beyond theory: Constructivism and empirical phenomenology. Constructivist Foundations, 11(2), 375–385.
Kordeš, U. & Demšar, E. (2018a). Excavating belief about past experience: experiential dynamics of the reflective act. Constructivist Foundations, 13(2), 219–229.
Kordeš, U. & Demšar, E. (2018b). Authors’ response: If first-person knowledge is excavated, what kind of research follows?. Constructivist Foundations, 13(2), 241–249.
Kordeš, U. & Demšar, E. (2019). A long overdue encounter of constructivism and cognitive science. In: Hug, T., Mitterer, J. & Schorner, M. (Eds.), Radikaler Konstruktivismus : Vergangenheit, Gegenwart und Zukunft : Ernst von Glasersfeld (1917-2010) (pp. 411-429). Innsbruck: Innsbruck university press.
Kordeš, U. (2019). Horizons of analysis. Constructivist Foundations, 14(2), 149–152.
Kordes, U., Oblak, A., Smrdu, M., & Demšar, E. (2019). Ethnography of Meditation: An Account of Pursuing Meditative Practice as a Tool for Researching Consciousness. Journal of Consciousness Studies, 26(7-8), 184-237.
Kordeš, U., & Demšar, E. (2021). Being there when it happens: A novel approach to sampling reflectively observed experience. New Ideas in Psychology, 60, 100821.