Michelle Montagu is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Texas at Austin.

As well as publishing extensively in phenomenology and philosophy of mind, Michelle is also the author of non-propositional intentionality,

cognitive phenomenology and our focus for this episode, her 2016 book, The Given, Experience and its Content.

This episode is all about what some philosophers have called the given, that is, what is given to us in our immediate experience.

From Aristotle to Hume, philosophers have tried to

account for the categories, types and distinctions within the mind. Michelle's work continues

in this tradition. However, it takes a new and exciting turn away from the orthodox positions

in philosophy of mind. She thinks that phenomenology comes first, that phenomenology is responsible for our mind's ability to represent the world,

and that there are many more types of phenomenology that we've currently admitted.

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description in part one we're going to be discussing the given and in part two we're

going to be engaging in some further analyses and discussion Hello and welcome to episode 64 of the Panpsychast. I'm the sensory, Jack Symes. I'm joined once again by the cognitive Dr. Gregory Miller.

Hello.

The evaluative Mr. Oli-M And the, I forgot to write a joke, Michelle Montague. Hello. Thank you for joining us,

Michelle. Thank you for having me. So to start off, Michelle, we're going to start off with the question

we ask all of our guests. What is philosophy? Well, I think I can begin with the answer I gave my mom

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