This talk is devoted to the relationship of computational phenomenology (the application of formal tools from computational modelling to account for phenomenology) and mathematical phenomenology (the use of mathematical tools to describe or represent phenomenology). In the first part of the talk, I argue (perhaps unsurprisingly) that computational phenomenology presupposes mathematical phenomenology, and discuss what work on the methodological foundations of mathematical phenomenology (specifically, on the question of truth conditions of ascriptions of mathematical structure to conscious experiences—aka “How to do mathematical phenomenology?”) might bring to computational phenomenology. In the second part of the talk, I consider a particularly noteworthy example from computational phenomenology, often called pre-reflective self-awareness—the awareness of being aware—and consider its implications on the methodological foundations of mathematical phenomenology.

Full title: Computational Phenomenology, Mathematical Phenomenology and Pre-Reflective Self-Awareness

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