ABSTRACT
Consciousness, subjectivity and experience are the domain of phenomenology, a philosophical discipline that attempts to understand the givenness of experience and the elements that constitute it (phenomenon comes from a Greek word meaning 'to appear'). When philosophers, scholars and the occasional layperson use the term 'phenomenology,' they often refer to different things. In its loosest sense, the term denotes introspection, the act of paying attention to one's experience. Phenomenology has played and continues to play an important role in the study of movement and movement perception. Phenomenology has a long history of considering movement 'from the inside,' and much of it is centred on kinaesthesia and kinaesthetic experience. What phenomenology offers, in turn, is the ability to investigate the operations of movement and movement observation in dynamic, intercorporeal situations. When phenomenology and cognitive science engage in dialogue, the study of movement, movement perception and other cognitive actions reaches above and beneath the threshold of consciousness.
