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Flavours of Thought: Towards A Phenomenology of Food-Related Experiences

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  • Fransisca Hok-Eng Tan

    (University of Vienna)

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Phenomenology, as the study of structures of subjective experiences and consciousness, finds itself in the persistent struggle to claim its rightful place in contemporary research. Accordingly, this article will point out the relevance of first person reports for interdisciplinary investigations of the brain and mind. This is done by exploring the multidisciplinary field of food studies as a novel platform for discussion. The phenomenological inquiry is thus proposed as the vehicle and method to access food-related experience. By highlighting the important surplus, essential to grasping the process of pristine inner experience we adjoin a new perspective to the common focus on the content of experience. Consequently, this will extend the current insights pertinent to food-related research and moreover, give vital implications to our overall construction of concepts in science.

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  • Fransisca Hok-Eng Tan, 2013. "Flavours of Thought: Towards A Phenomenology of Food-Related Experiences," Interdisciplinary Description of Complex Systems - scientific journal, Croatian Interdisciplinary Society Provider Homepage: http://indecs.eu, vol. 11(4), pages 400-414.
  • Handle: RePEc:zna:indecs:v:11:y:2013:i:4:p:400-414
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    Cited by:

    1. Megan F. Lee & Douglas Angus & Hayley Walsh & Sally Sargeant, 2023. "“Maybe it’s Not Just the Food?” A Food and Mood Focus Group Study," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 20(3), pages 1-12, January.
    2. Megan F. Lee & Joanne F. Bradbury & Jacqui Yoxall & Sally Sargeant, 2023. "“It’s about What You’ve Assigned to the Salad”: Focus Group Discussions on the Relationship between Food and Mood," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 20(2), pages 1-13, January.

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    Keywords

    phenomenological inquiry; food studies; experience; idiographic;
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    JEL classification:

    • D80 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - General
    • Z10 - Other Special Topics - - Cultural Economics - - - General

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