Under the title Motion in Experience, the phenomenon of movement is discussed as a trait of experience in a wide range of interpretations. Moving and being moved come into play not only as physical phenomena, but also as inner developmental movements. The aim of this issue is to foster a common and interdisciplinary reflection on the phenomenon of movement as a decisive moment of experience. Philosophy has been concerned with the phenomenon of movement since its inception. Ancient philosophy

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... sed the question of kinesthesia within the interpretation of nature and its laws, questioning the relationship between persistent being and movement as crucial key to understand life. Today, for the natural sciences the category of movement is still of great importance. It defines the physical access to perception, supports the explanation of nature and grounds the understanding of material processes. Movement correlates here with space, energy, and force and for this reason is essentially measurable. Human sciences such as psychology and pedagogy rely on this externalistic approach to movement, too. In contrast to this view, however, an alternative assessment of movement has been developed following the subjective turn in philosophy and the human sciences at the end of the 19th century. Movement is here seen as an internal phenomenon related to development, inner processuality, dynamic experience, emotion, and bodily expression. Disciplines like phenomenology, Gestalt theory, philosophy of life, or modern aesthetics understand movement in this latter sense with explicit reference to the subjective inner world. From an anthropological point of view, the body and the physical constitution of the human subject represent the medium of movement and open the field for a wide range of investigations. The present issue discusses these epistemological accounts of movement by confronting the externalist approach with the inner experienced perspective. The focus of the presented contributions lies on processuality, motivation and 1