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    From individual to general experience
    Ratio 37 (1): 38-50. 2024.
    There has been some debate recently about whether we can come to know what an experience is like that we have not been through ourselves. Mostly, this debate focuses on general phenomenal knowledge. It is asked, for instance, whether we can come to know what it is like to be a refugee generally speaking (as opposed to being some specific refugee). In this paper, I want to add to this debate by trying to come to know how and to what extent someone who has been through the experience in question a…Read more
  • Philosophical Perspectives on Memory and Imagination (edited book)
    with Íngrid Vendrell Ferran
    Routledge. 2022.
    This book explores the structure and function of memory and imagination, as well as the relation and interaction between the two states. It is the first book to offer an integrative approach to these two emerging areas of philosophical research. The essays in this volume deal with a variety of forms of imagining and remembering. The contributors come from a range of methodological backgrounds: empirically minded philosophers, analytic philosophers engaging mainly in conceptual analysis, and phil…Read more
  •  5
    Philosophical Perspectives on Memory and Imagination (edited book)
    with Íngrid Vendrell Ferran
    Routledge. 2022.
    This book explores the structure and function of memory and imagination, as well as the relation and interaction between the two states. It is the first book to offer an integrative approach to these two emerging areas of philosophical research. The essays in this volume deal with a variety of forms of imagining and remembering. The contributors come from a range of methodological backgrounds: empirically minded philosophers, analytic philosophers engaging mainly in conceptual analysis, and phil…Read more
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    How Empathy With Fictional Characters Undermines Moral Self-Trust
    Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 79 (2): 245-250. 2021.
  •  29
    Commemorating Public Figures – In Favour of a Fictionalist Position
    Journal of Applied Philosophy (5): 793-806. 2020.
    In this article, I discuss the commemoration of public figures such as Nelson Mandela and Yitzhak Rabin. In many cases, our commemoration of such figures is based on the admiration we feel for them. However, closer inspection reveals that most (if not all) of those we currently honour do not qualify as fitting objects of admiration. Yet, we may still have the strong intuition that we ought to continue commemorating them in this way. I highlight two problems that arise here: the problem that the …Read more
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    Philosophical Perspectives on Memory and Imagination (edited book)
    with Íngrid Vendrell Ferran
    Routledge. 2022.
    This book explores the structure and function of memory and imagination, as well as the relation and interaction between the two states. It is the first book to offer an integrative approach to these two emerging areas of philosophical research. The essays in this volume deal with a variety of forms of imagining and remembering. The contributors come from a range of methodological backgrounds: empirically minded philosophers, analytic philosophers engaging mainly in conceptual analysis, and phil…Read more
  •  22
    Manners as Desire Management
    Journal of Value Inquiry 55 (1): 155-173. 2020.
  •  21
    Group Emotions and Group Epistemology
    In Laura Candiotto (ed.), The Value of Emotions for Knowledge, Springer Verlag. pp. 261-279. 2019.
    In this paper, I provide an analysis of the connection between shared emotions and shared epistemic states and undertakings. In so-doing, I aim to answer the following questions: In what sense do shared emotions help or hinder our epistemic enterprises? How do they shape the way that groups engage in these epistemic undertakings? In my analysis, I stress emotions are correlated with far-reaching changes in cognitive processing. I suggest that we should understand emotions within group contexts a…Read more
  • Musik, Emotion und Empathie
    In Susanne Schmetkamp & Magdalena Zorn (eds.), Variationen des Mitfühlens. Empathie in Musik, Literatur, Film und Sprache, Franz Steiner Verlag. pp. 53-64. 2018.
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    Thinking sadly: In favor of an adverbial theory of emotions
    Philosophical Psychology 29 (6): 799-812. 2016.
    Introspective as well as empirical evidence indicates that emotions shape our thinking in numerous ways. Yet, this modificatory aspect of emotions has received relatively little interest in the philosophy of emotion. I give a detailed account of this aspect. Drawing both on the work of William James and adverbialist conceptions of perception, I sketch a theory of emotions that takes these aspects into consideration and suggest that we should understand emotions as manners of thinking.
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    Wilke et al. make significant headway in gaining a better understanding of the influence affect cues may have on action perception and judgement. In our view their account also brings up a row of important questions demanding further research. This concerns the role of conceptual and non-conceptual content and the different effects emotions of the same valence may play in the perception and judgement of action