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91PhenomenologyIn Morris Moscovitch, Philip Zelazo & Evan Thompson (eds.), Cambridge Handbook of Consciousness, Cambridge University Press. 2007.Current scientific research on consciousness aims to understand how consciousness arises from the workings of the brain and body, as well as the relations between conscious experience and cognitive processing. Clearly, to make progress in these areas, researchers cannot avoid a range of conceptual issues about the nature and structure of consciousness, such as the following: What is the relation between intentionality and consciousness? What is the relation between self-awareness and consciousne…Read more
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351Phenomenological approaches to self-consciousnessStanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. 2008.On the phenomenological view, a minimal form of self-consciousness is a constant structural feature of conscious experience. Experience happens for the experiencing subject in an immediate way and as part of this immediacy, it is implicitly marked as my experience. For the phenomenologists, this immediate and first-personal givenness of experiential phenomena must be accounted for in terms of a pre-reflective self-consciousness. In the most basic sense of the term, selfconsciousness is not somet…Read more
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22The embodied self-awareness of the infant: A challenge to the theory of mind?In Dan Zahavi, T. Grunbaum & Josef Parnas (eds.), The Structure and Development of Self-Consciousness: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, John Benjamins. 2004.This was originally written and presented at the National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar for College Teachers on Folk Psychology vs. Mental Simulation: How Minds Understand Minds, run by Robert Gordon at the University of Missouri - St. Louis, June-July 1999. It has been only lightly revised since, and should be considered a rough draft. Needless to say, the ideas herein owe a lot to what I learned at the seminar from Robert Gordon and the other participants, particularly Jim Garson…Read more
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104Being You — Or Not: A Challenge for Garfield and SethJournal of Consciousness Studies 31 (5): 206-220. 2024.In recent publications, Jay Garfield and Anil Seth have both written about the you. Whereas Garfield is a Buddhist scholar who advocates a no-self view, Seth is a neuroscientist who defends a radical form of representationalism. But is it really possible to speak meaningfully of a you (and of a we) if one denies the existence of the self, and if one declares the world of experience a neuronal fantasy? In the following, I will criticize both accounts. I will argue that they both, in different way…Read more
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A Fenomenologia e o desafio do NaturalismoPhainomenon 17 (1): 315-334. 2008.Whereas 20 or 30 years ago one might have been inclined to characterize the development of 20th century philosophy in terms of a linguistic turn, a turn from a philosophy of subjectivity to a philosophy of language, it might today be more apt to describe the development in terms of a turn from anti-naturalism to naturalism. But insofar as naturalists consider the scientific account of reality authoritative, a commitment to naturalism is bound to put pressure on the idea that philosophy can make …Read more
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2¿El final de qué? Fenomenología vs. realismo especulativoInvestigaciones Fenomenológicas 18 208-236. 2021.La fenomenología ha sido atacada recientemente por los promotores del realismo especulativo. En este artículo presento y analizo estas críticas, y argumento que, o bien son superficiales y simplistas, o bien carecen de novedad.Key words: Phenomenology, speculative realism, correlationism, idealism, naturalism.
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61I, You, and We: Beyond Individualism and CollectivismAustralasian Philosophical Review. forthcoming.The contemporary debate on collective intentionality in analytic philosophy has lasted several decades, but questions concerning the nature of ‘we’ and the relation between the individual and the community are obviously far older. We can find a particularly rich discussion in early phenomenology. Indeed, while starting out with an interest in the individual mind, phenomenologists began their exploration of dyadic forms of interpersonal relations shortly before the start of World War I and were a…Read more
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Mindless obfuscation : a reply to Depraz, Petitmengin and BitbolIn Susi Ferrarello & Christos Hadjioannou (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Phenomenology of Mindfulness, Routledge. 2023.
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56The unity and plurality of sharingPhilosophical Psychology. forthcoming.Many accounts of collective intentionality target rather sophisticated types of cooperative activities, i.e., activities with complex goals that require prior planning and various coordinating and organizing roles. But although joint action is of obvious importance, an investigation of collective intentionality should not merely focus on the question of how we can share agentive intentions. We can act and do things together, but it is not obvious that the awe felt and shared by a group of Egypto…Read more
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Empathy and mirroring : Husserl and GalleseIn Roland Breeur & Ullrich Melle (eds.), Life, Subjectivity, and Art: Essays in honor of Rudolf Bernet, Springer Science+business Media. 2012.
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54Group‐identification, collectivism, and perspectival autonomySouthern Journal of Philosophy 61 (S1): 66-77. 2023.One of the aims of the 40th Annual Spindel Conference was to discuss whether the ongoing, but relatively distinct, investigations of relational autonomy and collective intentionality could crossfertilize. Whereas the concept of relational autonomy was developed to do justice to the relational character of selfhood, and as an alternative to traditional conceptions of autonomy, which were accused of exaggerating the self‐reliance and social independence of the self, recent discussions of collectiv…Read more
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109Observation, Interaction, Communication: The Role of the Second PersonAristotelian Society Supplementary Volume 97 (1): 82-103. 2023.Recent years have seen an upsurge of interest in the second-person perspective, not only in philosophy of mind, language, law and ethics, but also in various empirical disciplines such as cognitive neuroscience and developmental psychology. A distinctive and perhaps also slightly puzzling feature of this ongoing discussion is that whereas many contributors insist that a proper consideration of the second-person perspective will have an impact on our understanding of social cognition, joint actio…Read more
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1510. Intentionalität und Bewusstsein (V. Logische Untersuchung, §§ 1–21, Beilage der VI. Untersuchung)In Verena E. Mayer & Christopher Erhard (eds.), Edmund Husserl: Logische Untersuchungen, De Gruyter. pp. 139-157. 2008.
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Life, thinking and phenomenology in the early BergsonIn Michael R. Kelly (ed.), Bergson and phenomenology, Palgrave-macmillan. 2010.
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60From communication to communalization: a Husserlian accountContinental Philosophy Review 56 (3): 361-377. 2023.Husserl’s writings on sociality have received increasing attention in recent years. Despite this growing interest, Husserl’s reflections on the specific role of communication remain underexplored. In this paper, we aim to fill this gap by reconstructing the various ways in which Husserl draws systematic connections between communication and communalization. As will become clear, Husserl’s analysis converges with much more recent ideas defended by Margaret Gilbert and Naomi Eilan.
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Naturalized phenomenology : a desideratum or a category mistake?In Havi Carel & Darian Meacham (eds.), Phenomenology and Naturalism: Examining the Relationship Between Human Experience and Nature, Cambridge University Press. 2013.
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439Sociality and embodiment: online communication during and after Covid-19Foundations of Science 28 (4): 1125-1142. 2023.During the Covid-19 pandemic we increasingly turned to technology to stay in touch with our family, friends, and colleagues. Even as lockdowns and restrictions ease many are encouraging us to embrace the replacement of face-to-face encounters with technologically mediated ones. Yet, as philosophers of technology have highlighted, technology can transform the situations we find ourselves in. Drawing insights from the phenomenology of sociality, we consider how digitally-enabled forms of communica…Read more
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20Comment: Debating Empathy: Historical Awareness and Conceptual PrecisionEmotion Review 14 (3): 187-189. 2022.Emotion Review, Volume 14, Issue 3, Page 187-189, July 2022.
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174We in Me or Me in We? Collective Intentionality and SelfhoodJournal of Social Ontology 7 (1): 1-20. 2021.The article takes issue with the proposal that dominant accounts of collective intentionality suffer from an individualist bias and that one should instead reverse the order of explanation and give primacy to the we and the community. It discusses different versions of the community first view and argues that they fail because they operate with too simplistic a conception of what it means to be a self and misunderstand what it means to be (part of) a we. In presenting this argument, the article …Read more
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1Self-Awareness and Alterity: A Phenomenological InvestigationThe Personalist Forum 15 (2): 444-448. 1999.
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55Reflexivity, Transparency, and IllusionismProtoSociology 36 142-156. 2019.The notion of pre-reflective self-awareness is much more accepted today than 20 years ago and has become part of the standard repertoire in philosophy of mind. The notion’s increasing popularity has not surprisingly also led to an increasing amount of criticism. My focus in the present contribution will be on a particular radical objection that can be found in Jay Garfield’s book Engaging Buddhism. It seeks to undercut the appeal to pre-reflective self-awareness by arguing that there ultimately …Read more
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18On understanding schizophrenia philosophical and psychopathological perspectives on self-experienceIn Dan Zahavi (ed.), Exploring the Self: Philosophical and Psychopathological Perspectives on Self-experience, John Benjamins. pp. 23--97. 2000.
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55Phenomenology the BasicsRoutledge. 2018.Phenomenology: The Basics is a concise and engaging introduction to one of the dominant philosophical movements of the 20th century. This lively and lucid book provides an introduction to the essential phenomenological concepts that are crucial for understanding great thinkers such as Husserl, Heidegger, and Merleau-Ponty. Written by a leading expert in the field, Dan Zahavi examines and explains key questions such as: - What is a phenomenological analysis? - What are the methodological foundati…Read more
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13Mutual enlightenment and transcendental thoughtJournal of Consciousness Studies 18 (5-6): 169-175. 2011.
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IntroductionIn The Oxford handbook of contemporary phenomenology, Oxford University Press. 2012.Phenomenology shares the conviction that the critical stance proper to philosophy requires a move away from a straightforward metaphysical or empirical investigation of objects to an investigation of the very framework of meaning and intelligibility that makes any such straightforward investigation possible in the first place. It precisely asks how something like objectivity is possible in the first place. Phenomenology has also made important contributions to most areas of philosophy. Contempor…Read more