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836Empathy in Nursing: A Phenomenological InterventionTetsugaku 5 23-39. 2021.Today, many philosophers write on topics of contemporary interest, such as emerging technologies, scientific advancements, or major political events. However, many of these reflections, while philosophically valuable, fail to contribute to those who may benefit the most from them. In this article, we discuss our own experience of engaging with nursing researchers and practicing nurses. By drawing on the field of philosophical phenomenology, we intervene in a longstanding debate over the meaning …Read more
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2491Basic Empathy: Developing the Concept of Empathy from the Ground UpInternational Journal of Nursing Studies 110. 2020.Empathy is a topic of continuous debate in the nursing literature. Many argue that empathy is indispensable to effective nursing practice. Yet others argue that nurses should rather rely on sympathy, compassion, or consolation. However, a more troubling disagreement underlies these debates: There’s no consensus on how to define empathy. This lack of consensus is the primary obstacle to a constructive debate over the role and import of empathy in nursing practice. The solution to this problem se…Read more
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78Husserl on HumeBritish Journal for the History of Philosophy 28 (3): 615-635. 2020.1. The aim of the present article is not to compare Hume’s and Husserl’s philosophy or to trace Hume’s influence on Husserl’s phenomenology in detail. Such tasks would clearly exceed the limits of...
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60The practice of phenomenology: The case of Max van ManenNursing Philosophy 21 (2). 2020.Since its inception, phenomenological philosophy has exerted an influence on empirical science. But what is the best way to practice, use and apply phenomenology in a non‐philosophical context? How deeply rooted in phenomenological philosophy must qualitative research be in order to qualify as phenomenological? How many of the core commitments of phenomenology must it accept? In the following contribution, I will take a closer look at Max van Manen's work. I will argue that van Manen's understan…Read more
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55How We FeelProtoSociology 35 117-134. 2018.This article engages critically with Margaret Gilbert’s proposal that joint commitments are necessary for collective emotions. After introducing Gilbert’s concept of joint commitment (Section 2), and the joint commitment account of collective emotions (Section 3), we argue in Section 4 that research from developmental psychology challenges the necessity of joint commitments for collective emotions. In that section, we also raise a more principled objection to Gilbert’s account, independently of …Read more
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92Thought insertion and disturbed for-me-ness (minimal selfhood) in schizophreniaConsciousness and Cognition 74 (C): 102770. 2019.
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149You, Me, and We: The Sharing of Emotional ExperiencesJournal of Consciousness Studies 22 (1-2): 84-101. 2015.When surveying recent philosophical work on the nature and status of collective intentionality and we-intentions, it is striking how much effort is spent on analysing the structure of joint action and on establishing whether or not the intention to, say, go for a walk or paint a house together is reducible to some form of I-intentionality. Much less work has been devoted to an analysis of shared affects and emotions. This is regrettable, not only because emotional sharing in all likelihood is de…Read more
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54Locked-In Syndrome: a Challenge to Standard Accounts of Selfhood and Personhood?Neuroethics 13 (2): 221-228. 2019.A point made repeatedly over the last few years is that the Locked-in Syndrome offers unique real-life material for revisiting and challenging certain ingrained philosophical assumptions about the nature of personhood and personal identity. Indeed, the claim has been made that a closer study of LIS will call into question some of the traditional conceptions of personhood that primarily highlight the significance of consciousness, self-consciousness and autonomy and suggest the need for a more in…Read more
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34Nuevos horizontes en filosofía de la mente. Entrevista al prof. Dan ZahaviEidos: Revista de Filosofía de la Universidad Del Norte 29 400-409. 2018.RESUMEN Esta entrevista tiene como objetivo mostrar los aportes de la fenomenología de Dan Zahavi a algunas temáticas fundamentales de filosofía de la mente. El filósofo danés expresa su interés en vincular la fenomenología con otras disciplinas y comenta su último proyecto, dedicado al vínculo intersubjetivo. Además, explica su posición con respecto a la naturalización de la fenomenología, la importancia de desarrollar una filosofía de la mente desde la perspectiva de primera persona, y la cues…Read more
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71Oxford Handbook of the History of Phenomenology (edited book)Oxford University Press. 2018.The Oxford Handbook of the History of Phenomenology contains thirty-seven new essays by leading scholars in the field. The essays all highlight historical influences, connections, and developments and provide an in-depth coverage of the development of phenomenology; one that allows for a better comprehension and assessment of the continuity as well as diversity of the phenomenological tradition. The handbook is divided into three distinct parts. The first part contains chapters that address the …Read more
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36Ownership, Memory, Attention: Commentary on GaneriAustralasian Philosophical Review 1 (4): 406-415. 2017.ABSTRACTIn my discussion of Ganeri's [2018] article, I first examine the sense of ownership: Is it post-hoc, backwards directed, and past-oriented? I then consider whether episodic memory, understood as a form of past-directed attention, has to be supplemented by another cognitive mechanism to allow for a sense of ownership, or whether attention in and of itself exemplifies a type of I-consciousness. In the final and most extensive part of my commentary, I discuss whether Ganeri is right in sugg…Read more
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28Manhattan Dynamite and no pancakes: Tradition and normality in the work of Tove JanssonSATS 19 (1): 5-19. 2018.It is not uncommon to read the Moomin tales through existentialist lenses. Although there might be natural reasons for focusing on and privileging the nine classical Moomin books, it would, however, be a mistake to overlook Jansson’s comic strips. This is so, not only because of the quality of Jansson’s drawings and because of the way she innovatively worked with and developed that graphic medium, but certainly also because of the stories they contain. When read alongside the books, the comic st…Read more
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72New Horizons in Philosophy of Mind. Interview with Prof. Dan ZahaviEidos: Revista de Filosofía de la Universidad Del Norte 29 400-409. 2018.Esta entrevista tiene como objetivo mostrar los aportes de la fenomenología de Dan Zahavi a algunas temáticas fundamentales de filosofía de la mente. El filósofo danés expresa su interés en vincular la fenomenología con otras disciplinas y comenta su último proyecto, dedicado al vínculo intersubjetivo. Además, explica su posición con respecto a la naturalización de la fenomenología, la importancia de desarrollar una filosofía de la mente desde la perspectiva de primera persona, y la cuestión del…Read more
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197Consciousness, Self-Consciousness, Selfhood: a Reply to some CriticsReview of Philosophy and Psychology 9 (3): 703-718. 2018.Review of Philosophy and Psychology has lately published a number of papers that in various ways take issue with and criticize my work on the link between consciousness, self-consciousness and selfhood. In the following contribution, I reply directly to this new set of objections and argue that while some of them highlight ambiguities in my work that ought to be clarified, others can only be characterized as misreadings.
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2175For-me-ness: What it is and what it is notIn D. Dahlstrom, A. Elpidorou & W. Hopp (eds.), Philosophy of mind and phenomenology, Routledge. pp. 36-53. 2016.The alleged for-me-ness or mineness of conscious experience has been the topic of considerable debate in recent phenomenology and philosophy of mind. By considering a series of objections to the notion of for-me-ness, or to a properly robust construal of it, this paper attempts to clarify to what the notion is committed and to what it is not committed. This exercise results in the emergence of a relatively determinate and textured portrayal of for-me-ness as the authors conceive of it.
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189Emotional sharing and the extended mindSynthese 196 (12): 4847-4867. 2019.This article investigates the relationship between emotional sharing and the extended mind thesis. We argue that shared emotions are socially extended emotions that involve a specific type of constitutive integration between the participating individuals’ emotional experiences. We start by distinguishing two claims, the Environmentally Extended Emotion Thesis and the Socially Extended Emotion Thesis. We then critically discuss some recent influential proposals about the nature of shared emotions…Read more
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13Alterity and Facticity: New Perspectives on Husserl (edited book)Springer. 1998.Husserl's phenomenology has often been criticized for its Cartesian, fundamentalistic, idealistic and solipsistic nature. Today, this widespread interpretation must be regarded as being outdated, since it gives but a very partial and limited picture of Husserl's thinking. The continuing publication of Husserl's research manuscripts has disclosed analyses which have made it necessary to revise and modify a number of standard readings. This anthology documents the recent development in Husserl res…Read more
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99Collective Intentionality and Plural Pre‐Reflective Self‐AwarenessJournal of Social Philosophy 49 (1): 61-75. 2018.
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37Husserl's Legacy: Phenomenology, Metaphysics, and Transcendental PhilosophyOxford University Press. 2017.Dan Zahavi presents a rich new study of the philosophy of Edmund Husserl, the founder of phenomenology. What kind of philosophical project was Husserl engaged in? What is ultimately at stake in so-called phenomenological analyses? In this volume Zahavi makes it clear why Husserl had such a decisive influence on 20th-century philosophy.
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76Beyond Empathy. Phenomenological Approaches to IntersubjectivitySantalka: Filosofija, Komunikacija 18 (1): 69-82. 2011.Drawing on the work of Scheler, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, Husserl and Sartre, this article presents an overview of some of the diverse approaches to intersubjectivity that can be found in the phenomenological tradition. Starting with a brief description of Scheler’s criticism of the argument from analogy, the article continues by showing that the phenomenological analyses of intersubjectivity involve much more than a ‘solution’ to the ‘traditional’ problem of other minds. Intersubjectivity doesn…Read more
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315Brain, Mind, World: Predictive Coding, Neo-Kantianism, and Transcendental IdealismHusserl Studies 34 (1): 47-61. 2018.Recently, a number of neuroscientists and philosophers have taken the so-called predictive coding approach to support a form of radical neuro-representationalism, according to which the content of our conscious experiences is a neural construct, a brain-generated simulation. There is remarkable similarity between this account and ideas found in and developed by German neo-Kantians in the mid-nineteenth century. Some of the neo-Kantians eventually came to have doubts about the cogency and interna…Read more
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13Fenomenologia a projekt naturalizacjiAvant: Trends in Interdisciplinary Studies 2 (T). 2011.[Phenomenology and the project of naturalization] In recent years more and more people have started talking about the necessity of reconciliating phenomenology with the project of naturalization. Is it possible to bridge the gap between phenomenological analyses and naturalistic models of consciousness? Is it possible to naturalize phenomenology? In their long introduction to the book Naturalizing Phenomenology published by Stanford University Press in 1999, the four co-editors, Jean Petitot, Fr…Read more
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58Husserl, self and others: an interview with Dan ZahaviAvant: Trends in Interdisciplinary Studies 3 (1): 114-122. 2012.
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24Złożona jaźń: Perspektywy empiryczne i teoretyczneAvant: Trends in Interdisciplinary Studies 2 (T): 59-75. 2011.[The Complex Self: Empirical and theoretical perspectives] I have throughout this paper emphasized the complexity of the self. This complexity necessitates interdisciplinary collaboration; collaboration across the divide between theoretical analysis and empirical investigation. To think that a single discipline, be it philosophy or neuroscience, should have a monopoly on the investigation of self is merely an expression of both arrogance and ignorance.
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8Hidden Resources: Classical Perspectives on Subjectivity (edited book)Imprint Academic. 2004.Dan Zahavi, the editor of this collection, heads the Center for Subjectivity Research, at the University of Copenhagen. The essays reflect the interests of the Center and seek to address the following issue: To what extent can the current discussion of consciousness in mainstream cognitive science and analytical philosophy of mind profit from insights drawn from the investigations of subjectivity found in the Kantian and post-Kantian tradition as well as in the phenomenological and hermeneutical…Read more
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89First-person thoughts and embodied self-awareness: Some reflections on the relation between recent analytical philosophy and phenomenologyPhenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences 1 (1): 7-26. 2002.The article examines some of the main theses about self-awareness developed in recent analytic philosophy of mind (especially the work of Bermúdez), and points to a number of striking overlaps between these accounts and the ones to be found in phenomenology. Given the real risk of unintended repetitions, it is argued that it would be counterproductive for philosophy of mind to ignore already existing resources, and that both analytical philosophy and phenomenology would profit from a more open e…Read more
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21First-person thoughts and embodied self-awareness: Some reflections on the relation between recent analytical philosophy and phenomenologyPhenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences 1 (1): 7-26. 2002.The article examines some of the main theses about self-awareness developed in recent analytic philosophy of mind (especially the work of Bermúdez), and points to a number of striking overlaps between these accounts and the ones to be found in phenomenology. Given the real risk of unintended repetitions, it is argued that it would be counterproductive for philosophy of mind to ignore already existing resources, and that both analytical philosophy and phenomenology would profit from a more open e…Read more
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2Understanding (other) minds : Wittgenstein's phenomenological contributionIn Edoardo Zamuner & David Kennedy Levy (eds.), Wittgenstein’s Enduring Arguments, Routledge. 2008.
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1Philosophical theories of consciousness: Continental perspectivesIn Morris Moscovitch, Philip Zelazo & Evan Thompson (eds.), Cambridge Handbook of Consciousness, Cambridge University Press. 2007.
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