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6Introduction: Affect, Tendency, Drive—Perspectives on the Basic Structures of IntentionalityHuman Studies 1-11. forthcoming.
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13Desiring to Know: Curiosity as a Tendency toward DiscoveryHuman Studies 1-21. forthcoming.Both the commonsensical and the philosophical understanding of curiosity as the desire to know display similar ambiguities. In philosophy, such ambiguities have further repercussions, inasmuch as inquiries into curiosity, in addition to being a field of philosophical research in itself, also have meta-theoretical implications concerning the idea of philosophy one embraces. This holds true for Edmund Husserl’s discussion of curiosity: his phenomenological analysis of curiosity as an object of inq…Read more
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9Spatio-temporal Intertwining: Husserl's Transcendental AestheticImprint: Springer. 2014.This volume explores Husserl's theory of sensibility and his conceptualization of spatial and temporal constitution. The author maps the linkages between Husserl's 'transcendental aesthetic', the theory of pure experience in empirio-criticism, as well as Immanuel Kant's transcendental philosophy. The core argument in this analysis centers on the relationship between spatiality and temporality in Husserl's philosophy. The study interrogates Husserl's understanding of the relationship between spat…Read more
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11Das Exemplarische – Orientierung für menschliches Wissen und Handeln (edited book)mentis. 2021.English summary: In philosophy, examples are usually employed as illustrations of already determined abstract or general thoughts. In contrast to this view, the contributions of this volume focus on the exemplary and normative function of examples, as guides in order to find a not yet given universal or generality. German description: Der Band diskutiert die theoretische und praktische Bedeutung des Exemplarischen als ein Individuelles, das selbst als Manifestation eines Allgemeinen verstanden w…Read more
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25Phenomenological explanation: towards a methodological integration in phenomenological psychopathologyPhenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences 22 (3): 719-741. 2023.Whether, and in what sense, research in phenomenology and phenomenological psychopathology has—in addition to its descriptive and hermeneutic value—explanatory power is somewhat controversial. This paper shows why it is legitimate to recognize such explanatory power. To this end, the paper analyzes two central concerns underlying the debate about explanation in phenomenology: (a) the warning against reductionism, which is implicit in a conception of causal explanation exclusively based on models…Read more
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15Correction to: Phenomenology of imagining and the pragmatics of fictional languageContinental Philosophy Review 55 (3): 405-406. 2022.
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28How are fictions given? Conjoining the ‘artifactual theory’ and the ‘imaginary-object theory’Synthese 199 (5-6): 13749-13769. 2021.According to the so-called ‘artifactual theory’ of fiction, fictional objects are to be considered as abstract artifacts. Within this framework, fictional objects are defined on the basis of their complex dependence on literary works, authors, and readership. This theory is explicitly distinguished from other approaches to fictions, notably from the imaginary-object theory. In this article, I argue that the two approaches are not mutually exclusive but can and should be integrated. In particular…Read more
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34Phenomenology of imagining and the pragmatics of fictional languageContinental Philosophy Review 53 (4): 465-486. 2020.This paper focuses on the performative character of fictional language. While assuming that all speaking is a form of acting, it aims to shed light on the nature of fictional, and particularly literary, speech acts. To this aim, relevant input can be found in the discussion of the ontological status of fictional entities and of their constitution and in the inquiry into the interaction between author and receiver of a fictional work. Based on the critical assessment of different approaches in th…Read more
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25Über Normalität und Abweichung: Ein responsiver AnsatzDeutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie 68 (1): 79-100. 2020.This article aims to highlight the relevance of Bernhard Waldenfels’ responsive phenomenology for questions related to normality and to the different kinds of deviation from what is taken tobe normal. The article begins with a discussion of two limit cases in the understanding of the concepts of normality and deviation: a strictly normative understanding, according to which each deviation is norm-deviation, and a descriptive understanding, according to which deviation is what underlies individua…Read more
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24Is This Self-Evident? Husserl’s Phenomenological Method and the Psychopathology of Common SenseRivista Internazionale di Filosofia e Psicologia 3 (2): 191-207. 2012.Il presente articolo si propone di mettere in luce la rilevanza teorica della fenomenologia per la psicopatologia. A tal fine, l’argomentazione sarà focalizzata sul lavoro dello psichiatra tedesco Wolfgang Blankenburg. Nel concepire e sviluppare la sua cosiddetta “psicopatologia del senso comune”, Blankenburg fa costantemente appello alla fenomenologica husserliana ed instaura con essa un dialogo proficuo sul piano teorico ed epistemologico. Questo confronto consente a Blankenburg, da un lato, d…Read more
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24Is Make-Believe Only Reproduction?Social Imaginaries 5 (1): 97-119. 2019.This paper develops an analysis of the relation between fiction and make-believe based on the achievements of imagination. The argument aims at a “reciprocal supplementation” between two approaches to fiction. According to one approach, pretense or make-believe structures play a crucial role in our experience of fiction. Discussing Husserl’s view on bound imagining and Walton’s account of fiction as make-believe, I show why pretense and make-believe cannot thereby be reduced to the mere reproduc…Read more
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38The aim of this article is to develop a phenomenological analysis of pretense. In different forms of pretense, something we take to be fictive is somehow transposed into a context that we experience as real. Due to this ‘transposition’, the context itself, under certain respects, becomes unreal or fictional. When we ‘live’ in a pretense context, we bracket or conceal what we take for real. Departing from both meta-representational and simulationist approaches, the phenomenological interpretation…Read more
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13Addresses for correspondenceIn Sabine C. Koch, Thomas Fuchs, Michela Summa & Cornelia Müller (eds.), Body Memory, Metaphor and Movement, John Benjamins. pp. 453. 2012.
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28Self-experience in DementiaRivista Internazionale di Filosofia e Psicologia 6 (2): 387-405. 2015.This paper develops a phenomenological analysis of the disturbances of self-experience in dementia. After considering the lack of conceptual clarity regarding the notions of self and person in current research on dementia, we develop a phenomenological theory of the structure of self-experience in the first section. Within this complex structure, we distinguish between the basic level of pre-reflective self-awareness, the episodic sense of self, and the narrative constitution of the self. In the…Read more
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22Ein sinnloses Gewühl? Die Hypothese des Chaos und ihre Implikationen bei Kant und HusserlIn Peter Remmers & Christoph Asmuth (eds.), Ästhetisches Wissen: Zwischen Sinnlichkeit Und Begriff, De Gruyter. pp. 189-210. 2015.
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Empathy and Anti-Empathy: Which Are the Problems?In Dermot Moran & Elisa Magrì (eds.), Empathy, Sociality, and Personhood: Essays on Edith Stein’s Phenomenological Investigations, Springer Verlag. 2017.
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13Merleau-Ponty: Penser sans dualismes aujourd'huiRivista di Storia Della Filosofia 65 (1): 159-162. 2010.
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Zwischen Erinnern und Vergessen. Implizites Leibgedächtnis und das Selbst am Beispiel der Demenz-ErkrankungenPhänomenologische Forschungen 1 163-182. 2011.
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43Imagination and Social Perspectives: Approaches From Phenomenology and Psychopathology (edited book)Routledge. 2017.This book investigates the phenomenon of perspectival flexibility in its different facets and with particular attention to social experience. Our experience of other individuals goes hand in hand with the awareness that they have a unique perspective on the experienced objects and situations. The same object can be seen from different points of view; an event can awaken different emotional reactions in different individuals; and the positions we take can be mediated in part by our belonging to s…Read more
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54Dominique Pradelle: Par-delà la révolution copernicienne. Sujet transcendantal et facultés chez Kant et Husserl: Paris: PUF, 2012, 407 Seiten. ISBN 978-2-13-059056-9, € 32 (review)Husserl Studies 30 (1): 89-99. 2014.Das Verhältnis zwischen Husserl und Kant zählt zu den kontroversesten Themen im Bereich systematischer Forschung zur Transzendentalphilosophie. Dieses Verhältnis ist unter anderem deshalb kompliziert, weil Husserl relativ ambivalent über Kants Philosophie urteilt. Einerseits betrachtet er Kant als den Entdecker der Transzendentalphilosophie und somit auch als Vorläufer der transzendentalen Phänomenologie. Andererseits äußert er sich gegenüber bestimmten Aspekten der Philosophie Kants, die er als…Read more
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46Toward a transcendental account of creativity. Kant and Merleau-Ponty on the creative power of judgment and creativity as institutionContinental Philosophy Review 50 (1): 105-126. 2016.Several works published in the last decades defend the claim that the concept of creativity should be demystified. With the aim of showing that creativity is not an obscure power owned by only few individuals and free from constraints, authors working at the intersection field between philosophy and cognitive science have notably focused on the structure and evolution of cognitive mechanisms underlying our creative capacities. While taking up the suggestion that we should try not to mystify crea…Read more
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29Body memoryIn Sabine C. Koch, Thomas Fuchs, Michela Summa & Cornelia Müller (eds.), Body Memory, Metaphor and Movement, John Benjamins. pp. 417. 2012.
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30Ein Philosoph der Endlichkeit: Neue Literatur zu Hans-Georg GadamerPhilosophische Rundschau 58 (1): 45. 2011.
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109Body Memory, Metaphor and Movement (edited book)John Benjamins. 2012.Body Memory, Metaphor and Movement is an interdisciplinary volume with contributions from philosophers, cognitive scientists, and movement therapists. Part one provides the phenomenologically grounded definition of body memory with its different typologies. Part two follows the aim to integrate phenomenology, conceptual metaphor theory, and embodiment approaches from the cognitive sciences for the development of appropriate empirical methods to address body memory. Part three inquires into the f…Read more
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78The disoriented self. Layers and dynamics of self-experience in dementia and schizophreniaPhenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences 13 (3): 477-496. 2014.This paper explores the question concerning the relationship between basic and higher layers of experience and self-experience. The latter distinction implicitly presupposes the idea of a univocal foundation. After explaining the formal ontological law of foundation, an attempt is made to clarify how the idea of foundation may be suitable to understand the relationship among moments, or layers, of self-experience. To this aim, the phenomenological descriptions of self- and world-experience in de…Read more
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37Body memory and the genesis of meaningIn Sabine C. Koch, Thomas Fuchs, Michela Summa & Cornelia Müller (eds.), Body Memory, Metaphor and Movement, John Benjamins. pp. 84--23. 2012.
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Merleau-ponty. Thinking without dualism todayRivista di Storia Della Filosofia 65 (1): 159-162. 2010.
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24Dynamic Embodimnet and its functional role. A body feedback perspectiveIn Sabine C. Koch, Thomas Fuchs, Michela Summa & Cornelia Müller (eds.), Body Memory, Metaphor and Movement, John Benjamins. 2012.