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This collection of essays examines the instrumental role of intersubjectivity in Husserl's philosophy, and then develops a method, informed by Husserl's own approach, as a way to resolve contemporary philosophical issues.
List of contents
Introduction
Frode Kjosavik, Christian Beyer, and Christel Fricke
1. Husserl’s Phenomenology of Intersubjectivity
Iso Kern
Part I: Intersubjectivity – Meaning and Methodology
2. Husserl on (Intersubjective) Constitution
Christian Beyer
3. Intersubjectivity: In Virtue of Noema, Horizon, and Life-World
David Woodruff Smith
4. On Husserl’s Genetic Method of Constitutive Deconstruction and Its Application in Acts of Modified Empathy into Children’s Minds
Eduard Marbach
Part II: Particular Others and Open Intersubjectivity
5. On Knowing the Other’s Emotions
Leila Haaparanta
6. What is Empathy?
Søren Overgaard
7. Anonymity of the ‘Anyone.’ The Associative Depths of Open Intersubjectivity
Joona Taipale
Part III: Communication and Community
8. Intersubjectivity, Phenomenology, and Quine’s Philosophy of Language
Dagfinn Føllesdal
9. From Empathy to Sympathy. On the Importance of Love in the Experience of the Other
Mariano Crespo
10. Intersubjectivity and Embodiment
David Carr
11. Husserl on the Common Mind
Emanuele Caminada
Part IV: Normality and Objectivity – The Life-World, the Sciences, and Beyond
12. Constructivism in Epistemology – On the Constitution of Standards of Normality
Christel Fricke
13. On the Origins of Scientific Objectivity
Mirja Hartimo
14. Husserl on Intersubjectivity and the Status of Scientific Objectivity
Frode Kjosavik
15. Models, Science, and Intersubjectivity
Harald Wiltsche
About the author
Frode Kjosavik is Professor of Philosophy at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences. He was a group leader in Philosophy at the Centre for Advanced Study at the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, 2015/16. Publications include articles on Kant, Husserl, the philosophy of mathematics and the philosophy of biology.
Christian Beyer is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Göttingen. He was Heisenberg Fellow of the German Research Foundation, Associated Fellow at the Lichtenberg-Kolleg (Göttingen) and Fellow at the Centre for Advanced Studies (Oslo). He authored
Von Bolzano zu Husserl (1996),
Intentionalität und Referenz (2000),
Subjektivität, Intersubjektivität, Personalität (2006).
Christel Fricke is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Oslo, Norway. She was the founding director of the Centre for the Study of Mind in Nature. She edited
The Ethics of Forgiveness (Routledge, 2011);
Intersubjectivity and Objectivity in Adam Smith and Edmund Husserl (with Dagfinn Føllesdal, Ontos Verlag, 2012).
Summary
This collection of essays examines the instrumental role of intersubjectivity in Husserl’s philosophy, and then develops a method, informed by Husserl’s own approach, as a way to resolve contemporary philosophical issues.
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"The essays in this book make important contributions to issues that are current both within and across analytic and phenomenological philosophy. Importantly, the book also helps blur the (artificial) distinction between Analytic and Continental philosophy. The essays are written from a phenomenological perspective with analytic rigor, clarity, and absence of unexplained jargon. They will be accessible to analytic and phenomenological philosophes alike and also to sociologists, psychologists, and other scholars working in these areas." – Ronald McIntyre, California State University, Northridge
"This volume is a much welcome addition to the growing research on Husserl’s theory of intersubjectivity. It gathers an impressive roaster of internationally leading experts from both the analytic and continental tradition within Husserl scholarship. Thus, it succeeds in bridging the notorious continental/analytic divide and forcefully brings Husserl’s intricate theory of sociality to bear on a range of topics and disciplines of contemporary relevance." – Thomas Szanto, University of Copenhagen
