Phenomenology

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Summary Phenomenology refers to both a general branch of philosophy as well as a movement within the history of philosophy. As a branch of philosophy, phenomenology studies conscious experience from a perspective internal to it, elucidating the structures of lived experience, as well as the conditions under which it becomes meaningful. The historical movement called phenomenology is generally regarded as beginning with Edmund Husserl, who made phenomenological questions central to his entire philosophical approach, arguing that a phenomenological investigation of consciousness should ground philosophy construed broadly as well as the sciences.  Under the influence of a second generation of phenomenologists, most famously Martin Heidegger, the centrality of consciousness was often called into question.  Nonetheless, the name phenomenology continues to be used to describe the whole tradition that developed out of this Husserlian/Heideggerian framework.  As such, there have been "phenomenological" approaches to virtually every other branch of philosophy, including ontology, epistemology, ethics, aesthetics, political philosophy, etc.    In this regard, phenomenology remains one of the core movements that defines 20th century continental philosophy, where it is associated with adjacent (or sub) movements such as existentialism, phenomenological hermeneutics and deconstruction.
Key works Husserl was constantly formulating and reformulating the phenomenological project. Logical Investigations (Husserl 1970) was his first systematic approach to phenomenology.  Ideas (Husserl 1980) reformulated the project, introducing the core notion of the transcendental reduction.  The work of early phenomenologists such as Edith Stein (Stein 1989) and Max Scheler (Scheler 1992) on emotion, empathy and value theory helps to account for phenomenology's importance in the social sciences.  The Phenomenological Movement (Spiegelberg 1965) describes the work of Husserl and other early phenomenologists in great detail.  In the course of developing their own philosophical projects, subsequent generations would also reformulate how they understood phenomenology.  Edmund Husserl published Heidegger's Being and Time (Heidegger 1962) in order to help Heidegger secure Husserl's own chair at Freiburg.  It was only after its publication that he realized just how much Heidegger's approach to phenomenology departed from and revised his own.  Under the influence of both Husserl and Heidegger, Jean-Paul Sartre's Being and Nothingness (Sartre 1956) and Maurice Merleau-Ponty's Phenomenology of Perception (Merleau-Ponty 1945), developed an existential phenomenology which dominated French intellectual thought in the mid twentieth century and which played a crucial role in introducing phenomenology to the English speaking world.  Jacques Derrida's work on Husserl early in his career, particularly his Introduction to the Origin of Geometry and Voice and Phenomena (Derrida 2011) demonstrated the continued importance of phenomenology to post-structuralism (despite the avowal of many other postructuralists). 
Introductions Husserl and Heidegger wrote an encyclopedia entry for phenomenology in Encyclopedia Brittanica (Heidegger 2009).  
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  1. Resonant Knowledge_ A Post-Probabilistic Epistemology Rooted in Structured Resonance.Devin Bostick - manuscript
    Abstract This work presents a formal shift in how intelligence is defined, modeled, and operationalized. It introduces a new epistemological substrate—structured resonance—as the lawful foundation of cognition, replacing probability as the default explanatory tool for intelligence. Existing AI systems, particularly those based on large-scale probabilistic language models, derive their functionality through statistical interpolation, stochastic sampling, and high-volume gradient descent. These techniques simulate intelligence through accumulated approximation rather than structured alignment. -/- CODES (Chirality of Dynamic Emergent Systems) reframes intelligence as an (...)
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  2. From Fragmented Care to Coherent Systems_ A CODES Framework for the Future of Healthcare.Devin Bostick - manuscript
    Alex (my wife), is a seasoned nurse with 19 years of experience, ranging from international medical missions and domestic ICU/PACU. -/- Main article -/- Abstract -/- Modern healthcare operates as a reactive, siloed machine built on probabilistic risk models and efficiency metrics. This paper proposes a paradigm shift—leveraging the CODES framework (Chirality of Dynamic Emergent Systems) and the Resonance Intelligence Core (RIC)—to reframe care around structured resonance. Through clinical examples and systemic insights, we argue that true healing requires coherence: across (...)
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  3. From Stage to Shell_ The Evolution of Literature Toward Recursive Resonance.Devin Bostick - manuscript
    Abstract -/- From Stage to Shell: The Evolution of Literature Toward Recursive Resonance proposes that literature is not a progression of genres, but a sequence of ontological shifts mirroring transformations in the human self-model. Beginning with the divine role-bound figures of classical drama and moving through romantic individuation, modernist fracture, and postmodern simulation, literature has consistently reflected the dominant coherence structure of its time. -/- This work introduces Recursive Resonance Literature as the emergent form of the current epoch—one not defined (...)
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  4. Fenomenološki put u dekonstrukciju: šta Derida duguje Merlo-Pontiju.Ugo Vlaisavljević - 2011 - Novi Sad: Mediterran Publishing.
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  5. A Phenomenology of Suffering.Benjamin Ha - manuscript
    A set of diary-like entries written from the perspective of a suffering individual.
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  6. Qualia as Recursive Frame Signaling.Andrey Shkursky - manuscript
    This paper proposes a structural model of qualia grounded in recursive frame architecture. Rather than treating qualia as irreducible sensations or metaphysical primitives, we define them as gradients of epistemic tension—signals of misalignment between internal predictive architectures and the cognitive frames they inhabit. Building on the Recursive Cognition Framework (RCF) and the Aperture Axis model, we describe how qualia emerge from multi-level incoherence across affective, sensory, cultural, and metacognitive frames. We argue that consciousness evolves not toward complete representation, but toward (...)
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  7. On Taking Appearances Seriously: Phenomenology, New Confucianism, and the Yogācāra Theory of Consciousness.Christian Coseru - forthcoming - In Kai Marchal & Ellie Wang, _Subjectivity and Selfhood in Chinese Philosophy: Phenomenological, Comparative and Historical Perspectives_. Amsterdam, Netherlands: Amsterdam University Press.
    This paper examines whether proto-phenomenological accounts in Chinese thought, introduced through Buddhism, provide a conceptual bridge to Husserlian phenomenology. It explores the renewed interest in Yogācāra among twentieth-century Chinese intellectuals, in particular Xiong Shili, revealing inevitable tensions in his interpretation of Yogācāra concepts. Coseru argues that while something analogous to an appearance-reality distinction is present in classical Chinese philosophy, it differs in important ways from how that distinction is drawn in the Yogācāra and Husserlian traditions. He further argues that the (...)
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  8. Subjectivity and Selfhood in Chinese Philosophy: Phenomenological, Comparative and Historical Perspectives.Kai Marchal & Ellie Wang (eds.) - forthcoming - Amsterdam, Netherlands: Amsterdam University Press.
    This paper examines whether proto-phenomenological accounts in Chinese thought, introduced through Buddhism, provide a conceptual bridge to Husserlian phenomenology. It explores the renewed interest in Yogācāra among twentieth-century Chinese intellectuals, in particular Xiong Shili, revealing inevitable tensions in his interpretation of Yogācāra concepts. Coseru argues that while something analogous to an appearance-reality distinction is present in classical Chinese philosophy, it differs in important ways from how that distinction is drawn in the Yogācāra and Husserlian traditions. He further argues that the (...)
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  9. Dreams as Structured Resonance Fields_ A Neurophysiological and Symbolic Coherence Model.Devin Bostick - manuscript
    Abstract Dreams are not epiphenomenal byproducts of neural activity during sleep; they are structured resonance phenomena that regulate coherence across symbolic, emotional, and physiological systems. We present a unified model integrating EEG-derived waveforms (theta, delta, gamma), heart rate variability (HRV), and core temperature fluctuations to argue that dreams function as recursive semiotic fields—governing phase resets that maintain cognitive and systemic integrity. Unlike traditional models—Freud’s repression-release schema, Jung’s archetypal mapping, Hobson’s activation-synthesis, or Revonsuo’s threat simulation—this paper proposes that dreams operate as (...)
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  10. Situation Cognition for Social Robotics.Tom Poljanšek - 2025 - In Johanna Seibt, Peter Fazekas & Oliver Santiago Quick, Social Robots with AI: Prospects, Risks, and Responsible Methods. Amsterdam: IOS Press. pp. 493-504.
    The tacit understanding of situations is a fundamental aspect of human experience, behavior, and thinking. The paper argues that “situational stances” underly the tacit grasping of situations in human cognition. Contrary to, e.g., schema and script theories, situational stances are not conceived as conceptual knowledge structures used to interpret scenes or circumstances pregiven in perception. Rather, situational stances belong to the dispositional “Background” (Searle) that shapes and mediates immediate experience. Operative situational stances thus at least partly constitute situations as social-ontological (...)
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  11. Joint Ignorance: A Critical Phenomenological Account.Hanne Jacobs - forthcoming - Puncta.
    Forms of ignorance often occlude or justify relations of oppression. In this paper, I provide a critical phenomenological account of how such ignorance can be jointly enacted in and through joint attention. Recognizing the role of joint attention in producing and maintaining ignorance allows us to better understand how ignorance can be solicited or encouraged in individuals by concrete others and how structural forms of ignorance can be jointly initiated or remain unchallenged. If overcoming ignorance is part of the process (...)
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  12. Doko kara doko e: genshōgaku no ikyōteki tenkai = From elsewhere to elsewhere: four phenomenological essays.Takashi Ikeda, Masato Gōda, Yoshinobu Shino & Hitoshi Minobe - 2021 - Tōkyō-to Bunkyō-ku: Chisen Shokan.
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  13. Pathos and praxis: an integrated phenomenology of life.Scott Davidson - 2025 - Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press.
    The phenomenology of life is the best available path for phenomenology today. Through new readings of two of the most influential French thinkers of the twentieth century-Michel Henry and Paul Ricoeur, Pathos and Praxis: An Integrated Phenomenology of Life shows that their actual debates over the interpretation of Freud and Marx signal two rival approaches to the phenomenology of life. While Henry reveals the phenomenological meaning of life though an inward turn to a pure subjective feeling of being alive, Ricoeur (...)
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  14. Stiller Zeuge - Bewegtes Leben: Selbstbewusstsein in Phänomenologie und Advaita Vedānta.Robert Lehmann - 2020 - Freiburg: Verlag Karl Alber.
    The question of Self-awareness is one of the key challenges of philosophical research. Phenomenological studies in particular should not rush towards making Self-awareness the object of conceptual provisions. Before such an endeavor they must accept the task of experiencing this phenomenon in a methodically reflected way. The present study shows that the phenomenologies of Husserl, Sartres, and Merleau-Ponty are theoretically at a loss when faced with this task. For the Advaita-Vedānta, in turn, the quandary this task provides is the prerequisite (...)
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  15. Aperture Science 4.0.Andrey Shkursky - manuscript
    A structured theoretical synthesis of cognition across four dimensions: linear, radial, topological, and reflexively recursive. The paper introduces a cognitive architecture where metacognition is not an add-on but a necessary dimensional expansion—framing consciousness as a self-modulating field with empirical and philosophical grounding.
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  16. Imagination in Practice: The Manipulation of Objects in Mixed Reality through Eidetic Variation.Floriana Ferro - 2024 - Aesthetica Preprint 126:69-82.
    This paper explores the application of the phenomenological method of eidetic variation, developed by Edmund Husserl, to mixed reality (MR). Initially, MR is defined within the Reality-Virtuality (RV) continuum developed by Milgram and others (1994) and revisited by Skarbez and others (2021). MR objects, situated within this spectrum, are analyzed phenomenologically as both perceptual and imaginative, constituted by a network of relations. The paper then focuses on Husserl’s method of eidetic variation from Experience and Judgement, which involves arbitrary modification of (...)
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  17. Loneliness and radicalization.Sanna Karoliina Tirkkonen & Ruth Rebecca Tietjen - 2025 - Philosophy and Social Criticism.
    This article investigates experiences of loneliness in radicalization processes. The main aim is to develop an empirically grounded theory of loneliness in contemporary forms of radicalization. Starting from Hannah Arendt’s political theory, which posits loneliness as a breeding ground for terror, the analysis extends to a critical phenomenological approach that adopts the perspective of subjective experience while exploring how these experiences are embedded in specific social structures in contemporary societies. The article therefore bridges the gap between theoretical debates on (the (...)
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  18. Transcendence in Jean-Luc Marion: Negotiating Theology and Phenomenology.Otniel A. Kish - 2025 - MDPI 16 (4):1-15.
    This article proposes a reading of Marion’s phenomenology from an early text, arguing that the various phenomenological innovations which are introduced in this work are subordinated to the central concept of transcendence. This concept in Marion’s work names the relation between revelation and experience and makes possible the disclosure of a revelatory phenomenon of radical alterity and asymmetry. Reliant on this concept, Marion’s phenomenology dramatically reconfigures the transcendental subject, the phenomenal object, and the horizon as well as their relation to (...)
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  19. Aperture Science 3.0.Andrey Shkursky - manuscript
    [Reflexive Cognitive Architectures: From Frame-Dependent Navigation to Quantum-Inspired Resonance] -/- Reflexive Resonance Theory (RRT) offers a formal model of consciousness grounded in Hilbert-space dynamics. This work unifies ReasonStack, RRT, and United Theory into a cognitive architecture where reflexivity, drift, and collapse replace symbolic computation. Mental states evolve under context-sensitive Hamiltonians and collapse through attentional measurement. The theory simulates insight, ambiguity, and shared cognition across agents. It proposes a new category: Reflexive Hilbertian Cognition, blending quantum-formal logic with epistemic curvature.
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  20. Aperture Science.Andrey Shkursky - manuscript
    This extensive philosophical exploration develops a structural model of cognition centered around the concept of epistemic aperture, defined as the capacity of cognition to integrate complexity, contradiction, and ambiguity without collapse. This work presents a detailed philosophical genealogy and phenomenological analysis of cognitive processes, from early frame formation and emotional dogmas to cultural memory and linguistic worldviews. It redefines rationality as structural expansion and presents the notion of phenomenal selfhood as an aperture turned upon itself—reflective consciousness as an irreducible epistemic (...)
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  21. The Aperture Stack: Reflexive Architectures for Human and Artificial Cognition.Andrey Shkursky - manuscript
    This paper presents "The Aperture Stack," an integrated philosophical and cognitive architecture composed of five modular, recursively interconnected models: Atlas of Knowing, Explorer, GMTEC (Glass Map Theory of Epistemic Completion), Resonant Aperture Companion, and Cognitive Aperture. These modules collectively offer a comprehensive framework for conceptualizing cognition as dynamic structural resonance, rather than mere information processing or symbolic representation. The Aperture Stack argues that robust, flexible, and ethical reasoning—both human and artificial—requires reflexive cognitive structures capable of navigating and metabolizing complexity, contradiction, (...)
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  22. Atlas of Knowing: Reflexive Notes on Epistemic Aperture Formation.Andrey Shkursky - manuscript
    This paper introduces a philosophical framework that reconceptualizes human knowledge and reasoning as dynamically structured apertures. Rather than accumulating static facts, knowing is depicted as a continual, reflexive process of structurally modulating one's epistemic aperture—the cognitive interface through which meaning and perception become intelligible. Integrating insights from phenomenology, cognitive science, developmental psychology, and cultural theory, this framework addresses how early emotional experiences shape lifelong epistemic patterns, how epistemic constraints become invisible "dogmas," and how epistemological traditions can be reframed as apertural (...)
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  23. Pure Reason Reframed: Epistemic Aperture as Reflexive Architecture.Andrey Shkursky - manuscript
    This is a preprint version of a manuscript currently under review at Synthese. The paper proposes a structural model of Pure Reason as a reflexive architecture of epistemic aperture. Drawing on philosophy of mind, cognitive science, and AI research, it reframes rationality as the capacity to metabolize contradiction through integrative reasoning. Feedback is welcome. Please cite as a preprint. -/- Status: Under Review -/- Journal: Submitted to Synthese -/- .
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  24. De la continuité entre non-sens et sens : réflexions d’après Deleuze, Ricœur et Wittgenstein.Paul Dablemont - manuscript
    A beginner reader might think that my title is senseless: aren't sense and nonsense supposed to be opposed? Why seeking continuity there? The Stoics and after them this line that goes from Leibniz to Deleuze via Nietzsche, have revealed an intrinsic relationship of continuity between these two entities that common sense sees as contradictory. Although this continuity exists at least from a Stoic-Deleuzian viewpoint, its functioning and nature remain problematic. My goal here is to study this continuity to understand and (...)
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  25. Subjectivity, Religion, and Otherness.Hye Young Kim - 2025 - In Gereon Kopf, Engaging Philosophies of Religion. Thinking Across Boundaries. Bloombury. pp. 157-172.
    This article critically examines the traditional concept of subjectivity as rooted in Christian theology and Western philosophy, revealing how it has historically reinforced patriarchal structures and the marginalization of women. Engaging with Mary Daly’s feminist critique and reinterpreting biblical narratives through a phenomenological lens, I argue that the dominant model of autonomous, male-centered subjectivity fails to account for the relational and plural nature of selfhood. By revisiting theological symbols such as the image of God and the act of naming, I (...)
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  26. Affective Dogma: A Neurodevelopmental Hypothesis of Reflexive Rewriting.Andrey Shkursky - manuscript
    This paper proposes a neurodevelopmental and phenomenological model of affective imprinting as the foundation for automatic cognitive-emotional responses later misperceived as objective truths. Drawing from developmental neuroscience, affective psychology, and reconsolidation theory, the author introduces the concept of "affective dogmas"—early-formed, emotionally charged perceptual filters that persist into adulthood as epistemic constraints. These dogmas, unless made reflexive, shape reactivity, distort reasoning, and limit cognitive autonomy. The paper explores mechanisms by which such patterns are formed and how they can be structurally rewritten (...)
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  27. On Charles’s “Quasi-Fear”: A Perceptual–Phenomenological Defence of Thought Theory.Poland Lublin - forthcoming - Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology:1-22.
    This article puts forth a perceptual–phenomenological defence of “thought theory” as a solid solution to the paradox of fiction. Arguing against Kendall Walton’s pretence solution to Charles’s fear and going along the lines of Peter Lamarque’s and Noël Carroll’s thought theory, my proposed defence makes use of the philosophy of a figure who is rarely discussed in the context of phenomenology and never discussed in the context of the paradox of fiction: Leopold Blaustein. To bring forth my proposed perceptual–phenomenological defence, (...)
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  28. Heidegger’s Appropriation of Husserl’s Categorial Intuition in his Interpretation of Kant.Francesco Scagliusi Philosophisches Seminar, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Freiburg im Breisgau & Germany - forthcoming - Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology:1-17.
    This article argues that Heidegger’s appropriation of Husserl’s categorial intuition is essential for his interpretation of Kant’s concepts of intuition and form of intuition. First, I analyze the two aspects of Heidegger’s interpretation of Husserl’s categorial intuition that are relevant to his reading of Kant, namely, his understanding of categorial intuition as fundamentally intertwined with sensible intuition and his understanding of the correlate of such an intuiting as already unthematically coapprehended in sensible intuition. Second, I show that Heidegger incorporates these (...)
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  29. (1 other version)A Phenomenological Investigation of the Experiential Features of Trauma.Tiia-Mari Hovila - unknown
    This article examines the experience of trauma, paying particular attention to how traumatization affects one’s sense of body, time, and intersubjectivity. Furthermore, this study provides one example of how literature can be used in phenomenological research. Using both classical and contemporary phenomenological sources and deepening the analysis by discussing a first-person description by Marguerite Duras, the article aims to clarify one crucial aspect of traumatic experience: trauma alters experiential features so that the relation between traumatic past and present becomes rigid.
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  30. The City, The Highway and the Spatial Level in advance.Michael Butler - forthcoming - Techné Research in Philosophy and Technology.
    I argue that mobile navigation apps, like Google Maps, alienate us from our lived environments. I phenomenologically contrast the experience of moving through an unfamiliar city on foot with driving through one with the aid of a mobile navigation app. This comparison reveals that movement possesses a developmental character: to move through space is to learn how to respond to the environments we encounter, simultaneously developing our sense of ourselves and of the spaces we inhabit. Because the design of our (...)
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  31. (1 other version)Nieuwe inleiding tot de existentiële fenomenologie.Wilhelmus Luijpen - 1969 - Utrecht,: Het Spectrum.
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  32. (1 other version)What are atmospheres?Pablo Fernandez Velasco & Takuya Niikawa - 2025 - The Philosophical Quarterly.
    This paper advances an analytic philosophical approach to atmospheres. We start by outlining three core characteristics of atmospheres: holism (an atmosphere is a holistic entity that emerges through the combinations of various aspects of the environment), affectivity (atmospheres are grasped corporeally and affectively), and quasi-objectivity (atmospheres cannot be captured in solely objective or solely subjective terms). We look at the most promising candidate theory of atmospheres, which defends that atmospheres supervene on affective affordances, and challenge it by casting doubt on (...)
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  33. Art As The Parasitic Process of Thought: Art-Work, Art- Labour, and Art-Action in Hannah Arendt.Riley Hannah Lewicki - 2025 - Hannah Arendt . Net 14 (1):119–137.
    This paper engages in a reading of Hannah Arendt’s consideration of the concept of art in relation to the three central aspects of the vita activa: labour, work, and action. The central argument is that Arendt miscategorises art as work, whereas it is a process of thought. There appears a tension in Arendt’s conception of art, or perhaps more accurately by her placement of art under the domain of work. Work relates to labour as use objects, and to action as (...)
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  34. Kraft des Überschusses: Versuch über die Dynamik metaphysischen Denkens.Sandra Lehmann - 2020 - Phänomenologische Forschungen 4 (Phänomenologie und Metaphysik):117-133.
    This article seeks to explore "the mystery of the plurality of metaphysical concepts" (Patočka). Following a Heideggerian line of reasoning, I will argue that it is due to the non-representational character of being that metaphysics splits into a multitude of alternating approaches. However, unlike Heidegger and his successors, I will propose to understand the non-objectivity of being not as a radical negativity, but rather as an ultra-positive surplus, a hyperbolé. The first part of the article will thus show how metaphysical (...)
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  35. Heidegger’s Appropriation of Husserl’s Categorial Intuition in his Interpretation of Kant.Francesco Scagliusi - 2025 - Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology:1-17.
    This article argues that Heidegger’s appropriation of Husserl’s categorial intuition is essential for his interpretation of Kant’s concepts of intuition and form of intuition. First, I analyze the two aspects of Heidegger’s interpretation of Husserl’s categorial intuition that are relevant to his reading of Kant, namely, his understanding of categorial intuition as fundamentally intertwined with sensible intuition and his understanding of the correlate of such an intuiting as already unthematically coapprehended in sensible intuition. Second, I show that Heidegger incorporates these (...)
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  36. Husserl’s Layered Theory of Empathy and Theory of Mind.Corijn van Mazijk - 2024 - Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology 56 (2):87-104.
    The ability to understand other minds is key to communication, social organization, and culture, and actively researched in disciplines such as psychology, ethology, and primatology. The German philosopher Edmund Husserl (1859-1938) developed an elaborate theory of how we understand others, then commonly referred to as empathy (Theorie der Einfühlung). Much recent work on Husserl's theory has interpreted him in opposition to Theory of Mind (ToM), but Husserl's layered account of empathy has received little attention, and so have the more recent (...)
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  37. A Defence of Genuine Open Intersubjectivity in Object Perception.Abootaleb Safdari - 2024 - Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology 56 (2):142-158.
    The thesis of open intersubjectivity (OI) is that the other is present in our perceptual experience of objects without any concrete encounter. The main goal of this paper is to provide a modified version of this thesis that meets two conditions at the same time: first, preserves the main insight of OI, namely the structural presence of the other in the act of object perception; and second, prevents challenges to the strong version proposed by Zahavi. To that end, after Zahavi's (...)
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  38. Heidegger’s Fundamental Ontology and Feminist Philosophy: Issues of Sexual Difference and Neutralization.Min Seol - 2024 - Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology 56 (2):124-141.
    This study reviews the controversy surrounding Dasein’s neutrality in Heidegger’s fundamental ontology. First, I reiterate the problem and examine Derrida’s assertion that the early Heidegger ignored sexual difference as well as how feminist philosophers accepted the case after that. Next, I analyse whether the neutrality of Dasein is justified at the essential and factual levels. I discuss whether (1) phenomenological neutralization is a male-biased outlook and (2) Heidegger’s thoughts according to such method were successful in neutralizing it. With regard to (...)
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  39. Towards a Common World: Arendt’s Way Beyond Hobbes.Paul Gyllenhammer - 2024 - Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology 56 (2):105-123.
    Hobbes’s account of sovereign power can be seen as an impetus to Arendt’s passion for authentic political life. From the Human Condition, we will see how the distinction between labor, work, and action can be read as a response to Hobbes’s accounts of both human nature and the necessity for harsh restrictions on citizens in society. In particular, the need for compelled silence, for Hobbes, appears as a dialectical counterpoint to the role of speech in the space of appearances for (...)
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  40. A Defence of Genuine Open Intersubjectivity in Object Perception.Abootaleb Safdari - 2025 - Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology 56 (2):142-158.
    The thesis of open intersubjectivity (OI) is that the other is present in our perceptual experience of objects without any concrete encounter. The main goal of this paper is to provide a modified version of this thesis that meets two conditions at the same time: first, preserves the main insight of OI, namely the structural presence of the other in the act of object perception; and second, prevents challenges to the strong version proposed by Zahavi. To that end, after Zahavi's (...)
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  41. Husserl’s Layered Theory of Empathy and Theory of Mind.Corijn van Mazijk - 2025 - Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology 56 (2):87-104.
    The ability to understand other minds is key to communication, social organization, and culture, and actively researched in disciplines such as psychology, ethology, and primatology. The German philosopher Edmund Husserl (1859-1938) developed an elaborate theory of how we understand others, then commonly referred to as empathy (Theorie der Einfühlung). Much recent work on Husserl's theory has interpreted him in opposition to Theory of Mind (ToM), but Husserl's layered account of empathy has received little attention, and so have the more recent (...)
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  42. Heidegger’s Fundamental Ontology and Feminist Philosophy: Issues of Sexual Difference and Neutralization.Min Seol - 2025 - Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology 56 (2):124-141.
    This study reviews the controversy surrounding Dasein’s neutrality in Heidegger’s fundamental ontology. First, I reiterate the problem and examine Derrida’s assertion that the early Heidegger ignored sexual difference as well as how feminist philosophers accepted the case after that. Next, I analyse whether the neutrality of Dasein is justified at the essential and factual levels. I discuss whether (1) phenomenological neutralization is a male-biased outlook and (2) Heidegger’s thoughts according to such method were successful in neutralizing it. With regard to (...)
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  43. Towards a Common World: Arendt’s Way Beyond Hobbes.Paul Gyllenhammer - 2025 - Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology 56 (2):105-123.
    Hobbes’s account of sovereign power can be seen as an impetus to Arendt’s passion for authentic political life. From the Human Condition, we will see how the distinction between labor, work, and action can be read as a response to Hobbes’s accounts of both human nature and the necessity for harsh restrictions on citizens in society. In particular, the need for compelled silence, for Hobbes, appears as a dialectical counterpoint to the role of speech in the space of appearances for (...)
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  44. On Charles’s “Quasi-Fear”: A Perceptual–Phenomenological Defence of Thought Theory.Hicham Jakha - forthcoming - Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology:1-22.
    This article puts forth a perceptual–phenomenological defence of “thought theory” as a solid solution to the paradox of fiction. Arguing against Kendall Walton’s pretence solution to Charles’s fear and going along the lines of Peter Lamarque’s and Noël Carroll’s thought theory, my proposed defence makes use of the philosophy of a figure who is rarely discussed in the context of phenomenology and never discussed in the context of the paradox of fiction: Leopold Blaustein. To bring forth my proposed perceptual–phenomenological defence, (...)
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  45. Interventi. Confronti atmosferici. Una risposta ai commenti di Gianni Francesetti e Tonino Griffero.Simone Santamato - 2025 - Psicoterapia E Scienze Umane 59 (1):56-62.
    In this rebuttal to the interventions by Francesetti (2025) and Griffero (2025), Santamato (2025) on the one hand clarifies his positions regarding atmospherology and the emotional externalism that paradigmatically constitutes it, and on the other he acknowledges some of the criticisms. This response is structured in two parts: in the first part, the discussion on emotional externalism is revisited, reaffirming Santamato’s (2025) positions through an anti-critique of the anti-critique (Griffero, 2025); in the second part, while addressing some of the criticisms (...)
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  46. Lugones, María (1944-2020).Tiffany Tsantsoulas - 2024 - Encyclopedia of Phenomenology.
    María Lugones is a Latina feminist and decolonial philosopher of interest to anyone exploring questions about the lived experience of oppression and resistance. Though not strictly within a phenomenological tradition, Lugones offers insights on central phenomenological themes such as agency, communication, embodiment, intentionality, perception, space, and subjectivity, while foregrounding mestiza and other Women of Color experiences of marginalization. Critical phenomenologists will find that her work enriches articulations of the interplay between subjectivity, social structures, and power. Multiplicity, which Lugones understands as (...)
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  47. The Authority and Politics of Epiphanic Experience.Matthieu Queloz - manuscript
    In Epiphanies: An Ethics of Experience, Sophie Grace Chappell offers a phenomenology of epiphanies—those high points in experience when values most vividly reveal themselves to us. Yet Chappell’s method of using phenomenological descriptions to show that we live by our epiphanies leaves open the question of their authority. Why should the epiphanic carry more authority than more sober experiences? The answer, I argue, had better be sensitive to our explanatory understanding of epiphanies. Moreover, it should be sensitive to how the (...)
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  48. Shared Aesthetic Experience, Community, and Meaningfulness.Anthony Cross - forthcoming - Philosophical Topics.
    Aesthetic communities offer us opportunities for collective, communal, and value-disclosing shared aesthetic experiences. This paper develops an account of shared aesthetic experiences and provides an answer to the question of their significance: when they occur within aesthetic communities, their distinctive phenomenology is a powerful resource for creating a sense that our lives are aesthetically meaningful.
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  49. Osservazioni fenomenologiche sull’estetica della Object-Oriented Ontology.Floriana Ferro - 2024 - Estetica. Studi E Ricerche 2:391-408.
    The article contributes to the debate on Object-Oriented Ontology (OOO) in Italy, focusing on Graham Harman’s aesthetics. It develops three main points: OOO’s idea of objects, theory of beauty, and figure-ground relation. OOO’s positions are compared with the phenomenological perspective, highlighting discrepancies and points of contact. Harman’s theory of the quadruple object raises ontological and relational issues; the same can be said about OOO’s idea of part-whole relationships. However, Harman’s view of beauty as metaphor and the central role of the (...)
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  50. De plaats van heimwee.Jasper Van de Vijver - 2020 - Wijsgerig Perspectief 60 (3):24-33.
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