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Values of love: two forms of infinity characteristic of human persons
In his late reflections on values and forms of life from the 1920s and 1930s, Husserl develops the concept of personal value and argues that these...
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‘I’ve Got Nothing Against Vegans… But’: To Divulge, Dissemble or Divert Positionality in Rural Research Settings
Changes in diet and related purchasing habits at a societal level have become a significant source of stress for farmers in recent years. The rise of...
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Conclusion: Beyond Causes and Cures
This chapter synthesises the central themes laid out in this book, which investigates the relevance of philosophical ‘big topics’ such as time,...
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A critical view on using “life not worth living” in the bioethics of assisted reproduction
This paper critically engages with how life not worth living (LNWL) and cognate concepts are used in the field of beginning-of-life bioethics as the...
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Plagiarism!: Wittgenstein Against Carnap
In 1932 Ludwig Wittgenstein accused Rudolf Carnap of plagiarism and seems to have gone so far as to scrawl the word ‘Plagiarism’ on one of Carnap’s...
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What Is Phenomenology?
What is phenomenology? This chapter addresses this question by reviewing some classic definitions and then by looking briefly at the historical...
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“O My Body…”: Fanon and the Pathologies of Recognition
In this chapter, I consider the work of Frantz Fanon, the most complete example of the philosopher-psychiatrist that we encounter in the continental...
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Phenomenology of social explanation
The orthodox view of social cognition maintains that mentalizing is an important and pervasive element of our ordinary social interactions. The...
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A Taxonomy of Empathy
‘A Taxonomy of Empathy’ presents a new systematisation for the phenomenon of empathy, based on the difference between what the author calls low-level...
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Realism and Anti-Realism in Young Carnap
The rejection of metaphysical questions is a constant in Carnap’s thought. The first part of the paper delves into the question of the basic tenets...
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The significance of Emmanuel Levinas’ ethics of responsibility for medical judgment
At a time when the practice of medicine is subject to technical and biopolitical imperatives that give rise to defensive bioethics, it is essential...
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The Mental and Physical Still Pose Insuperable Problems
Classic topics are sentience (awareness), sapience (knowledge), and selfhood (agency or the epistemic “who”), exemplifying essential, unavoidable...
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The Metropolization of Social Life
There are a number of dimensions of modern metropolitan life that Simmel does not explore in his 1903 essay. This chapter aims to systematically...
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Not Idealist Enough. Satomi Takahashi and Tomoo Otaka on Husserl’s Idealism
The present paper aims at reconstructing the reactions to Husserl’s idealism in the writings of two of his Japanese students: Satomi Takahashi...
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The Givenness of Other People: On Singularity and Empathy in Husserl
Other people figure in our experience of the world; they strike us as unique and genuinely other. This paper explores whether a Husserlian account of...
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Imagination and the Experience of Moral Objectivity
Different notions of objectivity support different notions of what is required for a moral value or obligation to be experienced as objective. If the...
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The Human Person in Confucianism: Triadic Relationships and the Possibilities of an Agapastic Semeiotic Pragmatism
In a recent conference volume, American philosopher Michael Sandel engages the Confucian tradition in the search for alternatives to what Sandel...
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Bodies, Authenticity, and Marcelian Problematicity
Gabriel Marcel, the first French existentialist, was influenced by the idealism of Hegel, Fichte, and Schopenhauer. Though Marcel ultimately rejected...