After an introductory section, this article will focus on four questions: How should the Kyoto
School be defined? What is meant by its central philosophical concept of “absolute …

The subjective experience of social stigma has been widely researched in terms of
discrimination, rejection, isolation, etc. These are commonly understood within the traditional …

Recently, an increasing body of work from sociology, social psychology, and social ontology
has been devoted to collective emotions. Rather curiously, however, pressing …

Phenomenology is one of the leading movements in twentieth-century philosophy and
continues to exert a strong influence on many contemporary philosophical traditions and …

Our social encounters are dizzyingly complex. They not only involve overlapping layers of
affective, conative, and cognitive engagements between self and others. They are also …

Defenders of a direct perception approach to other minds—what I'll here refer to as direct
social perception (DSP)—argue that we directly perceive mental states. 1 I see my partner's …

The aim of our contribution is to clarify the nature of empathy and its role in sociality. Taking
issue with a recent proposal by Bubandt and Willerslev, we argue that their …

Empathy is one of the most talked about and widely studied concepts of recent years. Some
argue it can help create a more just society, improve medical care and even avert global …

In everyday language, according to the Oxford English Dictionary,“people often confuse the
words empathy and sympathy.” As is clarified promptly,“empathy means 'the ability to …

Names: Szanto, Thomas, editor.| Landweer, Hilge, editor. Title: The Routledge handbook of
phenomenology of emotion/edited by Thomas Szanto and Hilge Landweer. Description …