Empathy is operationalised and measured in various different ways in research. I have
identified several trends in empathy research that have resulted in what I refer to as …

This introduction presents an overview of key concepts discussed in the subsequent
chapters of this book. It proposes that shame, on a certain phenomenological understanding …

The current debates dealing with empathy, social cognition, and the problem of other minds
widely accept the assumption that, whereas we can directly perceive the other's body …

Current discussions on social cognition, empathy, and interpersonal understanding are
largely built on the question of how we recognize and access particular mental states of …

This paper is an attempt to build a bridge between the fields of social cognition and social
ontology. Drawing on both classical and more recent phenomenological studies, the article …

This article discusses our experience of other people from both phenomenological and
psychoanalytic perspectives. Drawing on Husserl and Freud, I will distinguish between …

In the light of the paradigm that currently dominates the debates on developmental
psychology, social cognition, and phenomenology of empathy, the quoted passage from …

This chapter outlines the concept of open intersubjectivity. It shows that the idea of
completely anonymous co-constitutors is an idealization. The chapter discusses the …

I argue that Husserl's manuscripts on intersubjectivity discover a decisive role for self-
movement in the constitution of the shared world. I explore two complementary constitutive …

We have a general idea of what the term empathy refers to. We typically use the concept in a
normative way-to express appreciation, concern, value, risks, etc,-with regard to how we …