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 …

Does empathy merely take place in leaders' minds? How does it help us better understand
and practice leadership? In the past, entitative relational leadership studies have mainly …

What is it to belong to a 'We'or an 'Us'? What is the nature of interpersonal understanding,
social interaction, and social participation? For instance, is sharing a common socio-cultural …

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

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 …

Purpose Drawing on the phenomenological concepts of “empathy” and “communal
emotions” developed by Edith Stein (1917, 1922), the purpose of this paper is to discuss the …

The aim of this paper is to clarify the notion of shared emotion. After contextualizing this
notion within the broader research landscape on collective affective intentionality, I suggest …

Animals were omnipresent in the everyday life and the visual arts of classical Greece. In
literature, too, they had significant functions. This book discusses the role of animals-both …

Edith Stein (1891–1942) was a realist phenomenologist associated with the Göttingen
school and later a Christian metaphysician. She was a Jew who converted to Catholicism in …

My aim in this paper is to make use of Edith Stein's phenomenological analyses of empathy,
emotion, and personhood to clarify and critically assess the recent suggestion by Axel …