Overview
Our experience of other individuals as minded beings goes hand in hand with the awareness that they have a unique epistemic and emotional perspective on the experienced objects and situations. The same object can be seen from many different points of view, an event can awaken different emotional reactions in different individuals, and our position-takings can in part be mediated by our belonging to some social or cultural groups. All these phenomena can be described by referring to the metaphor of perspective. Assuming that there are different, and irreducible, perspectives we can take on the experienced world, and on others as experiencing the same world, the phenomenon of mutual understanding can consistently be understood in terms of perspectival flexibility. This edited volume investigates the different processes in which perspectival flexibility occurs in social life and particularly focuses on the constitutive role of imagination in such processes. It includes original works in philosophy and psychopathology showing how perspectival flexibility and social cognition are grounded on the interplay of direct perception and imagination.
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Author: Michela Summa (University of Würzburg, Germany) ,
Thomas Fuchs (University of Heidelberg, Germany) ,
Luca Vanzago (University of Pavia, Italy)
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint: Routledge
Weight: 0.453kg
ISBN: 9780367667467
ISBN 10: 0367667460
Pages: 358
Publication Date: 30 September 2020
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Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
""This collection is welcome indeed since it draws into sharp relief the important but often overlooked connections among imagination, intersubjectivity, and perspective-taking of all kinds. While those schooled in the phenomenological tradition are well aware that these interlocking themes were of central concern to Husserl, Stein, Sartre and company, it has, with some exceptions, taken a little more time for analytical philosophers of mind and cognitive scientists to realize just how crucial perspective-taking is to understanding the structures and functions of consciousness . . . The book is highly recommended."" — Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews ""An outstanding and innovative book, which absolutely needs to be read and studied by researchers and students."" — Natalie Depraz, University of Rouen, France ""This book covers a wide range of intriguing and original contributions to the role of imagination in perspective-taking, and the sociality of imagination."" — Anika Fiebich, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
This collection is welcome indeed since it draws into sharp relief the important but often overlooked connections among imagination, intersubjectivity, and perspective-taking of all kinds. While those schooled in the phenomenological tradition are well aware that these interlocking themes were of central concern to Husserl, Stein, Sartre and company, it has, with some exceptions, taken a little more time for analytical philosophers of mind and cognitive scientists to realize just how crucial perspective-taking is to understanding the structures and functions of consciousness . . . The book is highly recommended. - Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews An outstanding and innovative book, which absolutely needs to be read and studied by researchers and students. - Natalie Depraz, University of Rouen, France This book covers a wide range of intriguing and original contributions to the role of imagination in perspective-taking, and the sociality of imagination. - Anika Fiebich, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
This collection is welcome indeed since it draws into sharp relief the important but often overlooked connections among imagination, intersubjectivity, and perspective-taking of all kinds. While those schooled in the phenomenological tradition are well aware that these interlocking themes were of central concern to Husserl, Stein, Sartre and company, it has, with some exceptions, taken a little more time for analytical philosophers of mind and cognitive scientists to realize just how crucial perspective-taking is to understanding the structures and functions of consciousness . . . The book is highly recommended. - Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews An outstanding and innovative book, which absolutely needs to be read and studied by researchers and students. - Natalie Depraz, University of Rouen, France This book covers a wide range of intriguing and original contributions to the role of imagination in perspective-taking, and the sociality of imagination. - Anika Fiebich, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Author Information
Michela Summa is a post-doc researcher and lecturer at the Philosophy Department of Julius Maximilians Universität Würzburg. Research interests include: the phenomenology of sensible experience, the phenomenology and the psychopathology of self- and other-experience, the phenomenology of memory and imagination, aesthetic and ontology of fiction. Thomas Fuchs is Karl Jaspers Professor of Philosophy and Psychiatry at Heidelberg University, Germany. Areas of expertise: phenomenological philosophy, psychology and psychopathology, with a focus on embodiment, temporality, spatiality, and intersubjectivity. Clinical work focus: diagnosis, psychopathological assessment and treatment of adults with severe psychiatric disorders. Luca Vanzago is a professor of Theoretical Philosophy and of Theory of Knowledge at the University of Pavia, Italy. Areas of expertise: phenomenology, philosophy of mind, and ontology, with focus on temporality, bodily subjectivity, the experience of pain, and the ""hard problem"" of consciousness.
