Magnus Englander is phenomenological psychologist and associate professor at the Faculty of Health & Society at Malmö University. His research is situated within the interdisciplinary research context on the topic of health and society. Englander’s phenomenological research covers interdisciplinary perspectives such as social psychology, social psychiatry, and social cognition. He served for five years as the book review editor of the Journal of Phenomenological Psychology and is the author of multiple articles on phenomenological psychology. He is the volume editor of Phenomenology and the Social Context of Psychiatry.
Susi Ferrarello is assistant professor at California State University, East Bay. She writes for Psychology Today. Among her publications there are novels, poetry, and academic books on philosophy, including Bioethics and Emotions, Phenomenology of Sex, Love, and Intimacy, The Ethics of Lived Experience: A Phenomenology and Husserl’s Ethics and Practical Intentionality.
Introduction
Section 1: The constitution of phenomenological ethics and the phenomenon of empathy: main protagonists and themes
1. Why Empathy Means Nothing—and Everything—for Ethics, John Drummond, Fordham University
2. Making Sense of our Vulnerability: Phenomenological Reflections on Vulnerability in Emotions and Empathy, Esteban Marin Avila, Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo
3. Finding Oneself in the Other: On Empathy’s Role in Evaluative Experiences, Sonja Rinofner-Kreidl, University of Graz
4. Embracing Ambiguity: Simone De Beauvoir’s Affective Ethics of Response-ability, Maren Wehrle, Erasmus University Rotterdam
5. The Personalistic Attitude: Edmund Husserl and Edith Stein on Empathy as the Intuition of the Person as Value, Dermot Moran, Boston College
6. The Role of Empathy and the Critique of Axiological and Practical Reason in Husserl’s Phenomenology of Ethics, Carlos Lobo, University of Lisbon
7. The Role of Reverence in the Phenomenological Method of Dietrich von Hildebrand, Alexander Montes, Boston College
8. “Against” Empathy: From the Isolated Self to Intersubjectivity in Martin Heidegger’s Thinking and Its Consequence in Health Care, Francesca Brencio, University of Seville
9. Being (N)one of Us: The Ethical and the Body, Henning Nörenberg, University of Rostock
10. The Limits of Empathy and Respect for Absent Others, Andrea Staiti, University of Parma
11. Value and Togetherness: Husserl's Ethics of Social Life, Nicolas de Warren, Penn State University
12. Empathy, Alterity, Morality, Dan Zahavi, University of Oxford
Section 2: The intersection of phenomenological ethics and empathy in psychology and sociology
13. On the Problem of Idealized Empathy and Ethics, Magnus Englander, Malmö University and Susi Ferrarello, California State University
14. The Subjective Bias: Asymmetric Experience and the Possibility of Interpersonal Dialogue, Joona Taipale, University of Jyväskylä
15. Thinking with the Heart: From the Responsiveness of the Flesh to the Ethics of Responsibility, Elodie Boublil, University of Cologne
16. Empathy and Ethics, Manuel Camassa, Luzern University
17. Intercorporeality, Empathy, and the Call to Compassion: Engendering Care and Respect for ‘the Other’ in a More-Than-Human-World, Scott. D. Churchill, University of Dallas
18. Intersubjectivity and Empathy: Transcendental Grounds for “Doing No Harm” Larry Davidson, Yale Program for Recovery and Community Health
Section 3: Employing phenomenological ethics and empathy to further discoveries in arts and society
19. Empathy, Fiction, and Knowledge of Values Íngrid Vendrell, Ferran, Jena University
20. Aesthetic Empathy, Feeling, and Value, Jannik M. Hansen, University of Copenhagen and Tone Roald, University of Copenhagen
21. Music and Empathic Spaces in Therapy and Improvisation Simon Høffding, University of Oslo and Joel Krueger, University of Exeter
22. Shall I Take Care of a Stranger? Towards an Ethics of Asymmetry Between Community and Particularity Eva Schwarz, Södertörn University
23. Phenomenology, Empathy, and Ethical Online Gaming, Michael Agostinelli, Jr. San Jose State University Index