Empathy, Embodiment, and the Person

James Jardine is a Postdoctoral Researcher in Philosophy at the University of Jyväskylä, where he works within the Academy of Finland-funded MEPA research project.  He was awarded a Doctorate in Philosophy by the University of Copenhagen in 2017, having previously obtained degrees in Philosophy from the University of Sheffield and the University of Warwick.  His doctoral research, supported by the Velux Foundation, was based at the University of Copenhagen's Center for Subjectivity Research and involved research stays at the University of Cologne, Columbia University, and the University of Vienna. From 2017 to 2018, he was a Government of Ireland Postdoctoral Fellow at the UCD School of Philosophy, University College Dublin, a fellowship awarded him by the Irish Research Council.His research interests include self-consciousness, emotion, and social experience withinand beyond the phenomenological tradition. In addition to authoring journal articles and book chapters on such topics, he is the co-editor of Perception and the Inhuman Gaze.

• Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. The distinctive phenomenology of empathy.- Chapter 3. “Nature” and perception.- Chapter 4. Animate empathy and intercorporeal nature.- Chapter 5. The personal self: a first-personal approach.- Chapter 6. Interpersonal empathy and the person as interpersonal.- Chapter 7. Empathy and personhood beyond Ideas II.- Chapter 8. Conclusion.