Social Ontology and Phenomenology

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Methodological Perspectives

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

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This volume brings together leading scholars from the phenomenological tradition to address questions regarding the relation of social ontology and phenomenology.There is a longstanding suspicion in analytic philosophy that phenomenology cannot contribute to our understanding of social relations, dynamics, and institutions. The main reason for this suspicion lies in phenomenology’s first-person perspective, whereas work on social reality in the analytic tradition tends to proceed from an outside, third-person standpoint. This volume makes the case that phenomenology’s methodological emphasis on subjectivity and intersubjectivity can contribute to debates in social ontology. The chapters are divided into two thematic parts. Part 1 offers different broad methodological reflections on thinking about the social world from a phenomenological standpoint in general. Part 2 picks out different aspects of the social world to reflect on the question what specifically phenomenological approaches to these aspects have to offer. These chapters explore topics such as dignity, emotions, psychopathology, sexism, social norms, and trust.Social Ontology and Phenomenology will be of interest to philosophers working in phenomenology, social ontology, and social philosophy.

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Utgivningsdatum2026-06-05
Mått152 x 229 x undefined mm
Vikt453 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieRoutledge Research in Phenomenology
Antal sidor374
FörlagTaylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN9781032683881

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Thomas J. Spiegel is Professor of philosophy and religion in the faculty of Global Liberal Arts at Miyazaki International University. His research is on a variety of epistemological and ontological questions regarding the social world. He is the author of Naturalism, Quietism, and the Threat to Philosophy (2021, Schwabe), co-editor of Naturalism and Human Life (International Journal of Philosophical Studies, 2026), McDowell and the Hermeneutic Tradition (Routledge, 2024), and Naturalism: Challenges and New Perspectives (Topoi, 2023). Spiegel's work has been published in Synthese, Inquiry, Topoi, Theoria, Social Epistemology, Philosophical Investigations and different German newspapers.

Introduction Thomas J. Spiegel Part 1: General Reflections 1. Social Ontology and the Indispensability of Experience Nicolai Knudsen 2. Fundamental Social Ontology and the Phenomenological Tradition Hans Bernhard Schmid 3. Social Ontology and Phenomenology – Towards a Hybrid Approach. A Meditation with Gerda Walther Sebastian Luft 4. What is Value Experience? Discovering What Matters Roberta De Monticelli 5. The Deep Structural Normativity of the Anonymous: Husserl and Heidegger on Everyday Social Life Dermot Moran Part 2: Aspects of the Social World 6. Which Realism for Social Constructionists? Arto Laitinen & David P. Schweikard 7. Social Norms as the Subject of Phenomenology Karl Mertens 8. Seriality and Embodiment: On the Collectivity of Gender vis-à-vi Social Class and Ethnicity Sara Heinämaa 9. First-Person Experience and Social Constructivism in Dementia Research. An Embodied Phenomenological Perspective on Dementia and Vulnerability Christian Tewes 10. When is an Affective State Hostile? Ingrid Vendrell Ferran 11. Collective Emotions. Probing the Intersection of Phenomenology and Analytic Philosophy Linas Tranas and Thiemo Breyer 12. The Hobbesian Brainwash: Fundamental Trust and Active Trust Thomas J. Spiegel 13. Lived Normative Know-How: in Search of the Heart of a We Patrizio Lo Presti. Index