Thomas Szanto
I'm a Professor of Political Philosophy at the Europa-University Flensburg and a Research Associate of the Center for Subjectivity Research, Dept. of Communication, at the University of Copenhagen. I'm also Associate Editor of the journal Emotion Review (https://journals.sagepub.com/home/emr).
Currently, I'm working at the intersection of phenomenology, philosophy of emotions, and social and political philosophy. I'm particularly interested in understanding irrational or disruptive phenomena concerning emotions in social, collective, and political contexts, such as emotional alienation, collaborative akrasia and self-deception, group-related distrust, Ressentiment and hatred). I also work on philosophy of imagination and critical social epistemology (esp. epistemic injustice).
My academic training and background are in phenomenology (esp. Husserl, Scheler, Stein and Sartre) and analytic philosophy of mind, but I see myself as an emphatically pluralistic and interdisciplinary oriented philosopher. Thus, I continuously engage with the relevant strands in the empirical and social sciences, and especially sociology, social psychology, social identification theory, political theory and political psychology.
Before assuming my present position, I was working as a PI or as a Postdoc on a number of related research projects:
2020-2024, I was an Associate Professor at the Center for Subjectivity Research, Dept. of Communication, at the University of Copenhagen, affiliated to the Carlsberg Foundation Research Project "Who Are We?
Philosophy and the Social sciences" (PI: Dan Zahavi).
2019-2023, I was PI of the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) research project "Antagonistic Political Emotions: An Integrative Philosophical Analysis". (You can read more about the project here: https://cfs.ku.dk/research-activities/researchprojects/antagonistic-political-emotions-an-integrative-philosophical-analysis/ or here: https://antagonisticpoliticalemotions.squarespace.com/.)
2018-2019, I was a Senior Researcher at the Department of Social Sciences and Philosophy, at University of Jyväskylä, within the research project "Marginalization and Experience: Phenomenological Analyses of Normality and Abnormality" (MEPA) (PI: Sara Heinämaa).
2016-2018, I was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Center for Subjectivity Research, working on my Marie Curie research project, "SHARE: Shared Emotions, Group Membership, and Empathy".
2014-2016, I was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow for two years at CFS in the VELUX Fonden research project “Empathy and Interpersonal Understanding” (PI: Dan Zahavi).
2012-2013, I was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the School of Philosophy, University College Dublin, affiliated to the Irish Research Council project "Discovering the 'We': The Phenomenology of Sociality" (PI: Dermot Moran).
I have also held a number of Adjunct Lecturer positions, among others at the Department of Philosophy, University of Vienna (2008-2014).
Supervisors: Sara Heinämaa (Univ. Jyväskylä); Dan Zahavi (Univ. Copenhagen); Dermot Moran (University College Dublin); Sonja Rinofner-Kreidl (University of Graz); Herta Nagl-Docekal (University of Vienna)
Currently, I'm working at the intersection of phenomenology, philosophy of emotions, and social and political philosophy. I'm particularly interested in understanding irrational or disruptive phenomena concerning emotions in social, collective, and political contexts, such as emotional alienation, collaborative akrasia and self-deception, group-related distrust, Ressentiment and hatred). I also work on philosophy of imagination and critical social epistemology (esp. epistemic injustice).
My academic training and background are in phenomenology (esp. Husserl, Scheler, Stein and Sartre) and analytic philosophy of mind, but I see myself as an emphatically pluralistic and interdisciplinary oriented philosopher. Thus, I continuously engage with the relevant strands in the empirical and social sciences, and especially sociology, social psychology, social identification theory, political theory and political psychology.
Before assuming my present position, I was working as a PI or as a Postdoc on a number of related research projects:
2020-2024, I was an Associate Professor at the Center for Subjectivity Research, Dept. of Communication, at the University of Copenhagen, affiliated to the Carlsberg Foundation Research Project "Who Are We?
Philosophy and the Social sciences" (PI: Dan Zahavi).
2019-2023, I was PI of the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) research project "Antagonistic Political Emotions: An Integrative Philosophical Analysis". (You can read more about the project here: https://cfs.ku.dk/research-activities/researchprojects/antagonistic-political-emotions-an-integrative-philosophical-analysis/ or here: https://antagonisticpoliticalemotions.squarespace.com/.)
2018-2019, I was a Senior Researcher at the Department of Social Sciences and Philosophy, at University of Jyväskylä, within the research project "Marginalization and Experience: Phenomenological Analyses of Normality and Abnormality" (MEPA) (PI: Sara Heinämaa).
2016-2018, I was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Center for Subjectivity Research, working on my Marie Curie research project, "SHARE: Shared Emotions, Group Membership, and Empathy".
2014-2016, I was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow for two years at CFS in the VELUX Fonden research project “Empathy and Interpersonal Understanding” (PI: Dan Zahavi).
2012-2013, I was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the School of Philosophy, University College Dublin, affiliated to the Irish Research Council project "Discovering the 'We': The Phenomenology of Sociality" (PI: Dermot Moran).
I have also held a number of Adjunct Lecturer positions, among others at the Department of Philosophy, University of Vienna (2008-2014).
Supervisors: Sara Heinämaa (Univ. Jyväskylä); Dan Zahavi (Univ. Copenhagen); Dermot Moran (University College Dublin); Sonja Rinofner-Kreidl (University of Graz); Herta Nagl-Docekal (University of Vienna)
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Die Arbeit lotet die Möglichkeiten, aber auch die methodologischen Grenzen eines solchen Brückenschlages aus. In detaillierten Analysen werden dabei gravierende konzeptuelle und metatheoretische Äquivokationen zwischen phänomenologischen und (sprach)analytischen bzw. kognitivistischen Modellen des Mentalen aufgeklärt. Kritisch fokussiert werden insbesondere repräsentationalistische Projekte der Naturalisierung des phänomenalen und intentionalen Bewusstseins, neuere Selbstbewusstseinstheorien sowie Husserls Sonderstellung gegenüber der gegenwärtigen (semantischen und geisttheoretischen) Internalismus/Externalismus- und der Realismus/Anti-Realismus-Debatte.
Die Studie zeigt so das deskriptive und explanatorische Potenzial von Husserls Bewusstseinstheorie auf und präsentiert die Phänomenologie als ernstzunehmenden Diskussionspartner nicht nur der Philosophie des Geistes bzw. der Philosophie der Psychologie und Kognition, sondern auch der analytischen Sprachphilosophie und Erkenntnistheorie.""
https://cfs.ku.dk/research-activities/researchprojects/who-are-we/upcoming-events/for-against-together/