Thatcher’s Perceptual Illusion is presented as a case study to test the fruitfulness of Helmuth Plessner’s Aesthesiology for contemporary philosophical and empirical research on sensory perception (§1). In one reading, Thatcher Illusion’s seems to question Gestalt Theory. We argue that it limits ideed its explanatory power, by forcing us to distinguish physiognomic identity from emotional...
Contemporary philosophical research on emotions has focused on their intentionality, in particular on the specific intentional work done by feeling (“feeling-towards”, in Peter Goldie’s positive phrasing, as opposed to a tendency to “over-intellectualize” emotions, that is, to explain them in terms of beliefs and desires, or to reduce them to purely subjective states or qualia). But is there...
This summer, Europe's Journal of Psychology hosts a fruitful discussion about phenomenology, its method, the possibilities of application in today's context and its current troubled waters stemming from recent historical-ideological debates. Prof. Roberta De Monticelli offers lush and informative answers to provocative issues like overdriving the epoché, Heidegger's dark undertones, the...