Eugen Fink
Biographic Data
| ID | 1102876 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Eugen Fink |
| GIVEN NAMES | Eugen |
| FAMILY NAME | Fink |
| SIGNATURE | FINK E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Sussex |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0328-9685 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 37 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 19 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 34 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1940 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
‘Because if you get it right at that level, then you’re getting it right for everybody’
The transition to primary school is typically more challenging for children with additional support needs (ASN). This is notable, as a positive experience at the transition to school is associated with greater wellbeing, school engagement, and academic outcomes. Practices and support for this transition are common and varied; however, the extent to which practices are appropriate or modified to support children with ASN to flourish during their f…
Less is More
This longitudinal study examines different domains of parenting as independent predictors of gains in children's executive function (EF). Day‐long naturalistic audio recordings of family talk were gathered at Time 1 for 70 children from England (40 girls, M age = 5.41 years, SD = 0.33; 85.7% of caregivers had degree‐level education), alongside remote observations of parent‐child dyads (87.1% mothers) engaging in a 5‐min structured play task, whic…
Challenging Case Report
Diagnosing autism spectrum disorder (ASD) in verbally fluent, socially motivated children, particularly girls, remains challenging due to compensatory behaviors and masking. This case report follows a 7-year-old girl repeatedly referred to autism spectrum evaluation. Despite early developmental delays, attentional variability, and sensory sensitivities, initial community-based multidisciplinary assessment excluded ASD but did not resolve parental…
The Clinical Phenotype of Early Selective Mutism and Later Autism Spectrum Disorder in Girls
Background: The presentation of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) in girls often differs from that of boys, leading to delayed diagnosis. Selective mutism presenting at a young age can obscure autism symptoms, particularly in girls who exhibit "masking" behaviors. In this study, we examined the early manifestation of selective mutism in four girls who were later diagnosed with ASD. Method: The study describes four case studies of girls who underwent…
Changes in children’s well-being and mental health across the early school years
The aim of the present study was to examine the relation between children's well-being and mental health in the early years of primary school and the developmental association between well-being and mental health and children's early social and academic skills. Two hundred fifty-two children (131 girls, M age = 5.40 years, 80% White) and their caregivers (89.8% mothers) from the United Kingdom participated in a 1-year longitudinal study. Children…
Links Between Child Executive Function and Adjustment
Cross-site comparisons indicate that East Asian children typically excel on tests of executive function (EF), but interpreting this contrast is made difficult by both the heavy reliance on testing in school settings and by the scarcity of studies that assess across-site measurement invariance. Addressing these gaps, our study included remote home-based assessments of EF for 1002 children (Mage = 5.19 years, SD = 0.51; 49% male) from England, Hong…
Children's Use of Mental State Talk Is Connected Within Peer Dyads, but Unrelated to Theory‐of‐Mind Understanding
Across two studies we explore how individual and dyadic factors influence children's ( M age = 61 months; 52% male; 55% White British) use of mental state talk (MST) with peers during shared play. Results from actor‐partner interdependence modelling (APIM; n = 190 children) indicate that children's MST use is significantly linked to the MST use of their play partner but is unrelated to either their own or their play partner's theory‐of‐mind under…
Becoming school-parents
Transition to school research has largely overlooked parents’ experiences, particularly fathers. Addressing this gap, we gathered speech samples from UK parents (93 mothers, Mean age = 37.1 years; SD = 4.6 years; and 70 fathers, Mean age = 38.0 years; SD = 3.59 years) that captured their experiences of the school transition. This study (a) compared mothers’ and fathers’ experiences; and (b) examined experiences alongside parental self-reported ps…
Parental sensitivity and family conversation
Parental verbal sensitivity is known to promote child language skills, but few studies have considered: (a) links between global (i.e., verbal, behavioral, and affective) measures of parental sensitivity and infant‐initiated conversations, an important precursor to language development; (b) whether maternal and paternal sensitivity show similar links with infant‐initiated conversation; or (c) the transactional role of infant conversation for late…
Developmental links between well-being, self-concept and prosocial behaviour in early primary school
BackgroundWell-being is a key aspect of children's education, yet measurement issues have limited studies in early primary school.AimsThe current 12-month longitudinal study assesses the temporal stability of child- and parent-reported school well-being and examines developmental links with academic self-concept and parent-rated prosocial behaviour.Sample(s)We tracked a sample of 206 children across the transition from the first (T1) to the secon…
Aristoteles, Nikomachische Ethik
Grundfragen der antiken Philosophie
Volume 11 of Eugen Fink’s ‘Collected Works’ brings together Fink's contributions on ancient philosophy since the 1940s: three main texts—the lecture on the ‘Basic Questions of Ancient Philosophy’ (winter semester 1947/48), the seminar on the ‘Principle of Contradiction’ (winter semester 1959/60) and the seminar on Heraclitus (winter semester 1966/67), which he held together with Heidegger—, two smaller works entitled ‘Time and the Concept of Time…
Examining links between affective empathy, cognitive empathy, and peer relationships at the transition to school
The current study aimed to (i) examine associations across features of affective and cognitive empathy, and (ii) explore their independent role for children's peer relationships at the transition to school. Affective empathy was measured using both observations of children's facial affect during an empathy‐eliciting event and dispositional affective empathy to peer distress via teacher report. Cognitive empathy was measured using an index of chil…
Understanding changes to children's connection to nature during the Covid‐19 pandemic and implications for child well‐being
While psychological connection to nature is known to be associated with both pro‐environmental behaviours and well‐being, there is an urgent need to extend this research to consider impacts from the COVID‐19 lockdown period. Examining whether children's connection to nature changed during this period, identifying the drivers of these changes and determining the links between connection to nature and child well‐being can each serve to guide post‐l…
Expectant mothers' not fathers' mind‐mindedness predicts infant, mother, and father conversational turns at 7 months
Parental mind‐mindedness (MM), defined as the propensity to view one's child as an agent with thoughts, feelings, and desires, is associated with positive child outcomes (McMahon & Bernier, 2017) and can be assessed in expectant parents by using five‐minute speech samples (Magaña et al., 1986). Individual differences in MM appear stable across the transition to parenthood (Foley et al., in press), offering an exciting intervention opportunity, as…
Oásis da felicidade
Tradução de “Oase des Glücks”. In: Fink, E. (2010) Eugen Fink Gesamtausgabe 7: Spiel als Weltsymbol. Herausgegeben von Cathrin Nielsen und Hans Rainer Sepp. Freiburg im Breisgau: Verlag Karl Alber, pp. 11-29. Traduzido por Felipe Maia da Silva
Participant engagement with play research - examples and lessons learned from the Centre for Play in Education, Development and Learning
Participatory approaches to play research emphasise the active engagement of key stakeholders in all aspects of the research. Ranging from children, parents and educators to policy makers, the Centre for Research on Play in Education, Development and Learning (PEDAL) at the Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge, UK, actively engages with a variety of play research stakeholders. The current paper focuses on the ways PEDAL Centre involves c…
Making sense of social pretense
Pretend play with peers is purportedly an important driver of social development in the preschool period; however, fundamental questions regarding the features of children's pretend play with a peer, and the effect of the dyad for pretend play, have been overlooked. The current study undertook detailed behavioral coding of social pretend play in 134 pairs of 5‐year‐old children (54% boys) in order to address three main aims: (a) describe the dura…
Using a “child's‐eye view” of social success to understand the importance of school readiness at the transition to formal schooling
Recent research into school readiness has highlighted the importance of not only children's cognitive and socio‐emotional skills, but also the degree to which they have family support in the home. The current study examines the association between social success upon school entry and teacher‐ratings of school readiness as assessed by the Brief Early Skills and Support Index (BESSI), controlling for language ability. Importantly, social success wa…
Expression and Regulation of Attachment-Related Emotions in Children with Conduct Problems and Callous–Unemotional Traits
Hegel
Talking theory of mind talk
Links between young children's everyday use of mindful conversational skills and their success on laboratory tests of theory of mind understanding (ToM) were evaluated. Using published scales, teachers rated the conversational behavior and shyness of 129 children aged 60 to 101 months (M = 78·8 months) who were in their first years of primary school. The children also took batteries of first- and second-order false-belief tests along with tests o…
Sports-Embedded Gambling Promotions
La filosofía fenomenológica de Edmund Husserl ante la crítica contemporánea
Para los estudiosos de la fenomenología husserliana este «gran artículo» (Ricoeur) de Eugen Fink no requiere de presentación: la que Husserl mismo hizo de él toma, en un cierto sentido, superfluas todas las que se intentaran. Es quizás el ensayo más influyente que se haya escrito sobre fenomenología y ha marcado, de un modo u otro, gran parte de lo que se ha escrito sobre Husserl con posterioridad a él. Las palabras que Edmund Husserl escribió en…
Sixth Cartesian meditation
Eugen Fink's Sixth Cartesian Meditation, accompanied by Edmund Husserl's detailed and extensive notations, is a pivotal document in the development of one of the dominant philosophical directions of the twentieth century, Husserlian transcendental phenomenology. Meant to follow a systematic revision of Husserl's first five Cartesian Meditations, the Sixth Meditation, written in 1932, constituted a dialogue between Husserl and Fink on the basic pr…
The Oasis of Happiness
Making sense of social pretense
Pretend play with peers is purportedly an important driver of social development in the preschool period; however, fundamental questions regarding the features of children's pretend play with a peer, and the effect of the dyad for pretend play, have been overlooked. The current study undertook detailed behavioral coding of social pretend play in 134 pairs of 5‐year‐old children (54% boys) in order to address three main aims: (a) describe the dura…
Children's Use of Mental State Talk Is Connected Within Peer Dyads, but Unrelated to Theory‐of‐Mind Understanding
Across two studies we explore how individual and dyadic factors influence children's ( M age = 61 months; 52% male; 55% White British) use of mental state talk (MST) with peers during shared play. Results from actor‐partner interdependence modelling (APIM; n = 190 children) indicate that children's MST use is significantly linked to the MST use of their play partner but is unrelated to either their own or their play partner's theory‐of‐mind under…
Developmental links between well-being, self-concept and prosocial behaviour in early primary school
BackgroundWell-being is a key aspect of children's education, yet measurement issues have limited studies in early primary school.AimsThe current 12-month longitudinal study assesses the temporal stability of child- and parent-reported school well-being and examines developmental links with academic self-concept and parent-rated prosocial behaviour.Sample(s)We tracked a sample of 206 children across the transition from the first (T1) to the secon…
Inquiry Concerning the Origin of Geometry
Changes in children’s well-being and mental health across the early school years
The aim of the present study was to examine the relation between children's well-being and mental health in the early years of primary school and the developmental association between well-being and mental health and children's early social and academic skills. Two hundred fifty-two children (131 girls, M age = 5.40 years, 80% White) and their caregivers (89.8% mothers) from the United Kingdom participated in a 1-year longitudinal study. Children…
Alles und Nichts
Inquiry Concerning the Origin of Geometry
Problemes Actuels de la Phenomenologie
Alles und Nichts
Sein, Wahrheit, Welt
The Oasis of Happiness
Introduction to the Logical Investigations
Philosophische Rundschau
Pragmatik Handbuch pragmatischen Denkens
Homer
Aspects of Human Sacrifice in the Tragedies of Euripides
VI. Cartesianische Meditation
Heraclitus Seminar
Sixth Cartesian meditation
Eugen Fink's Sixth Cartesian Meditation, accompanied by Edmund Husserl's detailed and extensive notations, is a pivotal document in the development of one of the dominant philosophical directions of the twentieth century, Husserlian transcendental phenomenology. Meant to follow a systematic revision of Husserl's first five Cartesian Meditations, the Sixth Meditation, written in 1932, constituted a dialogue between Husserl and Fink on the basic pr…
La filosofía fenomenológica de Edmund Husserl ante la crítica contemporánea
Para los estudiosos de la fenomenología husserliana este «gran artículo» (Ricoeur) de Eugen Fink no requiere de presentación: la que Husserl mismo hizo de él toma, en un cierto sentido, superfluas todas las que se intentaran. Es quizás el ensayo más influyente que se haya escrito sobre fenomenología y ha marcado, de un modo u otro, gran parte de lo que se ha escrito sobre Husserl con posterioridad a él. Las palabras que Edmund Husserl escribió en…
Hegel
Talking theory of mind talk
Links between young children's everyday use of mindful conversational skills and their success on laboratory tests of theory of mind understanding (ToM) were evaluated. Using published scales, teachers rated the conversational behavior and shyness of 129 children aged 60 to 101 months (M = 78·8 months) who were in their first years of primary school. The children also took batteries of first- and second-order false-belief tests along with tests o…
Sports-Embedded Gambling Promotions
Expression and Regulation of Attachment-Related Emotions in Children with Conduct Problems and Callous–Unemotional Traits
Using a “child's‐eye view” of social success to understand the importance of school readiness at the transition to formal schooling
Recent research into school readiness has highlighted the importance of not only children's cognitive and socio‐emotional skills, but also the degree to which they have family support in the home. The current study examines the association between social success upon school entry and teacher‐ratings of school readiness as assessed by the Brief Early Skills and Support Index (BESSI), controlling for language ability. Importantly, social success wa…
Making sense of social pretense
Pretend play with peers is purportedly an important driver of social development in the preschool period; however, fundamental questions regarding the features of children's pretend play with a peer, and the effect of the dyad for pretend play, have been overlooked. The current study undertook detailed behavioral coding of social pretend play in 134 pairs of 5‐year‐old children (54% boys) in order to address three main aims: (a) describe the dura…
Participant engagement with play research - examples and lessons learned from the Centre for Play in Education, Development and Learning
Participatory approaches to play research emphasise the active engagement of key stakeholders in all aspects of the research. Ranging from children, parents and educators to policy makers, the Centre for Research on Play in Education, Development and Learning (PEDAL) at the Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge, UK, actively engages with a variety of play research stakeholders. The current paper focuses on the ways PEDAL Centre involves c…
Understanding changes to children's connection to nature during the Covid‐19 pandemic and implications for child well‐being
While psychological connection to nature is known to be associated with both pro‐environmental behaviours and well‐being, there is an urgent need to extend this research to consider impacts from the COVID‐19 lockdown period. Examining whether children's connection to nature changed during this period, identifying the drivers of these changes and determining the links between connection to nature and child well‐being can each serve to guide post‐l…
Expectant mothers' not fathers' mind‐mindedness predicts infant, mother, and father conversational turns at 7 months
Parental mind‐mindedness (MM), defined as the propensity to view one's child as an agent with thoughts, feelings, and desires, is associated with positive child outcomes (McMahon & Bernier, 2017) and can be assessed in expectant parents by using five‐minute speech samples (Magaña et al., 1986). Individual differences in MM appear stable across the transition to parenthood (Foley et al., in press), offering an exciting intervention opportunity, as…
Oásis da felicidade
Tradução de “Oase des Glücks”. In: Fink, E. (2010) Eugen Fink Gesamtausgabe 7: Spiel als Weltsymbol. Herausgegeben von Cathrin Nielsen und Hans Rainer Sepp. Freiburg im Breisgau: Verlag Karl Alber, pp. 11-29. Traduzido por Felipe Maia da Silva
Aristoteles, Nikomachische Ethik
Psychology (21 works) · Philosophy (16 works) · Developmental psychology (13 works) · Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (12 works) · Social Psychology (11 works) · Early Childhood Education and Development (8 works) · Social Psychology (7 works) · Art (5 works) · Epistemology (5 works) · Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, and Hegel (5 works)