Dan Zahavi

Biographic Data

ID113793
NAMEDan Zahavi
GIVEN NAMESDan
FAMILY NAMEZahavi
SIGNATUREZAHAVI D
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Copenhagen
ORCID0000-0002-2869-4951
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS64
TOTAL CITATIONS122
AUTHOR COUNT55
EDITOR COUNT9
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1994
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX6

  • Précis of being we: Phenomenological contributions to social ontology

    Open AccessDan ZahaviARTICLEPhenomenology and the Cognitive…2026

  • The unity and plurality of sharing

    Dan ZahaviARTICLEPhilosophical Psychology2025

    Many accounts of collective intentionality target rather sophisticated types of cooperative activities, i.e., activities with complex goals that require prior planning and various coordinating and organizing roles. But although joint action is of obvious importance, an investigation of collective intentionality should not merely focus on the question of how we can share agentive intentions. We can act and do things together, but it is not obvious…

  • Quantum phenomenology: Measurement, reflection, correlation

    Open AccessDan ZahaviARTICLEStudies in History and Philosophy…2025Cited by: 1References: 7

    In his book A Phenomenological Approach to Quantum Mechanics: Cutting the Chain of Correlations Steven French presents an interpretation of Fritz London's and Edmond Bauer's 1939 monograph La théorie de l'observation en mécanique quantique that acknowledges and engages with the phenomenological theorizing underlying their approach to the measurement problem. My aim in the following contribution is twofold. I will first offer some historical and s…

  • I and We: Hannah Arendt, Participatory Plurality, and the Literary Scaffolding of Collective Intentionality

    Ben Morgan, Naomi Rokotnitz et al.ARTICLEInterdisciplinary Literary Studies2023

    This article examines Hannah Arendt’s contribution to notions of the “We” and tests key Arendtian concepts through relation and juxtaposition with philosophical and literary texts from different periods, thereby complicating discussions of (1) how individuals participate in, shape, and are shaped by various forms of “We”; (2) how, within collective participation, individuals come to care about being themselves; and (3) to what extent literary tex…

  • Group‐identification , collectivism, and perspectival autonomy

    Open AccessDan ZahaviARTICLEThe Southern Journal of Philosophy2023

    One of the aims of the 40th Annual Spindel Conference was to discuss whether the ongoing, but relatively distinct, investigations of relational autonomy and collective intentionality could crossfertilize. Whereas the concept of relational autonomy was developed to do justice to the relational character of selfhood, and as an alternative to traditional conceptions of autonomy, which were accused of exaggerating the self‐reliance and social indepen…

  • From communication to communalization: A Husserlian account

    Open AccessPatricia Meindl, Dan ZahaviARTICLEMan and World2023

  • Introduction: Husserl and community

    Open AccessThomas Szanto, Patricia Meindl et al.ARTICLEMan and World2023

  • Experience, Subjectivity, Selfhood: Beyond a Meadian Sociology of the Self

    Open AccessDan Zahavi, Dominik ŽelinskýARTICLEJournal for the Theory of Social…2023Cited by: 3References: 19

    Sociologists tend to see G. H. Mead's conceptualization of self as fundamentally correct. In this paper, we develop a critique of Mead's notion of the self as constituted through social interactions. Our focus will be on Mead's categorial distinction between the socially constructed self and subjective experience, as well as on the tendency of post‐Meadian sociologists to push Mead's position in ever more radical directions. Drawing inspiration f…

  • Critical phenomenology and psychiatry

    Open AccessDan Zahavi, Sophie LoidoltARTICLEMan and World2022

    Whereas classical Critical Theory has tended to view phenomenology as inherently uncritical, the recent upsurge of what has become known as critical phenomenology has attempted to show that phenomenological concepts and methods can be used in critical analyses of social and political issues. A recent landmark publication, 50 Concepts for Critical Phenomenology , contains no reference to psychiatry and psychopathology, however. This is an unfortun…

  • Individuality and community: The limits of social constructivism

    Open AccessDan ZahaviARTICLEEthos2022Cited by: 5References: 43

    Is selfhood socially constituted and distributed? Although the view has recently been defended by some cognitive scientists, it has long been popular within anthropology and cultural psychology. Whereas older texts by Marcel Mauss, Clifford Geertz, Hazel Rose Markus, and Shinobu Kitayama often contrast a Western conception of a discrete, bounded, and individual self with a non-Western sociocentric conception, it has more recently become common to…

  • El final de qué? Fenomenología vs. realismo especulativo

    Open AccessDan Zahavi, José Luis Romero et al.ARTICLEInvestigaciones Fenomenológicas2021

    La fenomenología ha sido atacada recientemente por los promotores del realismo especulativo. En este artículo presento y analizo estas críticas, y argumento que, o bien son superficiales y simplistas, o bien carecen de novedad.Key words: Phenomenology, speculative realism, correlationism, idealism, naturalism

  • Applied phenomenology: Why it is safe to ignore the epoché

    Open AccessDan ZahaviARTICLEMan and World2021

    The question of whether a proper phenomenological investigation and analysis requires one to perform the epoché and the reduction has not only been discussed within phenomenological philosophy. It is also very much a question that has been hotly debated within qualitative research. Amedeo Giorgi, in particular, has insisted that no scientific research can claim phenomenological status unless it is supported by some use of the epoché and reduction…

  • Fenomenologia nos estudos de enfermagem: Novas perspectivas

    Open AccessHugo Ribeiro Mota, Betânia Da Mata Ribeiro Gomes et al.ARTICLEVeritas (Porto Alegre)2021References: 3

    O objetivo deste artigo é, primeiro, apresentar e considerar as críticas de Paley com mais detalhes e, em seguida, discutir algumas das aplicações significativas da fenomenologia que muitas vezes foram negligenciadas pelos pesquisadores qualitativos. Como foi amplamente demonstrado ao longo dos anos, a fenomenologia pode não apenas fazer a diferença no manuseio, análise e interpretação dos dados disponíveis, mas também em como os dados são obtido…

  • We in Me or Me in We? Collective Intentionality and Selfhood

    Open AccessDan ZahaviARTICLEJournal of Social Ontology2021Cited by: 13References: 33

    The article takes issue with the proposal that dominant accounts of collective intentionality suffer from an individualist bias and that one should instead reverse the order of explanation and give primacy to the we and the community. It discusses different versions of thecommunity firstview and argues that they fail because they operate with too simplistic a conception of what it means to be a self and misunderstand what it means to be (part of)…

  • Dark and Bright Empathy: Phenomenological and Anthropological Reflections

    C Jason Throop, Jason Throop et al.ARTICLECurrent Anthropology2020Cited by: 15References: 56

    The aim of our contribution is to clarify the nature of empathy and its role in sociality. Taking issue with a recent proposal by Bubandt and Willerslev, we argue that their conceptualization and definition of empathy is confused, that they fail to distinguish sufficiently clearly between empathy and other forms of social cognition, and that their main claim, that empathy has a dark side to it and can be used for nefarious purposes, far from bein…

  • Thought insertion and disturbed for-me-ness (minimal selfhood) in schizophrenia

    Open AccessMads Gram Henriksen, Josef Parnas et al.ARTICLEConsciousness and Cognition2019

    In contemporary consciousness research, we have defended a position of experiential minimalism, arguing that for-me-ness (or minimal selfhood) is a necessary, universal feature of phenomenal consciousness. The concept of for-me-ness refers to the fact that experiences are given first-personally to the subject of experience. To challenge the universality of for-me-ness, several authors have referred to the case of thought insertion as a clear coun…

  • Reflexivity, Transparency, and Illusionism: Engaging Garfield

    Dan Zahavi, ProtoSociology ProjectARTICLEProtoSociology2019

    The notion of pre-reflective self-awareness is much more accepted today than 20 years ago and has become part of the standard repertoire in philosophy of mind. The notion’s increasing popularity has not surprisingly also led to an increasing amount of criticism. My focus in the present contribution will be on a particular radical objection that can be found in Jay Garfield’s book Engaging Buddhism. It seeks to undercut the appeal to pre-reflectiv…

  • Emotional sharing and the extended mind

    Open AccessFelipe Leon, Thomas Szanto et al.ARTICLESynthese2019Cited by: 7References: 60

  • Getting It Quite Wrong: Van Manen and Smith on Phenomenology

    Open AccessDan ZahaviARTICLEQualitative Health Research2019Cited by: 22References: 23

    Max van Manen and Jonathan Smith have recently had an exchange in Qualitative Health Research concerning their respective use of phenomenology. I welcome the attempt to get clearer on what phenomenology amounts to and I agree with van Manen that an overly arbitrary use of the term will lead to an erosion of the reputation of phenomenology. However, I think both of them are to blame for promoting various confusions concerning the nature of phenome…

  • Beyond Mirroring: 4E Perspectives on Empathy

    Dan Zahavi, John MichaelCHAPTERThe Oxford Handbook of 4E Cognition2018

    When considering the current debate on empathy, it quickly becomes evident that a diversity of definitions of and approaches to the topic are available, and that no consensus seems forthcoming. The aim of our contribution is not to resolve these disputes or to argue in favor of any one particular way of conceptualizing empathy. Instead, our aim is to open up a new perspective by exploring the potential of applying embodied, extended, enactive, an…

  • Jan Patočka’s Philosophical Legacy

    James Dodd, Dan ZahaviBOOKThe Oxford Handbook of the…2018

    This chapter sketches the trajectory of Jan Patočka’s philosophical development against the background of the conflicts and crises that marked the history of the twentieth century, and which profoundly affected the Czech philosopher. The relevant period spans from the 1930s, when Patočka studied under Edmund Husserl in Freiburg, to the philosopher’s activities as a dissident in 1970s Czechoslovakia. Particular attention is paid to Patočka’s deep …

  • Scheler on the Moral and Political Significance of the Emotions

    Zachary Davis, Anthony J Steinbock et al.BOOKThe Oxford Handbook of the…2018

    Max Scheler’s contribution to the development of phenomenology is marked perhaps most distinctively by his analysis of the emotions. Rather than treat the emotions as merely subjective or psychological, he grants them their own integrity and privileged means of access. The purpose of this chapter is to show how his phenomenological analysis of the emotions offers unique insights into the nature of moral and political responsibility. There are thr…

  • The Oxford Handbook of the History of Phenomenology

    Dan ZahaviBOOKThe Oxford Handbook of the…2018

  • How We Feel: Collective Emotions Without Joint Commitments

    Felipe Leon, Dan Zahavi et al.ARTICLEProtoSociology2018

    This article engages critically with Margaret Gilbert’s proposal that joint commitments are necessary for collective emotions. After introducing Gilbert’s concept of joint commitment (Section 2), and the joint commitment account of collective emotions (Section 3), we argue in Section 4 that research from developmental psychology challenges the necessity of joint commitments for collective emotions. In that section, we also raise a more principled…

  • Phenomenology

    Dan ZahaviBOOKPhenomenology2018