Center for Subjectivity Research
General Aim of the Center
Since 2002 the Center for Subjectivity Research (CFS) has carried out research on consciousness, selfhood, intersubjectivity and sociality from an interdisciplinary perspective. Its explorations explicitly seek to further the integration of different philosophical traditions, in particular phenomenology and analytic philosophy of mind. At the same time, CFS is promoting dialogue between philosophy and empirical science, in particular psychiatry, clinical psychology, cognitive science, developmental psychology, sociology, anthropology, and political theory.
Over the years, the center staff has worked systematically on topics such as intentionality, imagination, empathy, action, perception, embodiment, naturalism, selfhood, self-consciousness, self-disorders, schizophrenia, autism, normativity, anxiety, shame, trust, collective intentionality, and emotions. It has also conducted scholarly work on classical thinkers such as Kant, Hegel, Kierkegaard, Brentano, Husserl, Stein, Scheler, Walther, Heidegger, Wittgenstein, Sartre, Merleau-Ponty, Levinas and Ricoeur. Throughout, the research has been driven by the conviction that a variety of different philosophical and empirical perspectives on subjectivity can lead to mutual enlightenment and that such methodological and conceptual pluralism is what is acutely needed in the contemporary debate.
In this video, the director of the Center for Subjectivity Research (CFS), Dan Zahavi, talks about the structure and focus of CFS.
Activities 2002-2012
From 2002-2012 the Center for Subjectivity Research was funded by the Danish National Research Foundation as a Center of Excellence.
At the end of the funding period a small volume was published outlining important acomplishments throughout these years.
See the volume CFS 2002-2012.