Preparatory material for the Summer School
Here you will find a number of resources that we and our keynote lecturers have provided to prepare you for the Summer School. Even if you are familiar with phenomenology in your own studies, the below materials should be helpful to orient you to the specific topics that will be covered during the sessions.
We have prepared a video presentation that will introduce you to basic ideas in phenomenology. We especially encourage those of you who are not already familiar with phenomenology to see the video.
Readings recommended by our keynotes
We also encourage you to take a look at the following readings before arriving in Copenhagen. The readings were identified as relevant for understanding the lectures and will be part of the group discussions. We thus strongly recommend that you read them as preparation for attending the Summer School.
Note: You will need an academia.edu account (free of charge) to access some of the readings.
Dan Zahavi
- Gallagher and D. Zahavi, "Phenomenological Approaches to Self-Consciousness", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Summer 2025 Edition), Edward N. Zalta & Uri Nodelman (eds.)
- M. Kyselo “The body social: an enactive approach to the self.” Front Psychol. 2014 Sep 12;5:986.
Louise Richardson
- Michaelian, Kourken & Sutton, John (2017). Collective memory. In Kirk Ludwig & Marija Jankovic, The Routledge Handbook of Collective Intentionality. New York: Routledge. pp. 140-151.
- Debus, Dorothea & Richardson, Louise (2022). 'Rather than Succour, My Memories Bring Eloquent Stabs of Pain' On the Ambiguous Role of Memory in Grief. Journal of Consciousness Studies 29 (9-10):36-62. (Open access)
Thomas Fuchs
- Fuchs, T (2024). Understanding Sophia? On human interaction with artificial agents. Phenom Cogn Sci 23, 21–42.
- Cibotaru, V (2024). For a contextualist and content-related understanding of the difference between human and artificial intelligence. Phenom Cogn Sci 23, 1053–1071.
Inga Römer
- Husserl’s Vorlesungen zur Phänomenologie des inneren Zeitbewußtseins, especially §§ 11-14, 19, 36, 39, Beilagen I, IX, XII
- Emmanuel Levinas’ "Intentionalité et sensation"