In this paper, I relate concepts from research (mainly psychological) on intersubjectivity to problems emerging in designing classroom learning environments by considering one of my undergraduate teacher education classrooms, which I designed to run according to an educational philosophy of `community of learnersa, and I consider the issues emerging from these e!orts. It seems that the notion o...

Drawing on the work of Scheler, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, Husserl and Sartre, this article presents an overview of some of the diverse approaches to intersubjectivity that can be found in the phenomenological tradition. Starting with a brief description of Scheler’s criticism of the argument from analogy, the article continues by showing that the phenomenological analyses of intersubjectivity i...

Drawing on the work of Scheler, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, Husserl and Sartre, this article presents an overview of some of the diverse approaches to intersubjectivity that can be found in the phenomenological tradition. Starting with a brief description of Scheler’s criticism of the argument from analogy, the article continues by showing that the phenomenological analyses of intersubjectivity i...

I confess to a degree of ambivalence in writing a paper on the relevance of the concept of intersubjectivity for psychoanalytic theory and practice. The concept has been around for the better part of a century, and while its history is unclear Husserl was apparently the first philosopher to employ the term as a fundamental facet of his philosophy, making it a cardinal principle of his philosoph...

Virtual environments are able to extend the space of interaction beyond the classroom. In order to analyze how distributed cognition functions in such an extended space, we suggest focusing on the architecture of intersubjectivity. The Euroland project—a virtual land created and populated by seven classrooms supported by a team of researchers—was analyzed with the aim of tracking down the proce...

1 Gallese, V. (2014). Bodily selves in relation: embodied simulation as second-person perspective on intersubjectivity. Philos.Trans.R.Soc.Lond B Biol.Sci., 369, 20130177. Notes: This article addresses basic aspects of social cognition focusing on the pivotal role played by the lived body in the constitution of our experience of others. It is suggested that before studying intersubjectivity we ...

In this paper we address intersubjectivity, which is of particular relevance to those who wish to understand how learning is produced within complex group work. A conceptual framework for intersubjectivity is developed based on a review of past research with a starting point in the work of Rommetveit, a Norwegian social psychologist. The framework is applied to the analysis of a mature open sou...

1) Evolutionary advantages of intersubjectivity and self-consciousness: * Anxiety limitation process (1), (2), (3): Intersubjectivity and identification with suffering/endangered conspecifics => anxiety increase. Anxiety limitation by development of Empathy, Imitation, Language, Group life, Intersubjectivity. Positive feedback. Evolutionary advantage. * Action programs improvements: Intersubjec...