Thomas Szanto
PhD (Vienna)
IRC Postdoctoral Research Fellow
E-mail: thomas.szanto@ucd.ie
Research interests: Husserl and Early Phenomenology, Philosophy of Mind and Cognition, Social Ontology, Collective Intentionality.
I have worked as a lecturer at University of Vienna and the University of Klagenfurt (Austria), and have held research positions at the University of Vienna, the Austrian Academy of Science and the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna. I am currently a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in philosophy at UCD.
My recent research focuses on current reassessments of the group mind hypothesis and on the boundaries of the mental, both within the framework of analytic philosophy of mind and social ontology.
At UCD I will collaborate with Dermot Moran on the project Discovering the “We”: The Phenomenology of Sociality (funded by the Irish Research Council). In particular, I shall investigate the conception of “higher-order personalities” and social collectivities in early phenomenology (esp. Husserl, Scheler, Stein and Otaka).
Publications (Selection)
(Monograph): Bewusstsein, Intentionalität und Mentale Repräsentation. Husserl und die Analytische Philosophie des Geistes. Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter 2012.
(Under review): “How to Share a Mind. Reconsidering the Group Mind Thesis.”
„Wer hat Angst vor grenzenlosen Geistern? Vom Extended Mind zum Gruppengeist und zurück.“ In: E. Nemeth/A. Dunshirn/G. Unterthurner (Eds.): Crossing Borders. Proceedings of the IX. International Congress of the Austrian Society for Philosophy. Vienna 2012, pp. 1-12 (published online).
„Ist das Bewusstsein im Selbst? Eine phänomenologische Kritik (meta)repräsentationaler Theorien des Selbstbewusstseins.“ In: Ch. Hiebaum/M. Fürst/W. Gombocz (Eds.): Brains and Persons. Proceedings of the VIII. International Congress of the Austrian Society for Philosophy. Frankfurt./Lancaster: Ontos 2009, pp. 167-178.
„Impliziert der intentionale Irrealismus einen psychologischen Eliminativismus? Fodor und das Problem psychologischer Erklärungen.“ In: A. Hieke/H. Leitgeb (Eds.): Reduction and Elimination in Philosophy and the Sciences. Proceedings of the 31. International Wittgenstein-Symposion. Kirchberg am Wechsel 2008, pp. 343-346.
„Zeitbewusstsein und Reflexion. Zum Problem der Intentionalanalyse in der Phänomenologie Husserls“. In: M. Blamauer/W. Fasching/M. Flatscher (Eds.): Phänomenologische Aufbrüche. Frankfurt/New York: Lang 2005, pp. 33-47.
„Die Zeit des Anderen. Zeitlichkeit und Intersubjektivität bei E. Husserl“. In: O. Neumaier/C. Sedmak/M. Zichy (Hg.): Philosophical Perspectives. Proceedings of the VII. International Congress of the Austrian Society for Philosophy. Frankfurt/Lancaster: Ontos 2005, pp. 496-501.
Webpage
http://univie.academia.edu/ThomasSzanto
