Core Team: Group Leader and Research Fellows

Hamid Taieb
Research Group Leader
Hamid Taieb is the leader of the DFG Emmy-Noether research group “A Sensible World”. He received his PhD from the University of Lausanne and École pratique des hautes études in Paris. He has held research or teaching positions at the Universities of Geneva, Hamburg, Lausanne, and Salzburg, and has made research stays at the École normale supérieure at Paris, HU Berlin, King’s College London, and the University of Gothenburg. He has written several works in the history of philosophy: first, in post-Kantian philosophy, from the School of Brentano to early phenomenology; and second, on the Aristotelian tradition, especially medieval scholastic authors. From a systematic point of view, he specializes in the philosophy of mind and ontology, but has also explored issues in epistemology and philosophy of language. In addition, he is interested in philosophy of law (before devoting himself to philosophy, he studied law at the University of Geneva).
Selected publications and work in progress
1. Relational Intentionality: Brentano and the Aristotelian Tradition, series “Primary Sources in Phenomenology”, Springer, Cham 2018.
2. (Ed.): Early Phenomenologists on the Sensory World: Selected Writings, translated with Lina de Boer and James Jardine, series “New Texts in the History of Philosophy”, Oxford: Oxford University Press (under contract).
3. with Stephan Schmid (eds.): A Philosophical History of the Concept, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (forthcoming).
4. “Reinach on the Essence of Colours”, Synthese 202/201 (2023), p. 1-19.
5. “A Case of Aristotelian-Scholastic Non-Realism about Sensible Qualities: Peter Auriol on Sounds and Odours”, Journal of the History of Philosophy 60/3 (2022), p. 385-407.
6. “A Paleo-Criticism of Modes of Being: Brentano and Marty against Bolzano, Husserl, and Meinong”, Ergo 7/32 (2021), p. 849-876.
7. “Ordinary Language Semantics: The Contribution of Brentano and Marty”, British Journal for the History of Philosophy 28/4 (2020), p. 777-796.
8. “Building Objective Thoughts: Stumpf, Twardowski and the Late Husserl on Psychic Products”, Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie 100/3 (2018), p. 336-370.
9. “Intentionality and Reference: A Brentanian Distinction”, The Monist 100/1 (2017), issue on “Brentano”, ed. Uriah Kriegel, p. 120-132.
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James Jardine
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
James Jardine is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow working within the DFG Emmy-Noether research group “A Sensible World”. He completed his PhD at the University of Copenhagen, enjoying doctoral research stays at Columbia University, the University of Cologne and the University of Vienna. He has since held postdoctoral research positions at University College Dublin, the University of Jyväskylä and the University of Parma. Specialising in Post-Kantian Philosophy, his publications have for the most part addressed figures affiliated with the phenomenological tradition – including Husserl, Stein and Fanon – with a focus on topics like empathy, the self, perception, emotion, dehumanization, attention, nature and personhood. In addition, his work engages phenomenological analysis with current debates from the philosophy of mind and critical theory.
Selected publications and work in progress
1. Empathy, Embodiment, and the Person: Husserlian Investigations of Social Experience and the Self,series “Phaenomenologica”, Springer, Cham 2022.
2. with Faustino Fabbianelli and Andrea Staiti (Ed.), The Palgrave Handbook of Transcendental, Neo-Kantian and Psychological Idealism, series “Palgrave Handbooks in German Idealism”, Palgrave Macmillan, London (under contract).
3. with Anya Daly, Dermot Moran and Fred Cummins (Ed.), Perception and the Inhuman Gaze: Perspectives from Philosophy, Phenomenology, and the Sciences,series “Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy”, Routledge, Oxon 2020.
4. “Envisioning Others Without Pretence: Edmund Husserl and Edith Stein on the Irreducibility, Complexity, and Value of Empathy”, in David James and Keith Ansell-Pearson (eds.), The Empathetic Emotions in the History of Philosophy. Oxford University Press, Oxford (in press).
5. “Empathy, as a Theme in Phenomenology”, in Nicolas De Warren and Ted Toadvine (eds.), The Springer Encylopedia of Phenomenology, Springer, Cham (in press).
6. with Sara Heinämaa, “Objectification, Inferiorization and Projection in Phenomenological Research on Dehumanization”, in Maria Kronfeldner (ed.), The Routledge Handbook of Dehumanization, Routledge, Oxon, 2021, 309-325.
7. “Social Invisibility and Emotional Blindness”, in Anya Daly, Fred Cummins, James Jardine and Dermot Moran (eds.), Perception and the Inhuman Gaze: Perspectives from Philosophy, Phenomenology, and the Sciences, Routledge, Oxon, 2020, 308-323.
8. “Edmund Husserl”, in Thomas Szanto and Hilge Landweer (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Phenomenology of Emotion, Routledge, Oxon, 2020, 53-62.
9. “Elementary Recognition and Empathy: A Husserlian Account”, Metodo: International Studies in Phenomenology and Philosophy, 5/1 (2017): 143-170.
10. “Stein and Honneth on Empathy and Emotional Recognition”, Human Studies, 38/4 (2015): 567-589.
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Lina de Boer
Doctoral Research Fellow
Lina de Boer studied philosophy and history at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and the University of Edinburgh as an undergraduate student and did a Master’s degree in philosophy at Freie Universität Berlin. In her dissertation she is working on a systematic, comparative treatement of the topic of the lived body and embodied experience in early phenomenology (especially Stein, Scheler, Conrad-Martius and Husserl).
Student Assistants

Maria Stäcker
Student Assistant
Maria Stäcker supports the research group “A Sensible World” as a student assistant. She studied philosophy and sociology as an undergraduate at Heidelberg University and the University of Tübingen and is currently pursuing a Master’s degree in philosophy at HU Berlin. During her studies, she spent one year in Paris at Sorbonne Université and the École normale supérieure.
Visiting Researchers
Academic year 2023-2024:
Arthur Veenstra
PhD Student, University of Amsterdam
Stay: April 2024-June 2024
Jaka Makuc
PhD Student, University of Bologna
Stay: October 2023-September 2024
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Academic year 2022-2023:
Jaka Makuc
PhD Student, University of Bologna
Stay: April 2023-July 2023
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Sara Borriello
PhD Student, University of Roma “Tor Vergata”
Stay: Nov 2022-Jan 2023
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