Merleau-Ponty on shared emotions and the joint ownership thesis

Continental Philosophy Review

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 509-531

  Krueger, Joel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Developmental psychology; Emotions; Intersubjectivity; Merleau Ponty; Social cognition

Indexed keywords

EID: 84892533634     PISSN: 13872842     EISSN: 15731103     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11007-013-9278-5     Document Type: Article

References (93)

1. Alberts, E., A. F. Kalverboer, and B. Hopkins. 1983. Mother-infant dialogue in the first days of life: An observational study during breast-feeding. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry and Allied Disciplines 24(1): 145-161.
2. Bates, Elizabeth, Luigia Camaioni, and Virginia Volterra. 1975. The acquisition of performatives prior to speech. Merrill Palmer Quarterly 21: 205-226.
3. Beebe, Beatrice, and Louis Gerstman. 1984. A method of defining 'packages' of maternal stimulation and their functional significance for the infant with mother and stranger. International Journal of Behavioral Development 7(4): 423-440.
4. Beebe, Beatrice, and Frank M. Lachmann. 1998. Co-constructing inner and relational processes: Self-and mutual regulation in infant research and adult treatment. Psychoanalytic Psychology 15(4): 480-516.
5. Bermudez, Jose Luis. 1998. The paradox of self-consciousness. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press/Bradford Press.
6. Butterworth, George, and Nicholas Jarrett. 1991. What minds have in common is space: Spatial mechanisms serving joint visual attention in infancy. British Journal of Developmental Psychology 9(1): 55-72.
7. Campbell, John. 2002. Reference and consciousness. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
8. Carruthers, Peter. 1989. Brute experience. The Journal of Philosophy 86(5): 258-269.
9. DeCasper, Anthony J., Jean-Pierre Lecanuet, Marie-Claire Busnel, Carolyn Granier-Deferre, and Roselyne Maugeais. 1994. Fetal reactions to recurrent maternal speech. Infant Behavior and Development 17(2): 159-164.
10. Eilan, Naomi. 2007. Consciousness, self-consciousness, and communication. In Reading Merleau-Ponty on phenomenology of perception, ed. Thomas Baldwin, 118-138. New York: Routledge.
11. Feldman, Ruth. 2007. On the origins of background emotions: From affect synchrony to symbolic expression. Emotion 7(3): 601-611.
12. Field, Tiffany M. 1981. Infant arousal, attention, and affect during early interactions. In Advances in infancy research, ed. Lewis P. Lipsitt and Carolyn K. Rovee-Collier, 1: 57-100. Norwood, NJ: Ablex.
13. Froese, Tom, and Ezequiel A. Di Paolo. 2010. Modelling social interaction as perceptual crossing: An investigation into the dynamics of the interaction process. Connection Science 22(1): 43-68.
14. Fuchs, Thomas. 2010. Phenomenology and psychopathology. In Handbook of phenomenology and cognitive science, ed. Daniel Schmicking, and Shaun Gallagher, 546-573. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.
15. Gallagher, Shaun. 2005. How the body shapes the mind. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
16. Gallagher, Shaun. 2008. Intersubjectivity in perception. Continental Philosophy Review 41(2): 163-178.
17. Gallagher, Shaun, and Dan Zahavi. 2008. The phenomenological mind: An introduction to philosophy of mind and cognitive science. New York: Routledge.
18. Gallese, Vittorio. 2001. The 'shared manifold' hypothesis: From mirror neurons to empathy. Journal of Consciousness Studies 8(5-7): 33-50.
19. Goldman, Alvin. 2006. Simulating minds: The philosophy, psychology, and neuroscience of mindreading. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
20. Gopnik, Alison. 1996. Theories and modules: Creation myths, developmental realities, and neurath's boat. In Theories of theories of mind, ed. Peter Carruthers, and Peter K. Smith, 169-183. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
21. Gopnik, Alison. 2008. Why babies are more conscious than we are. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 30(5-6): 503-504.
22. Gopnik, Alison. 2009. The philosophical baby: What children's minds tell us about truth, love, and the meaning of life. New York: Farrar Straus and Giroux.
23. Gopnik, Alison, and Henry M. Wellman. 1992. Why the child's theory of mind really is a theory. Mind & Language 7(1-2): 145-171.
24. Greenwood, Jennifer. 2013. Contingent transcranialism and deep functional cognitive integration: The case of human emotional ontogenesis. Philosophical Psychology 26(3): 420-436.
25. Gurwitsch, Aron. 1979. Human encounters in the social world. Ed. Alexandre Metraux. Trans. Fred Kersten. Pittsburgh: Duquesne University Press.
26. Hass, Lawrence. 2008. Merleau-Ponty's philosophy. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
27. Hayes, Alan. 1984. Interaction, engagement and the origins of communication: some constructive concerns. In The origins and growth of communications, eds. Lynne Feagans, Roberta Michnick Golinkoff, and Catherine Garvey, 136-161. Norwood, NJ: Ablex.
28. Hobson, Peter. 2005. What puts jointness into joint attention? In Joint attention: Communication and other minds, ed. Naomi Eilan, Christoph Hoerl, Teresa McCormack, and Johannes Roessler, 185-204. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
29. Hopkins, Brian. 1983. The development of early non-verbal communication: An evaluation of its meaning. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry and Allied Disciplines 24(1): 131-144.
30. De Jaegher, Hanne, and Ezequiel Di Paolo. 2007. Participatory sense-making. Phenomenology and the cognitive sciences 6(4): 485-507. doi: 10. 1007/s11097-007-9076-9.
31. James, William. 1950. The principles of psychology, Vols. 1 and 2. New York: Dover.
32. Johnson, Mark H., Suzanne Dziurawiec, Hadyn Ellis, and John Morton. 1991. Newborns' preferential tracking of face-like stimuli and its subsequent decline. Cognition 40(1-2): 1-19.
33. Jones, Susan S. 2009. The development of imitation in infancy. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences 364(1528): 2325-2335.
34. Kaye, Kelley L., and T. G. R. Bower. 1994. Learning and intermodal transfer of information in newborns. Psychological Science 5(5): 286.
35. Kaye, Kenneth. 1982. The mental and social life of babies: How parents create persons. Chicago: Chicago University Press.
36. Krueger, Joel. 2008. Levinasian reflections on somaticity and the ethical self. Inquiry an Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 51(6): 603-626.
37. Krueger, Joel. 2012. Seeing mind in action. Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences 11(2): 149-173.
38. Krueger, Joel. 2013. Ontogenesis of the socially extended mind. Cognitive Systems Research 25-26: 40-46.
39. Krueger, Joel, and Søren Overgaard. 2012. Seeing subjectivity: Defending a perceptual account of other minds. In ProtoSociology: Consciousness and subjectivity, Ed. Sofia Miguens and Gerhard Preyer. 47: 239-262.
40. Kugiumutzakis, Giannis, Theano Kokkinaki, Maria Makrodimitraki, and Elena Vitalaki. 2005. Emotions in early mimesis. In Emotional development: Recent research advances, ed. Jacqueline Nadel, and Darwin Muir, 161-182. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
41. Legerstee, Maria. 1991. The role of person and object in eliciting early imitation. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology 51(3): 423-433.
42. Legerstee, Maria. 2005. Infants' sense of people: Precursors to a theory of mind. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
43. Luria, Alexander R. 1973. The working brain. London: Penguin Books.
44. Lutz, Antoine, John Dunne, J. Richard, and R. J. Davidson. 2007. Meditation and the neuroscience of consciousness: An introduction. In The Cambridge handbook of consciousness, ed. Morris Moscovitch, Evan Thompson, and Philip David Zelazo, 499-545. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
45. Malcolm, Norman. 1962. Knowledge of other minds. In The philosophy of mind, ed. Vere Claiborne Chappell. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall.
46. Marlier, Luc, Benoist Schaal, and Robert Soussignan. 1998. Neonatal responsiveness to the odor of amniotic and lacteal fluids: A test of perinatal chemosensory continuity. Child Development 69(3): 611-623.
47. Meltzoff, Andrew N., and Richard W. Borton. 1979. Intermodal matching by human neonates. Nature 282(5737): 403-404.
48. Meltzoff, Andrew N., and M. Keith Moore. 1997. Explaining facial imitation: A theoretical model. Early Development and Parenting 6: 179-192.
49. Merleau-Ponty, Maurice. 1964a. Signs. Trans. Richard C. McCleary, 1st ed. Evanston: Northwestern University Press.
50. Merleau-Ponty, Maurice. 1964b. The child's relations with others. In The primacy of perception, ed. James Edie, trans. William Cobb, 96-155. Evanston: Northwestern University Press.
51. Merleau-Ponty, Maurice. 1968. The visible and the invisible. Trans. Alphonso Lingis. Evanston: Northwestern University Press.
52. Merleau-Ponty, Maurice. 2002. Phenomenology of perception. Trans. Colin Smith. New York: Routledge.
53. Merleau-Ponty, Maurice. 2010. Child psychology and pedagogy: The sorbonne lectures 1949-1952. Trans. Talia Welsh. Evanston: Northwestern University Press.
54. Mondloch, Catherine J., Terri L. Lewis, D. Robert Budreau, Daphne Maurer, James L. Dannemiller, Benjamin R. Stephens, and Kathleen A. Kleiner-Gathercoal. 1999. Face perception during early infancy. Psychological Science 10(5): 419-422.
55. Morton, John, and Mark H. Johnson. 1991. CONSPEC and CONLERN: a two-process theory of infant face recognition. Psychological Review 98(2): 164-181.
56. Murphy, Catherine M. 1978. Pointing in the context of a shared activity. Child Development 49(2): 371-380.
57. Murray, Lynn, and Colwyn Trevarthen. 1985. Emotional regulation of interactions between two month-olds and their mothers. In Social perception in infants, ed. Tiffany M. Field, and Nathan Fox. Norwood, NJ: Ablex.
58. Niedenthal, Paula M. 2007. Embodying emotion. Science 316(5827): 1002-1005.
59. Neisser, Ulric. 1995. Criteria for an ecological self. In The self in infancy, ed. Philippe Rochat, 17-53. Amsterdam: Elsevier.
60. O'Neill, John. 1986. The specular body: Merleau-Ponty and Lacan on infant self and other. Synthese 66(2): 201-217.
61. Overgaard, Søren. 2007. Wittgenstein and other minds: Rethinking subjectivity and intersubjectivity with Wittgenstein, Levinas, and Husserl. London: Routledge.
62. Overgaard, Søren. 2013. Other people. In The oxford handbook of contemporary phenomenology, ed. Dan Zahavi. New York: Oxford University Press.
63. Plantinga, Judy, and Laurel J. Trainor. 2009. Melody recognition by two-month-old infants. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 125(2): EL58-EL62.
64. Posner, Michael, and Marky K. Rothbart. 1998. Attention, self-regulation, and consciousness. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences 353: 1915-1927.
65. Premack, David, and Guy Woodruff. 1978. Does the chimpanzee have a theory of mind? The Behavioral and Brain Sciences 1: 515-526.
66. Ratcliffe, Matthew. 2008. Feelings of being: Phenomenology, psychiatry and the sense of reality, 1st ed. New York, USA: Oxford University Press.
67. Rochat, Philippe. 2009. Others in mind: Social origins of self-consciousness. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
68. Rochat, Philippe, and Susan J. Hespos. 1997. Differential rooting response by neonates: Evidence for an early sense of self. Early Development and Parenting 6(34): 105-112.
69. Rochat, Philippe (ed.). 1999. Early social cognition. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.
70. Rothbart, M. K. 1989. Temperament and development. In Temperament in childhood, ed. John E. Bates, Mary Klevjord Rothbart, and Geldolph A. Kohnstamm. New York: Wiley.
71. Ryle, Gilbert. 1949. The concept of mind. London: Hutchins' University Library.
72. Sartre, Jean-Paul. 1956. Being and nothingness. Tran. Hazel E. Barnes. New York: Washington Square Press.
73. Scheler, Max. 1954. The nature of sympathy. Trans. Peter Heath. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul.
74. Slaby, J. 2013. Emotions and the extended mind. In Collective emotions, ed. Mikko Salmela, and Christian Von Scheve. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
75. Slater, Alan, and Paul C. Quinn. 2001. Face recognition in the newborn infant. Infant and Child Development 10(1-2): 21-24.
76. Solomon, Robert. 2004. Emotions, thoughts, and feelings: Emotions and engagements with the world. In Thinking about feeling: Contemporary philosophers on emotions, ed. Robert Solomon, 76-88. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
77. Standley, Jayne M., and Clifford K. Madsen. 1990. Comparison of infant preferences and responses to auditory stimuli: Music, mother, and other female voice. Journal of Music Therapy 27: 54-97.
78. Stawarska, Beata. 2009. Between you and I: Dialogical phenomenology, 1st ed. Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press.
79. Stern, Daniel. 1985. The interpersonal world of the infant: A view from psychoanalysis and developmental psychology. New York: Basic books.
80. Stern, Daniel. 1995. Self/other differentiation in the domain of intimate socio-affective interaction: Some considerations. In The self in infancy: Theory and research, ed. Philippe Rochat, 419-429. Amsterdam: Elsevier.
81. Stern, Daniel. 2010. Forms of vitality: Exploring dynamic experience in psychology, the arts, psychotherapy, and development. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
82. Thompson, Evan. 2001. Empathy and consciousness. Journal of Consciousness Studies 8(5-7): 1-32.
83. Thompson, Evan. 2007. Mind in life: Biology, phenomenology, and the sciences of mind. Cambridge: Belknapp Press.
84. Trevarthen, Colwyn. 1979. Communication and cooperation in early infancy: A description of primary intersubjectivity. In Before speech: The beginning of interpersonal communication, ed. Margaret Bullowa, 321-347. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
85. Tronick, Edward. 2005. Why is connection with others so critical? The formation of dyadic states of consciousness and the expansion of individuals' states of consciousness: Coherence governed selection and the co-creation of meaning out of messy meaning making. In Emotional development: Recent research advances, ed. Jacqueline Nadel, and Darwin Muir, 293-316. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
86. Tronick, Edward Z., Heidelise Als, and Lauren Adamson. 1979. Structure of early face-to-face communicative interactions. In Before speech: The beginning of interpersonal communication, ed. Margaret Bullowa, 349-370. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
87. Tronick, Edward Z., Nadia Bruschweiler-Stern, Alexandra M. Harrison, Karlen Lyons-Ruth, Alexander C. Morgan, Jeremy P. Nahum, Louis Sander, and Daniel N. Stern. 1998. Dyadically expanded states of consciousness and the process of therapeutic change. Infant Mental Health Journal 19(3): 290-299. doi: 10. 1002/(SICI)1097-0355(199823)19: 3<290: AID-IMHJ4>3. 0. CO;2-Q.
88. Walsh, Roger. 2005. Can synaesthesia be cultivated? Implications from surveys of meditators. Journal of Consciousness Studies 12(4-5): 5-17.
89. Welsh, Talia. 2007. Primal experience in Merleau-Ponty's philosophy and psychology. Radical Psychology A Journal of Psychology Politics & Radicalism 6(1): 1-7.
90. Wexler, Bruce. 2008. Brain and culture: Neurobiology, ideology, and social change. Cambridge: MIT Press.
91. Zahavi, Dan. 2011. Empathy and direct social perception: A phenomenological proposal. Review of Philosophy and Psychology 2(3): 541-558.
92. Zeedyk, M. Suzanne. 2006. From intersubjectivity to subjectivity: The transformative roles of emotional intimacy and imitation. Infant and Child Development 15(3): 321-344.
93. Zelazo, Philip David. 1996. Towards a characterization of minimal consciousness. New Ideas in Psychology 14(1): 63-80.