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Karen Blixens Plads 8, 2300 København S
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AoS: Phenomenology, Philosophy of Mind and Action, Philosophy of Emotion, Social Ontology, Social Cognition, Philosophy of the Social Sciences
AoC: Epistemology, Metaphysics, Philosophy of Language, Critical Thinking, (Applied and Meta-)Ethics
Currently, I am Postdoctoral Visiting Researcher, visiting the CFS from the University of Jyväskylä (Finland), where I am employed as a University Researcher in the research project MEPA: "Marginalization and Experience: Phenomenological Analyses of Normality and Abnormality" (PI: Professor Sara Heinämaa). More on this project here:
https://www.jyu.fi/hytk/fi/laitokset/yfi/en/research/projects/mepa/about
My MEPA sub-project “Antagonistic Political Emotions: An Integrative Account” aims at elaborating the phenomenological nature, the intentional structure and the appropriateness conditions, or normativity, of antagonistic political emotions (APE). Moreover, it shall shed new light on the socio-psychological mechanisms that underlie in-group/out-group demarcations and lead to the individual habitualization and group-level sedimentation of APE. To achieve this aim, the project will propose a novel, collective affective intentionality account of APE, according to which paradigmatic political emotions are affectively shared evaluative perspectives towards concerns of political import and structurally exhibit a specific form of antagonism. Among paradigmatic APE, the project will primarily focus on collective and inter-group hatred and Ressentiment. In terms of methodology, the project will endorse a pluralistic and integrative approach, drawing on classical phenomenology (esp. Scheler and Kolnai), contemporary philosophy of (collective) emotions and the relevant strands in the empirical and social sciences, notably work on emotional habitus from the sociology of emotions, social identification and inter-group emotion theory, studies on affective political sophistication from political psychology and research on emotions from the political sciences.
Previously, I have been employed at CFS as a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Research Fellow (May 2016 - April 2018), working on my two-year research project, "SHARE: Shared Emotions, Group Membership, and Empathy", which is funded by the European Commission Horizon-2020 Research Innovation Framework Programme (SHARE-655067). You can find more about SHARE here:
http://cfs.ku.dk/research-activities/researchprojects/share/about-the-project/
Before starting SHARE, I have also spent two Postdoc years at CFS on a related VELUX Fonden research project, entitled “Empathy and Interpersonal Understanding”.
And before I came to Copenhagen, I was a Postdoc at UCD Dublin (2012-2013) and Adjunct Lecturer at several universities in Austria, including the University of Vienna.
You can find more information about my work and access my publications here:
https://ku-dk.academia.edu/ThomasSzanto
2010 PhD in Philosophy (Dr. phil.) (summa cum laude), University of Vienna
2004 MA in Philosophy (Mag. phil.) (summa cum laude), University of Vienna
2018 - 2019 University Researcher, University of Jyväskylä, Affiliated Academy of Finland Research Project: “Marginalization and Experience: Phenomenological Analyses of Normality and Abnormality” (PI: Sara Heinämaa) (14 months)
2016 - 2018 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Center for Subjectivity Research, University of Copenhagen; Research Project: SHARE: “Shared Emotions, Group Membership and Empathy” (24 months)
2017 Visiting Researcher at the DFG-Collaborative Research Center “Affective Societies”, Free University Berlin (3 months)
2014 - 2016 Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Center for Subjectivity Research, University of Copenhagen
2012 - 2013 Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University College Dublin, School of Philosophy
2008 - 2014 Lecturer (Adjunct), University of Vienna, Department of Philosophy
2010 - 2012 Lecturer (Adjunct), University of Klagenfurt, Department of Philosophy
2010 Teaching Fellow, University of Applied Pedagogy, Vienna
2006 - 2007 Teaching Fellow, Medical University of Graz
2005 - 2006 Junior Visiting Fellow, Institute for Human Sciences, Vienna
2002 - 2003 Visiting Graduate Student, Université Paris 8
2016 - 2018 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship (score: 96.2/100) (24 months)
2013 UCD SEEDS Grant, University College Dublin (co-applicant, twice)
2012 Publication Grant, University of Vienna
2012 Travel Grant, Austrian Research Community
2009 - 2010 Research Scholarship, University of Vienna (12 months)
2005 - 2007 DOC-Scholarship, Austrian Academy of Science (24 month)
2005 - 2006 Junior Visiting Fellowship, Institute for Human Sciences, Vienna
2004 Grant for Excellent Studies, University of Vienna
2002 - 2003 Erasmus Scholarship, Université Paris 8
Oct. 11-12, 2018 International Conference: “From Shame to Disgust and Hatred: Philosophical and Empirical Perspectives on Political Emotions”, University of Helsinki (organized with S. Heinämaa, M. Salmela)
Jun. 13-15, 2018 Symposium: “The Politics of Resentment and Ressentiment”, 5th Annual Conference the European Philosophical Society for the Study of Emotions (EPSSE), Tallinn
May 2019 "Can Hatred be ever Appropriate?" (Guest Seminar) Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory, University of Belgrade (invited)
May 2019 "The Politics of Ressentiment: From Value-Illusion to False Solidarity." Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory, University of Belgrade (invited)
Apr. 2019 "Political Atmospheres and Political Emotions", Workshop Atmospheres of Shared Emotion, University of Vienna (invited)
Mar. 2019 "The Politics of Ressentiment: From Value-Illusion to False Solidarity." Workshop: Hostile Emotions: Philosophical and Psychological Perspectives, Center for Interdisciplinary Research (ZiF), University of Bielefeld (invited)
Oct. 2018 (with Jan Slaby): "Affects and Emotions: What Makes them Political?", Conference: From Shame to Disgust and Hatred: Philosophical and Empirical Perspectives on Political Emotions, University of Helsinki
Sept. 2018 "From Empathy to Emotional Co-Regulation and Shared Body Schemas", Performative Symposium; Corporeality: On Practicing Empathy and Embodiment, Museum Folkwang, Essen (invited)
Sept. 2018 "Essential Normativism about Collective Belief", Workshop: Non-reductive Accounts of Shared Intentionality, University of Copenhagen (invited)
Aug. 2018 "Situated Emotions and Emotional Self-Alienation", Round Table “Situated Approaches to Emotions and Affectivity”, XXIV World Conference of Philosophy, Beijing (invited)
Jun. 2018 "The Politics of Ressentiment: A Collective Affective Intentionality Account", 5th Annual Conference the European Philosophical Society for the Study of Emotions (EPSSE), Tallinn (invited)
Apr. 2018 "Ressentiment: A Collective Affective Intentionality Account", ‘Phenomenology of Solidarity: Community, Practice and Politics’: The 16th Annual Conference of the Nordic Society for Phenomenology, Gdansk (refereed)
Feb. 2018 "Stein and Walther on Shared Emotions: A Critical Comparison", Workshop: Early Phenomenology on Affective Sharing, FU Berlin (invited)
Nov. 2017 "Imagining Collectives", Conference: Perspectives on Personhood and Communality: Emotions, Norms, and Imagination, University of Helsinki (invited)
Sept. 2017 "Kollektiver Hass", Die Phänomenologie und das Politische, Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Phänomenologie, Fern-Universität Hagen (refereed)
Aug. 2017 "Collective Hatred", 5th Conference of the European Network on Social Ontology (ENSO V), Lund University (refereed)
Jun. 2017 "Empathy and Imaginative Resistance", Empathies Conference, University of Basel (invited)
May 2017 "Emotional Self-Alienation", Collaborative Research Center Affective Societies, FU Berlin (invited)
May 2017 (with Alba Montes Sánchez) "Imagining Collectives", Conference: Shared Cultural Contexts, Center for Subjectivity Research, University of Copenhagen
Apr. 2017 "Situated Emotions and Emotional Self-Alienation", Workshop: Affective Spaces, Center for Subjectivity Research, University of Copenhagen (invited)
Apr. 2017 "Distrusting Collectives", University of Linköping (invited)
Mar. 2017 "Social Identity and Social Perception Biases", CFS Spring School: Direct Perception and Other Minds, Center for Subjectivity Research, University of Copenhagen
Mar. 2017 "Shared Emotions: Re-Assessing the Phenomenological Account." Charles University Prague (invited)
Mar. 2017 "Essential Normativism about Collective Belief", Hradec University (invited)
Feb. 2017 "Extended Emotions and Emotional Alienation", University of Verona (invited)
Nov. 2016 "Shared Emotions: Re-Assessing the Phenomenological Account", Sketches of a Social Phenomenology. University of Liège (invited)
Oct. 2016 "The Temporality of Negative Collective Emotions: The Case of Hatred", Time and Intentionality, University of Montreal (invited)
Sept. 2016 "The Temporality of Collective Emotions", Collective Intentionality X, Den Haag (refereed)
Jun. 2016 "The Temporality of Negative Collective Emotions: The Case of Hatred", European Society for the Philosophy of Emotions, Athens (refereed)
Apr. 2016 (with Alessandro Salice): "Terrorism and Distrust: A Collective Agency Account", CFS Workshop We-identity and its Social and Political Implications, University of Copenhagen (invited)
Mar. 2016 "Shared Emotions: Phenomenological and Empirical Perspectives", Center for Phenomenological Studies, Trnava University, Slovakia (invited)
Mar. 2016 "Collective Irrationality and Collective Wrongdoing", Center for Phenomenological Studies, Trnava University, Slovakia (invited)
Feb. 2016 "Stein and Walther on Shared Emotions: A Critical Comparison", Women Phenomenologists on Social Ontology, Paderborn University (invited)
Jan. 2016: "A Phenomenological Account of Shared Emotions." Consciousness & Cognition Research Colloquium, Ruhr-Universität Bochum Bochum (invited)
Sept. 2015: (with Alba Sanchez Montes) "Imagining Collectives and Collective Imagination", 4th Conference of the European Network on Social Ontology, University of Palermo (refereed)
July 2015: "Imagining Collectives and Collective Imagination", Imagination, Intersubjectivity, and Perspective-Taking, Villa Vigoni, Loveno di Menaggio, Como (invited)
July 2015: (with Joel Krueger): "Emotional Co-Regulation and Social Identification: An Embodied Approach", 2015 Conference of the International Society for Research on Emotions, (ISRE 2015), University of Geneva (refereed)
May 2015 (with Joel Krueger): "Emotional Co-Regulation and Social Identification", Emapthy, Group Membership and We-Intentionality, University of Copenhagen
Apr. 2015: "Empathy, Direct Perception, and Disjunctivism", 13th Annual Meeting of the Nordic Society for Phenomenology, Södertörn University, Stockholm (refereed)
Mar. 2015: "Imagining Collectives and Collective Imagination", Multicentered Phenomenology Workshop, KU Leuven (invited)
Nov. 2014: "Disjunctivism and Empathy", Workshop: Perception in Phenomenology, University of Fribourg
Sept. 2014: "Distrusting Collectives", Center for Subjectivity Research, University of Copenhagen
Sept. 2014: "Distrusting Collectives", Collective Intentionality IX Conference, Indiana University, Bloomington (refereed)
Aug. 2014: "Shared Emotions and Empathy", 37th International Wittgenstein Symposium, Kirchberg am Wechsel (invited)
Jun. 2014: "Distrust in Collectives and Collective Distrust", Common Minds: A Workshop with Philip Pettit, University College Dublin (invited)
Jun. 2014: "Collective Emotions and Collective Empathy", Center for Subjectivity Research, University of Copenhagen (invited)
Dec. 2013: "Stein on Shared Experiences and Collective Empathy", Empathy, Community, and the State: Edith Stein’s Social Philosophy, University College Dublin
Nov. 2013: "Stein on Shared Experiences and Collective Empathy", The Phenomenology of We, Center for Subjectivity Research, University of Copenhagen (invited)
Oct. 2013: "Essential Normativism about Collective Beliefs", 3rd Conference of the European Network on Social Ontology (ENSO III), University of Helsinki (refereed)
Oct. 2013: Comment on Dan Zahavi: Self and Other: Exploring Subjectivity, Empathy and Shame, Werkstatt Phänomenologie, University of Vienna
Aug. 2013: "Social and Corporate Akrasia", Collective Responsibility and Group Agency, University College Cork (invited)
Aug. 2013: "Shared Extended Minds: Towards a Socio-Integrationist Account", Mind, Language and Action. 36th International Wittgenstein Symposium, Kirchberg am Wechsel (refereed)
Aug. 2013: "Groups as Higher-Order Entities: A Phenomenological Account." Roundtable: "Current Issues in Phenomenological Ontology", XXIII. World Congress of Philosophy,Athens (refereed)
Jun. 2013: "Stein on Sharing Minds", Lotze to Husserl: Psychology, Mathematics, Philosophy in Göttingen, KU Leuven (invited)
May 2013: "Anti-Individualism and Self-Knowledge: Gareth Evans' Compatibilism." Post-Doc Research Workshop, University College Dublin (invited)
Aug. 2018 Interview/Research Report “Empathy and Group Attitude” (SHARE: Results in Brief) on CORDIS: Community, Research and Development Information Service; https://cordis.europa.eu/result/rcn/238965_en.html
Jun. 2018 Blog “Beyond Solitary Reveries: On the Possibility of Collective Imagination”, The Junkyard – A Scholarly Blog Devoted to the Study of Imagination;https://junkyardofthemind.com/blog/2018/6/17/beyond-solitary-reveries-on-the-possibility-of-collective-imagination
Apr. 2017 Research Lab: “Designing for Inclusive Identities”, Cnergi: Center for the Emergence of Inclusive Identities in collaboration with Center for Subjectivity Research, University of Copenhagen
May 2016 Presentation: Writing the Marie Curie Proposal & Supervisor/Fellow Relationship, Workshop for Marie Curie Applicants for the Faculty of Humanities, University of Copenhagen
Apr. 2015 "Not only paying lip service to interdisciplinarity", Interview with HUMANIST,The Magazine of Faculty of Humanities, University of Copenhagen, 2015, Nr. 14. (Online: http://www.e-pages.dk/ku/1108/40)
Oct. 18, 2011 Co-organizer and moderator of panel discussion: "Is Hungary still a Democracy?" (with the Hungary-correspondent of Süddeutsche Zeitung and others), Depot, Vienna
Feb. 16, 2011 Interview partner for the radio series "Philosophische Brocken", Radio Orange, FM 94.0, Vienna: “Umstrittene Philosophen in Ungarn” (Podcast: http://audiothek.philo.at/)
Oct. 26, 2011 Interview partner for the radio series "Philosophische Brocken", Radio Orange, FM 94.0, Vienna: "Das iPhone und mein Gehirn zusammen" (Podcast: http://audiothek.philo.at/)
2018 - Editorial Advisory Board Member, Journal of Philosophy of Emotions
2017 - 2018 Steering Committee Member of theTemporary Research Employees (TER) Forum, Faculty of Humanities, University of Copenhagen, and the
Danish Labor Union for University Graduates (Dansk Magisterforening),
2015 - Junior Researchers’ Advisory Board Member of Centro di Ricerca in Fenomenologia e Scienza della Persona (PERSONA), Università Vita-Salute San Raffaele, Milan
2013 - Advisory Board Member of e-Journal Philosophie der Psychologie
2013 Convener of the Cognitive Science Reading Group, School of Philosophy, University College Dublin
2012 - 2013 Member (Substitute) of the Faculty Council, Faculty for Philosophy and Education, University of Vienna
2010 - 2013 Member of the Board of Studies, Department of Philosophy, University of Vienna
Journals: Acta Analytica; British Journal for the History of Philosophy; Continental Philosophy Review; Diametros; Erkenntnis; Études phénoménologiques; Ethical Theory and Moral Practice; Grazer Philosophische Studien; Frontiers in Psychology; Husserl Studies; Inquiry; International Journal of Philosophical Studies; Journal of Philosophy of Emotion; Journal of Social Ontology (2x); Journal of Social Philosophy; Mind and Language; Phänomenologische Forschungen; Phenomenology and Mind; Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences (4x); Philosophia (2x); Philosophical Psychology; Review for Philosophy and Psychology; Studia Phaenomenologica; Synthese; The Monist; The New Yearbook of Philosophy and Phenomenological Research
Publishers: Duquesne University Press; Oxford University Press; Routledge (2x)
Research Agencies: Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW); Austrian Agency for International Cooperation in Education and Research (OeAD);a.r.t.e.s. EUmanities, Graduate School for the Humanities Cologne; Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF); Study Abroad in Scandinavia (DIS); Polish National Science Centre (OSF); Research Foundation Flanders (FWO)
Conference: UCD School of Philosophy Graduate Conference 2014
PhD-Thesis (ongoing): Olli-Pekka Paananen, University of Jyväskylä, Department of Social Sciences and Philosophy: “The Ego and its Home: A Husserlian Phenomenology of Being-at-Home”; Co-supervisor with Prof. Sara Heinämaa and Dr. Joona Taipale
Society for Philosophy of Emotions (SPE);
Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy (SPEP) (2016-2017)
International Society of Research on Emotion (ISRE) (2015-2017)
International Society of Social Ontology (ISOS)
European Network for the Philosophy of Social Sciences (ENPOSS)
European Network on Social Ontology (ENSO)
Austrian Society for Philosophy (ÖGP)
Austrian Society for Phenomenology (ÖGPh)
Nordic Society for Phenomenology (NoSP)
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