Merleau-Ponty on shared emotions and the joint ownership thesis

• Published in: Continental philosophy review Vol. 46; no. 4; pp. 509 - 531
• Main Author: Krueger, Joel
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht Springer Netherlands 01.12.2013; Springer; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Cognitive psychology; Developmental psychology; Education; Emotions; Epistemology. Philosophy of science. Theory of knowledge; Merleau-Ponty, Maurice (1908-61); Phenomenology; Philosophy; Philosophy of Man; Political Philosophy; Social psychology; Intersubjectivity; Merleau-Ponty; Emotions; Developmental psychology; Social cognition; Knowledge theory

In “The Child’s Relations with Others,” Merleau-Ponty argues that certain early experiences are jointly owned in that they are numerically single experiences that are nevertheless given to more than one subject (e.g., the infant and caregiver). Call this the “joint ownership thesis” (JT). Drawing up...