Dr Basil Vassilicos
Research interests
Phenomenology; philosophy of emotions; philosophy of language; social and political philosophy; environmental ethics.
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My main current project concerns the phenomenology of danger and risk and ethical communicative action for future generations.
Here is some stuff:
The experience of noise. Philosophical and phenomenological perspectives. (edited volume with G. Torre and F. Pellizzer) Palgrave Macmillan (forthcoming). (pre-print of the introduction)
"Expression of affect and illocution." Human Studies 47 (2024). 229-250.
"Qualities of consent: an enactive approach to making better sense." (with M. McGann) Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences (2023). 1-23.
"Wundt and Bühler on gestural expression: From psycho-physical mirroring to the diacrisis." (pre-print) A. Dewalque, C. Gauvry, S. Richard, ed. Philosophy of Language in the Brentano School: Reassessing the Brentanian Legacy. Palgrave Macmillan (2021). 279-297.
"The freedom(s) within collective agency: Tuomela and Sartre." Bulletin d’analyse phénoménologique XVI, 2 (2020). 112-137.
"Piper’s question and ours: a role for adversity in group-centred views of non-agentive shame." Continental Philosophy Review, vol. 52 (2019). 241–264.
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I am a proponent of philosophy education for primary and secondary students in Ireland, and have offered intro courses and philosophy tasters at schools around Limerick. I'd be happy to share my experiences and to expand on these activities.
