The Center’s research activities develop along three main lines: reconstructive investigation, critical-theoretical analysis, and the promotion of original research across various application fields.
The debate in the second half of the 19th century and the early 20th century on the logical question and on the relationship between ideal validity and psychic actuality
The late 19th-century discussion on the status of psychology (empirical-descriptive psychology and experimental psychology)
The initial reception of Husserlian phenomenology by the so-called Munich and Göttingen circles and, later, in Freiburg im Breisgau
The development of Husserl’s thought in light of his published works and unpublished manuscripts
The formation of the phenomenological constellation and the many figures who shaped its complex configuration (Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, Sartre, Levinas, Ricoeur, Gadamer, Derrida, Henry, etc.)
The intentionality of consciousness (subjective and collective, cognitive and emotional, etc.)
Subjectivity
Alterity
Embodiment
The transcendental
The lifeworld
Ontological and metaphysical questions in phenomenology (the problem of categories; the debate on realism and idealism, and on naturalization vs. non-naturalization; the metaphysical status of abstract entities such as numbers and values, and of secondary qualities such as colors, etc.)
Epistemological questions from a phenomenological perspective (sensuous intuition, categorial intuition, belief, knowledge, justification)
Issues in phenomenology of religion (specificity of religious experience, transcendence, the sacred, the divine)
The relationship between history of philosophy and phenomenology (intersections, continuities and distortions, phenomenology and Platonism, phenomenology and Aristotelianism, phenomenology and Cartesianism, etc.)
Issues in the phenomenology of education and formation
Psychology, psychoanalysis, psychiatry
Anthropology and ethnology
Phenomenology of religious experience
Pedagogy and educational sciences
Social philosophy and sociology
Political philosophy
Aesthetics and the arts
Biology, medicine, neuroscience, ecology
Philosophy of mind and cognitive sciences