Michela Summa is a post-doc researcher and lecturer at the Philosophy Department of Julius Maximilians Universität Würzburg. Research interests include: the phenomenology of sensible experience, the phenomenology and the psychopathology of self- and other-experience, the phenomenology of memory and imagination, aesthetic and ontology of fiction.

Thomas Fuchs is Karl Jaspers Professor of Philosophy and Psychiatry at Heidelberg University, Germany. Areas of expertise: phenomenological philosophy, psychology and psychopathology, with a focus on embodiment, temporality, spatiality, and intersubjectivity. Clinical work focus: diagnosis, psychopathological assessment and treatment of adults with severe psychiatric disorders.

Luca Vanzago is aprofessor of Theoretical Philosophy and of Theory of Knowledge at the University of Pavia, Italy. Areas of expertise: phenomenology, philosophy of mind, and ontology, with focus on temporality, bodily subjectivity, the experience of pain, and the "hard problem" of consciousness.

1. Imagination and Social Perspectives. Approaches from Phenomenology and Psychopathology

Michela Summa, Thomas Fuchs, and Luca Vanzago

Section I: Imagination and the As-If: Experiencing Multiple Realities

2. Imagining Oneself

Andrea Altobrando

3. Experiencing Reality and Fiction: Discontinuity and Permeability

Michela Summa

4. As-if I Were You: Imagining the Other in Aesthetic Experience from Kant to Husserl

Serena Feloj

Section II: Imagination and Intersubjectivity in Psychopathology

5. The "As-if" Function and Its Loss in Schizophrenia

Thomas Fuchs

6. Intersubjective Expression in Autism and Schizophrenia

Till Grohmann

7. The Phenomenology of Intersubjective Reality in Schizophrenia

Zeno Van Duppen

Section III: Imagination and the Experience of Others

8. Spinoza on the Role of Feelings, Imagination and Knowledge in Sex, Love, and Social Life

Rudolf Bernet

9. Sartre and the Role of Imagination in Mutual Understanding

Jens Bonnermann

10. Intersubjectivity and Imagination. On Merleau-Ponty's Conception of Intercorporeality as Foundation of Community

Luca Vanzago

11. The Minded Other and the Work of the Imagination

Anita Avramides

12. Empathy without Simulation

Matthew Ratcliffe

Section IV: The Sociality of Imagination

13. Collective Imagination: A Normative Account

Thomas Szanto

14. Shared imagining: Beyond extension, distribution, and commitment

Julia Jansen

15. Beyond the Dichotomy of "Social Direct Perception" and "Simulation Theory". Scheler's Account of Social Cognition Revisited

Emanuele Caminada

Section V. Aesthetic, Ethical, and Socio-Political Grounds of Perspective-Taking

16. We-Perspective on Aesthetic Grounds: Gemeinsinn and Übereinstimmung in Kant and Wittgenstein

Silvana Borutti

17. Social Perspectivity. From the Anonymous Social Order to Individual and Social Awareness

Karl Mertens

18. The Ethico-Political Turn of Phenomenology. Reflections on Otherness in Husserl and Levinas

Matthias Flatscher and Sergej Seitz