Bast

Username: Bast

Participant details

	Network Member	Michaela Baker
	Organisation/Institution	Macquarie University
	Department/Centre	Department of Philosophy
	Lab
	Website	http://www.phil.mq.edu.au/students/postgraduate/people/baker.html
	Research area	Philosophy Subjectivity
	Research keywords	Existential accounts of subjectivity and intersubjectivity

Research Interests

My research focuses on the existential phenomenological account of subjectivity outlined by Jean-Paul Sartre in his early works (The Transcendence of the Ego, Sketch for a Theory of the Emotions and Being and Nothingness). I aim to provide a unified account of this way of accounting for subjectivity and to defend it against what I take to be the most common objection to such an account of subjectivity, namely that it has unpleasant consequences for intersubjectivity. In order to do this, I will examine Sartre’s account of concrete relations with others in Being and Nothingness and explain what causes him to develop such an account. I will then put forward an account of intersubjectivity and ethics that draws on the account of subjectivity, without leading us by necessity to ‘hell is other people’. I also teach symbolic Logic and am interested in Philosophy of Language, particularly in the generation of meaning in language.