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Acknowledgments

The editors wish to thank the Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences (IRCHSS) who sponsored the workshop on ‘Intersubjectivity and Empathy’ held at the Royal Irish Academy in Dublin on May 5–6 2010. The workshop was part of the IRCHSS-funded research project ‘The Phenomenology of Consciousness and Subjectivity’ (PI: Dermot Moran; Assistant Investigator: Rasmus Thybo Jensen), and included earlier versions of the papers by Joel Krueger, Rowland Stout and James O'Shea. Rasmus Thybo Jensen also acknowledges the support of The Danish Council for Independent Research, Humanities.

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Jensen, R.T., Moran, D. Introduction: intersubjectivity and empathy. Phenom Cogn Sci 11, 125–133 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11097-012-9258-y

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