Dialogical Essays

Lívia Mathias Simão, Ph.D., is Associate and Senior Professor at the Institute of Psychology of the University of São Paulo, Brazil, where she founded and presently co-coordinates the Laboratory of Verbal Interaction and Knowledge Construction. Her main research interests concern issues embracing the ontological construction of human subjectivity in I-Other-World relationships from the perspective of the Semiotic-Cultural Constructivism in Psychology. This approach emphasizes issues regarding the psycho-philosophical notions of alterity, temporality and disquieting experiences. She has internationally published articles, chapters, co-edited books and takes part in editorial boards of international journals of her research area.

Chapter 1: Dialogue with Greek Philosophy on Transformations in I-Other Relations.- Chapter 2: Dialogue with Theorists of Semiotic-Constructivist Psychology on Human Intersubjectivity.- Chapter 3: Dialogue with Ernst Boesch on I-Other Relations seen as the Experience of the Actional I in its Cultural Field.- Chapter 4: Dialogue on I-Other Relations From Gadamerian Hermeneutics Reflections.- Chapter 5: Dialogue on Temporality and Alterity in I-Other Relations Inspired by the Philosophy of Levinas.