Tanner Hammond, PhD,LCSW 

Research

My published research focuses on issues at the intersection of moral psychology, emotion and embodiment, and the history of phenomenology and existential psychology. I have also presented my research at various international venues, including the American Philosophical Association, the German Society for Phenomenological Research, the Max Scheler Society of North America, and the North American Society for Early Phenomenology. 

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I'm especially interested in the role of emotion and embodied experience in personal agency and interpersonal relating, including issues of self-awareness, emotional intentionality, and intersubjective mental states like empathy, compassion, and love. In approaching these issues, my work rehabilitates historically-overlooked contributions to moral psychology from figures in the history of phenomenological and existential thought. Recent projects include a newly published chapter on Max Scheler's critical engagement with drive psychology, and a work-in-progress charting Scheler's influence on Merleau-Ponty's account of the lived body and its anticipation of recent work in embodied cognition and relational psychotherapy.