The first volume in this series (The View from Within, ed. Francisco Varela and Jonathan Shear) was a study of first-person approaches to the study of consciousness. Second-person 'I-You' relations are central to human life yet have been neglected in consciousness research. This book puts that right, and goes further by including descriptions of animal 'person-to-person' interactions from primatologists Barbara Smuts and Sue Savage-Rumbaugh. Other contributions are drawn from fields as diverse as Japanese philosophy and Buddhist studies, neurophysiology, phenomenology and neuropsychology - including clinical studies on autism and face-recognition disorders.

"I highly recommend the collection... should be looked at by anyone who wants to think about what form a phenomenological contribution to some of the problems studied by cognitive scientists might take." -- Bill Wringe * Human Nature Review *
"Interdisciplinary research on empathy is important both for theoretical understanding of intersubjectivity and to meet practical goals such as better physician-patient relationships. Between Ourselves has made solid strides in both of these directions." -- Allison Barnes * Philosophical Psychology *