Edith Stein wrote her dissertation on the phenomenology of empathy in 1916.

Evidence

24 Augustine: Husserl, Cartesian Meditations, 157. … 25 Debate and ‘dear old leather sofa’: Stein, Self-Portrait in Letters, 10–11 (Stein to Roman Ingarden, 20 Feb. 1917); also see Alasdair MacIntyre, Edith Stein: a philosophical prologue (London & New York: Continuum, 2006), 103–5. Her thesis: Stein, On the Problem of Empathy. Her doctorate was awarded in Freiburg in 1916, and the dissertation published in Halle, 1917. — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café, 1190

Categorization

• XREF: Stein’s empathy dissertation and her conversion connect to the reader’s interest in how phenomenology branches into ethics and religion. — connects to: Edith Stein’s empathy thesis moved phenomenology toward shared intersubjective experience — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café: Freedom,…, 166