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Philosophical Perspectives on Empathy: Theoretical Approaches and Emerging Challenges book cover

1st Edition

Philosophical Perspectives on Empathy Theoretical Approaches and Emerging Challenges

Edited By Derek Matravers, Anik Waldow Copyright 2019
200 Pages
by Routledge

198 Pages
by Routledge

198 Pages
by Routledge
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Empathy—our capacity to cognitively or affectively connect with other people’s thoughts and feelings—is a concept whose definition and meaning varies widely within philosophy and other disciplines. Philosophical Perspectives on Empathy advances research on the nature and function of empathy by exploring and challenging different theoretical approaches to this phenomenon. The first section of... Read more

1. Introduction



Derek Matravers and Anik Waldow





Part I: Empathy as a Method





2. Empathy: Language, Affect and Cognition in the Discovery of the Past



Anik Waldow





3. Emotional Engagement in Scientific Biographies



Nick Jardine





Part II: Empathy and Perceptive Taking





4. Empathy and Meta-Reflective Capacities



Elisa Galgut





5. The Object of an Empathetic Emotion



Derek Matravers





6. What Can We Learn From Taking Another’s Perspective?



Heidi Maibom





7. Sympathy and Projection, and Why We Should Be Wary of Empathy



Louisa Braddock





Part III: Challenges to Empathy





8. Exploring Enactive Empathy: Actively Responding to and Understanding Others



Daniel Hutto and Alan Jurgens





9. Understanding Individual Agency: How Empathy and Narrative Competence Cooperate



Karsten Stueber





10. Empathy without Sharing: Empathetic Responsiveness in Psychanalysis and Politics



Kate Abramson and Adam Leite





11. An Imaginative-Associative Account of Affective Empathy



Talia Morag

Biography

Derek Matravers is Professor of Philosophy at The Open University. His recent work includes Introducing Philosophy of Art: Eight Case Studies (Routledge, 2013); Fiction and Narrative (OUP, 2014); and Empathy (2017). He directs, along with Helen Frowe, the AHRC-funded project, Heritage in War.





Anik Waldow is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Sydney. She has published articles on sympathy, the role of affect in the formation of the self and associationist theories of thought and language. She is the author of Hume and the Problem of Other Minds (2009).

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