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Philosophical Perspectives on Empathy - Theoretical Approaches and Emerging Challenges (Paperback)
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Philosophical Perspectives on Empathy - Theoretical Approaches and Emerging Challenges (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Studies in Ethics and Moral Theory
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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 the book explores empathy as a historiographical method,
presenting a number of rich and interesting arguments that have
influenced the debate from the Nineteenth Century to the present
day. The next group of essays broadly accepts the centrality of
perspective-taking in empathy. Here the authors attempt to refine
and improve this particular conception of empathy by clarifying the
intentionality of the perspective taker's emotion, the perspective
taker's meta-cognitive capacities, and the nature of central
imagining itself. Finally, the concluding section argues for the
re-evaluation, or even rejection, of empathy. These essays advance
alternative theories that are relevant to current debates, such as
narrative engagement and competence, attunement or the sharing of
mental states, and the "second-person" model of empathy. This book
features a wide range of perspectives on empathy written by experts
across several different areas of philosophy. It will be of
interest to researchers and upper-level students working on the
philosophy of emotions across ethics, philosophy of mind,
philosophy of psychology, and the history of philosophy.
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