Empathy : philosophical and psychological perspectives /

In this interdisciplinary investigation of empathy leading researchers from philosophy and psychology explore the its role in our capacity to understand other people and predict what they think, feel, and do; the part it plays in our ethical responses to others; and its importance to our appreciatio...

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Other Authors: Coplan, Amy, Goldie, Peter
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.
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Table of Contents:
  • pt. I. Empathy and mind
  • 1. Understanding empathy: its features and effects / Amy Coplan
  • 2. Empathy as a route to knowledge / Derek Matravers
  • 3. Two routes to empathy: insights from cognitive neuroscience / Alvin I. Goldman
  • 4. Within each other: neural mechanisms for empathy in the primate brain / Marco Iacoboni
  • 5. Empathy, imitation, and the social brain / Jean Decety and Andrew N. Meltzoff
  • 6. Empathy for objects / Gregory Currie. pt. II. Empathy and aesthetics
  • 7. Empathy, expansionism, and the extended mind / Murray Smith
  • 8. An empathic eye / Dominic Mclver Lopes
  • 9. Infectious music: music-listener emotional contagion / Stephen Davies
  • 10. Empathizing as simulating / Susan L. Feagin
  • 11. On some affective relations between audiences and the characters in popular fictions / Noel Carroll
  • 12. Empathy: interpersonal vs artistic? / Graham McFee
  • pt. III. Empathy and morality
  • 13. Is empathy necessary for morality? / Jesse J. Prinz
  • 14. Empathy, justice, and the law / Martin L. Hoffman
  • 15. Empathy and trauma culture: imaging catastrophe / E. Ann Kaplan
  • 16. Is empathy a virtue? / Heather D. Battaly
  • 17. Anti-empathy / Peter Goldie
  • 18. Empathy for the devil / Adam Morton.