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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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.