Overview

Empathy has for a long time, at least since the eighteenth century, been seen as centrally important in relation to our capacity to gain a grasp of the content of other people's minds, and predict and explain what they will think, feel, and do; and in relation to our capacity to respond to others ethically. In addition, empathy is seen as having a central role in aesthetics, in the understanding of our engagement with works of art and with fictional characters. A fuller understanding of empathy is now offered by the interaction of research in science and the humanities. Empathy: Philosophical and Psychological Perspectives draws together nineteen original chapters by leading researchers across several disciplines, together with an extensive Introduction by the editors. The individual chapters reveal how important it is, in a wide range of fields of enquiry, to bring to bear an understanding of the role of empathy in its various guises. This volume offers the ideal starting-point for the exploration of this intriguing aspect of human life.

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Author:   Amy Coplan (California State University, Fullerton) ,  Peter Goldie (University of Manchester)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.10cm , Height: 3.10cm , Length: 23.60cm
Weight:   0.792kg
ISBN:  

9780199539956

ISBN 10:   0199539952
Pages:   432
Publication Date:   27 October 2011
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Amy Coplan & Peter Goldie: Introduction Section I. Empathy and Mind 1: Amy Coplan: Understanding Empathy: Its Features and Effects 2: Derek Matravers: Empathy as a Route to Knowledge 3: Alvin I. Goldman: Two Routes to Empathy: Insights from Cognitive Neuroscience 4: Marco Iacoboni: Within Each Other: Neural Mechanisms for Empathy in the Primate Brain 5: Jean Decety & Andrew N. Meltzoff: Empathy, Imitation, and the Social Brain 6: Gregory Currie: Empathy for Objects Section II. Empathy and Aesthetics 7: Murray Smith: Empathy, Expansionism, and the Extended Mind 8: Dominic McIver Lopes: An Empathic Eye 9: Stephen Davies: Infectious Music: Music Listener Emotional Contagion 10: Susan L. Feagin: Empathizing as Simulating 11: Nöel Carroll: On Some Affective Relatons between Audiences and Characters in Popular Fictions 12: Graham McFee: Empathy: Interpersonal vs. Artistic? Section III. Empathy and Morality 13: Jesse J. Prinz: Is Empathy Necessary for Morality? 14: Heather D. Battaly: Is Empathy a Virtue? 15: Martin L. Hoffman: Empathy, Justice, and the Law 16: E. Ann Kaplan: Empathy and Trauma Culture: Imaging Catastrophe 17: Peter Goldie: Anti-empathy 18: Adam Morton: Empathy for the Devil

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a timely anthology CHOICE

a must have read for any researcher on empathynot only for researchers on empathy in philosophy. Eva-Maria Engelen, British Journal of Aesthetics a timely anthology CHOICE

<br> This volume of collected essays provides a good sample of the importance of empathy and its wide impact on several issues, and is a gateway contribution for the future work to be done in philosophy, psychology and elsewhere. --Metapsychology<p><br>

Author Information

Amy Coplan is Associate Professor of Philosophy at California State University, Fullerton. Her primary research interests are in philosophy of emotion, aesthetics (especially philosophy of film), feminist philosophy, and ancient Greek philosophy. She has published articles on the nature and importance of emotion and on various forms of emotional engagement with film, including empathy, sympathy, and emotional contagion. She is currently editing a collection on the film Blade Runner for the Routledge series Philosophers on Film. Peter Goldie was the Samuel Hall Chair in Philosophy at the University of Manchester. His main philosophical interests were the philosophy of mind, ethics, and aesthetics, and particularly questions concerning value and how the mind engages with value. He is the author of The Emotions: A Philosophical Exploration (OUP, 2000), and On Personality (Routledge, 2004), co-author of Who's Afraid of Conceptual Art? (Routledge, 2010), editor of Understanding Emotions: Mind and Morals (Ashgate, 2002), and The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Emotion (OUP, 2010), and co-editor of Philosophy and Conceptual Art (OUP, 2007).

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