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Record Nr.

UNINA9910814599103321

Autore

Stueber Karsten R

Titolo

Rediscovering empathy : agency, folk psychology, and the human sciences / / Karsten R. Stueber

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, c2006

ISBN

0-262-26478-1

1-282-09770-9

9786612097706

0-262-28453-7

1-4294-1616-5

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (289 p.)

Disciplina

152.4/1

Soggetti

Psychology - Philosophy

Science and psychology

Empathy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"A Bradford book."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [251]-270) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1 Folk Psychology and Rational Agency -- 2 Charity and Rational Contextualism -- 3 The Theory of Mind Debate -- 4 Basic Empathy and Reenactive Empathy -- 5 Folk Psychology and Normative Epistemology -- 6 The Limits of Empathy -- Concluding Remarks -- Notes -- References -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

Empathy as epistemically central for our folk psychological understanding of other minds; a rehabilitation of the empathy thesis in light of contemporary philosophy of mind.