Empathy philosophical and psychological perspectives / edited by Amy Coplan and Peter Goldie.

Other author Coplan, Amy.
Other author Goldie, Peter.
Other author Oxford University Press.
Format Electronic
Publication InfoOxford ; New York : Oxford University Press,
Descriptionxlvii, 382 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Supplemental ContentFull text available from Oxford Scholarship Online
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Contents Introduction / Amy Coplan and Peter Goldie -- Understanding Empathy : Its Features and Effects / Amy Coplan -- Empathy as a Route to Knowledge / Derek Matravers -- Two Routes to Empathy : Insights from Cognitive Neuroscience / Alvin I. Goldman -- Within Each Other : Neural Mechanisms for Empaty in the Primate Brain / Marco Iacoboni -- Empathy, Imitation, and the Social Brain / Jean Decety and Andrew N. Meltzoff -- Empathy for Objects / Gregory Currie -- Empathy, Expansionism, and the Extended Mind / Murray Smith -- An Empathic Eye / Dominic McIver Lopes -- Infectious Music : Music-Listener Emotional Contagion / Stephen Davies -- Empathizing as Simulating / Susan L. Feagin -- On Some Affective Relations between Audiences and the Characters in Popular Fictions / Noël Carroll -- Empathy : Interpersonal vs Artistic? / Graham McFee -- Is Empathy Necessary for Morality? / Jesse J. Prinz -- Empathy, Justice, and the Law / Martin L. Hoffman -- Empathy and Trauma Culture : Imaging Catastrophe / E. Ann Kaplan -- Is Empathy a Virtue? / Heather D. Battaly -- Anti-Empathy / Peter Goldie -- Empathy for the Devil / Adam Morton.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 331-372) and index.
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Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2011534619
ISBN9780199539956 (hardcover : acid-free paper)
ISBN0199539952

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