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Zusatztext a timely anthology Informationen zum Autor 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). Klappentext This is a much-needed interdisciplinary investigation of empathy. Leading researchers from philosophy and psychology explore the role of empathy 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 appreciation of art and fiction. Zusammenfassung This is a much-needed interdisciplinary investigation of empathy. Leading researchers from philosophy and psychology explore the role of empathy 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 appreciation of art and fiction. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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 and 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 ...
