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Book Review: Empathy: Philosophical and Psychological Perspectives , edited by Amy Coplan and Peter Goldie

Book Review: Empathy: Philosophical and Psychological Perspectives , edited by Amy Coplan and... (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011), 432 pp. ISBN 9780199539956 (hbk). Hardback/paperback: $99.00/$39.95. In the last decade, empathy has been the topic of an intense interdisciplinary research effort and the subject matter of a burgeoning number of books, articles, and encyclopedia entries. With their collection of essays, Amy Coplan and the late Peter Goldie have made a significant addition to this literature and collected an interesting mix of eighteen original contributions that will in all likelihood become an obligatory source of consultation for empathy researchers in a variety of disciplines. They will find the various articles more than worthwhile to read when thinking about the nature of empathy-related phenomena and their contribution to our understanding of other minds, to our aesthetic appreciation of the world, and to the foundation of morality; the three areas in which the topic of empathy has been traditionally discussed and which also constitute the three main sections of this anthology. The collection follows the current consensus among researchers—a consensus that is however strongly opposed by recent proponents of the phenomenological tradition not represented in this anthology—that empathy is best understood as a cognitive and emotional resonance phenomena of different degrees and levels of complexity http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of Moral Philosophy Brill

Book Review: Empathy: Philosophical and Psychological Perspectives , edited by Amy Coplan and Peter Goldie

Stueber, Karsten
Journal of Moral Philosophy , Volume 11 (6): 777 – Nov 10, 2014
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© 2014 by Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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1740-4681
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(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011), 432 pp. ISBN 9780199539956 (hbk). Hardback/paperback: $99.00/$39.95. In the last decade, empathy has been the topic of an intense interdisciplinary research effort and the subject matter of a burgeoning number of books, articles, and encyclopedia entries. With their collection of essays, Amy Coplan and the late Peter Goldie have made a significant addition to this literature and collected an interesting mix of eighteen original contributions that will in all likelihood become an obligatory source of consultation for empathy researchers in a variety of disciplines. They will find the various articles more than worthwhile to read when thinking about the nature of empathy-related phenomena and their contribution to our understanding of other minds, to our aesthetic appreciation of the world, and to the foundation of morality; the three areas in which the topic of empathy has been traditionally discussed and which also constitute the three main sections of this anthology. The collection follows the current consensus among researchers—a consensus that is however strongly opposed by recent proponents of the phenomenological tradition not represented in this anthology—that empathy is best understood as a cognitive and emotional resonance phenomena of different degrees and levels of complexity

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Published: Nov 10, 2014

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