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34Understanding other minds and the problem of rationalityIn K. R. Stueber & H. H. Kogaler (eds.), Empathy and Agency: The Problem of Understanding in the Human Sciences, Boulder: Westview Press. 2000.
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161In this timely and wide-ranging study, Karsten Stueber argues that empathy is epistemically central for our folk-psychological understanding of other agents--that it is something we cannot do without in order to gain understanding of other minds. Setting his argument in the context of contemporary philosophy of mind and the interdisciplinary debate about the nature of our mindreading abilities, Stueber counters objections raised by some in the philosophy of social science and argues that it is t…Read more
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29Indeterminacy and the first person perspectiveIn C. Martinez Vidal (ed.), Verdad: Logica, Representacion Y Mundo, Universidade De Santiago De Compostela. 1996.
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18Book Review: Empathy: Philosophical and Psychological Perspectives, edited by Amy Coplan and Peter Goldie (review)Journal of Moral Philosophy 11 (6): 777-781. 2014.
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232Empathy, Rationality, and ExplanationJournal of the Philosophy of History 5 (2): 147-162. 2011.This paper describes the historical background to contemporary discussions of empathy and rationality. It looks at the philosophy of mind and its implications for action explanation and the philosophy of history. In the nineteenth century, the concept of empathy became prominent within philosophical aesthetics, from where it was extended to describe the way we grasp other minds. This idea of empathy as a way of understanding others echoed through later accounts of historical understanding as inv…Read more
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52The Ethical Dimension of Folk Psychology?Inquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 52 (5): 532-547. 2009.Participants in the debate about the nature of folk psychology tend to share one fundamental assumption: that its primary purpose consists in the prediction and explanation of another person's behavior. The following essay will evaluate recent challenges to this assumption by philosophers such as Joshua Knobe who insist that folk psychology and its concepts are intimately linked to our ethical concerns. I will show how conceiving of folk psychology in an engaged manner enables one to account for…Read more
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69Moral approval and the dimensions of empathy: Comments on Michael Slote's moral sentimentalismAnalytic Philosophy 52 (4): 328-336. 2011.
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51Author reply: Empathy Versus Narrative: What Exactly is the Debate About? Response to my CriticsEmotion Review 4 (1): 68-69. 2012.In response to my critics, I highlight areas of agreement and disagreement. I also argue that my view is better suited than narrativism to account for the difficulties that we encounter in trying to understand other agents. Moreover, the points brought up by Gallagher and Hutto do not succeed in showing that our understanding of an agent’s reasons for acting proceeds independently from reenactive empathy.
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3Understanding Truth and Objectivity: A Dialogue between Donald Davidson and Hans-Georg GadamerIn Brice R. Wachterhauser (ed.), Hermeneutics and truth, Northwestern University Press. pp. 172--89. 1994.
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1262. reasons, generalizations, empathy, and narratives: The epistemic structure of action explanationHistory and Theory 47 (1). 2008.It has become something of a consensus among philosophers of history that historians, in contrast to natural scientists, explain in a narrative fashion. Unfortunately, philosophers of history have not said much about how it is that narratives have explanatory power. they do, however, maintain that a narrative’s explanatory power is sui generis and independent of our empathetic or reenactive capacities and of our knowledge of law-like generalizations. In this article I will show that this consens…Read more
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