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23Judging from the contemporary debate in the philosophy of history, philosophers seem to think of history as an important but also as a very peculiar discipline. They cannot make up their minds on how exactly to describe the epistemic status of historical knowledge or how exactly to situate history among human activities ranging from the arts to the natural sciences.1 The difficulty of philosophically accounting for the character of history goes back to the very beginning of history as a professi…Read more
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20The Causal Autonomy of Reason Explanations and How Not to Worry about Causal DeviancePhilosophy of the Social Sciences 43 (1): 24-45. 2013.This essay will defend a causal conception of action explanations in terms of an agent’s reasons by delineating a metaphysical and epistemic framework that allows us to view folk psychology as providing us with causal and autonomous explanatory strategies of accounting for individual agency. At the same time, I will calm philosophical concerns about the issue of causal deviance that have been at the center of the recent debates between causalist and noncausalist interpretations of action explana…Read more
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17Book 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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8Empathy, Mental Dispositions, and the Physicalist ChallengeIn Debating Dispositions: Issues in Metaphysics, Epistemology and Philosophy of Mind, Walter De Gruyter. pp. 257-277. 2009.
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7«Beth Savickey, Wittgenstein's Art of Investigation, Routledge, 1999, 266, price» 50 hbPhilosophical Investigations 23 (4). 2000.
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3Empathy, Mental Dispositions, and the Physicalist ChallengeIn Gregor Damschen, Robert Schnepf & Karsten Stueber (eds.), Debating Dispositions. Issues in Metaphysics, Epistemology and Philosophy of Mind, De Gruyter. pp. 257-277. 2009.
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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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2Introduction: Empathy, simulation, and interpretation in the philosophy of the social sciencesIn 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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Measuring empathyStanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Stanford (Ca): Center for the Study of Language and Information. Available From: Http://Plato. Stanford. Edu/Archives/Fall2008/Entries/Empathy/Measuring. Html. forthcoming.
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