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66Theories explain, and so do historical narratives: But there are differencesJournal of the Philosophy of History 2 (2): 237-243. 2008.Anti-realists like Paul Roth conceive of historical narratives as having no genuine explanatory power, because historical events are not ready-made and reveal themselves only to the retrospective gaze of the historian. For that reason, the categories with the help of which historians identify historical events do not map onto categories of general theories of the world required for a genuine explanation of them. While I agree with Paul Roth that the significance of a historical event is revealed…Read more
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123Intentionalism, Intentional Realism, and EmpathyJournal of the Philosophy of History 3 (3): 290-307. 2009.Contemporary philosophers of history and interpretation theorists very often deny the thesis of intentional realism, because they reject intentionalism or the thesis that an agent's or author's intentions are relevant for the interpretive practice of the human sciences. I will defend intentional realism by showing why it is wrong to whole-heartedly reject intentionalism and by clarifying the logical relation between intentionalism and intentional realism. I will do so by discussing the two centr…Read more
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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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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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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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157In 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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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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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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