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13Concurring Emotions, Affective Empathy, and Phenomenal UnderstandingPassion: Journal of the European Philosophical Society for the Study of Emotion 1 (2): 103-107. 2023.According to an optimistic view, affective empathy is a route to knowledge of what it is like to be in the target person’s state (“phenomenal knowledge”). Roughly, the idea is that the empathizer gains this knowledge by means of empathically experiencing the target’s emotional state. The literature on affective empathy, however, often draws a simplified picture according to which the target feels only a single emotion at a time. Co-occurring emotions (“concurrent emotions”) are rarely considered…Read more
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3Simulating experiences: unjust credibility deficits without identity prejudicesPhilosophical Explorations 1-15. forthcoming.This article focuses on unjust credibility deficits in cases of testimony about emotional reactions towards acts of oppression. It argues that the injustice in these cases is not rooted in the hearer’s identity prejudices against the speaker, but the hearer's problematic way of dealing with his simulation of being in the speaker's situation. The simulation is in itself not morally problematic. However, I focus on a case where the hearer either recklessly or negligently fails to consider knowledg…Read more
Christiana Werner
Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
Georg-August Universität Göttingen
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Georg-August-Universität GöttingenRegular Faculty
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Georg-August Universität GöttingenRegular Faculty
Areas of Interest
Metaphysics and Epistemology |
Value Theory |
Philosophical Traditions |