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Empathy and the Value of Humane UnderstandingPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research 104 (1): 50-65. 2022.Empathy is a form of emotionally charged imaginative perspective‐taking. It is also the unique source of a particular form of understanding, which I will call humane understanding. Humane understanding consists in the direct apprehension of the intelligibility of others’ emotions. This apprehension is an epistemic good whose ethical significance is multifarious. In this paper, I focus on elaborating the sense in which humane understanding of others is non‐instrumentally valuable to its recipient…Read more
APA Western Division
Berkeley, California, United States of America
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Moral Psychology |
Virtue Ethics |
Social Epistemology |
Imagination |
17th/18th Century British Philosophy |
Epistemic Normativity |
Epistemology of Mind |
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