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DEFINING EMPATHY: THOUGHTS ON COPLAN'S APPROACH
Author(s) -
MILLER CHRISTIAN
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
the southern journal of philosophy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.281
H-Index - 21
eISSN - 2041-6962
pISSN - 0038-4283
DOI - 10.1111/j.2041-6962.2011.00057.x
Subject(s) - empathy , psychology , epistemology , cognitive psychology , social psychology , philosophy
abstract In this paper, I raise three sets of issues inspired by Amy Coplan's paper, “Will the Real Empathy Please Stand Up.” They concern whether we need to distinguish between the three phenomena as Coplan suggests, what method(s) should be used in making those distinctions, and whether they are in fact made correctly.