Empathy and Agency
Subtitle: The Problem of Understanding in the Human Sciences
Contributors: Hans Herbert Kogler (Editor); Karsten R. Stueber (Editor)
Publisher: Westview Press
Published: August 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 318
ISBN-13: 9780813391205
Subjects: Cognition & cognitive psychology; Topics in philosophy; Psychology; Philosophy Of Psychology; Philosophy; Science and psychology; Movements - Humanism; Methodology; Empathy
First sentence: Although simulation theory (ST) was developed as a solution to problems in the philosophy of mind, it bears obvious affinities to theories that particularly concern the aims and methodology of the social sciences, most notably those centered on the concepts of Verstehen, or "empathetic understanding," and historical reenactment.