Empathy and Agency
Subtitle: The Problem of Understanding in the Human Sciences
Publisher: Westview Press
Published: January 1, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 332
ISBN-13: 9780813391199
Subjects: Cognition & cognitive psychology; Topics in philosophy; Science and psychology; Movements - Humanism; Philosophy; Philosophy / Humanism; Methodology; Empathy; Psychology
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.