Empathy as a Tool for Learning about Evaluative Features of Objects

Q2 Arts and Humanities

Logos and Episteme Pub Date : 2020-01-01 DOI:10.5840/logos-episteme202011326

Diana Sofronieva

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Abstract

It is generally agreed that empathy can give us knowledge about others. However, the potential use of empathy as a tool to learn about features of objects in the world more generally, as opposed to learning only about others’ internal states, has not been discussed in the literature. In this paper I make the claim that empathy can help us learn about evaluative features of objects in the world. I further defend this claim by comparing empathy to testimony. Then I present and respond to two possible objections to this analogy.

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同理心作为学习物体评价特征的工具

人们普遍认为，同理心可以让我们了解他人。然而，与仅仅了解他人的内部状态相反，移情作为一种工具来更广泛地了解世界上物体的特征的潜在用途，尚未在文献中得到讨论。在这篇论文中，我提出了同理心可以帮助我们了解世界上物体的评价特征。我通过将同理心与证词进行比较来进一步捍卫这一观点。然后，我提出并回应了对这一类比的两种可能的反对意见。

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Logos and Episteme Arts and Humanities-Philosophy

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0.40

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20 weeks

期刊介绍： the journal publishes articles, reviews or discussion notes focused as well on problems concerning the general theory of knowledge, as on problems specific to the philosophy, methodology and ethics of science, philosophical logic, metaphilosophy, moral epistemology, epistemology of art, epistemology of religion, social or political epistemology, epistemology of communication. Studies in the history of science and of the philosophy of knowledge, or studies in the sociology of knowledge, cognitive psychology, and cognitive science are also welcome.