Empathy Lessons

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• One more thought on “experimental philosophy”…

  By Lou Agosta on November 25, 2009

  Experimental philosophy really started to get traction in John Locke’s engaging answer to William Molyneux’s thought experiment about the individual blind from birth who suddenly gets his vision. What happens? In a daring experiment, which gives the subtitle to the… Read More ›

• The Philosophical Significance of Neurology for Empathy – The Light Goes on!!!

  By Lou Agosta on November 25, 2009

  Join me in a conversation about empathy and neurology.  The short version is that the individual experiences empathy and the light goes on! Today’s inquiry explores the philosophical significance for empathy of the research on the mirror neurons, the related… Read More ›

• The Development of Sympathy in Hume’s Thinking: From a ‘Delicacy of Sympathy’ [i.e., Empathy] to a Taste

  By Lou Agosta on November 16, 2009

  Draft article: DraftHumeSympathy20091116Agosta  There is a long history in British empiricist philosophy that engages “sympathy.” There are at least four meanings of “sympathy” in the writings of David Hume, dating to his a Treatise on Human Nature (1739). In today’s… Read More ›

• Heidegger’s Special Hermeneutic of Empathy, the Essay

  By Lou Agosta on November 15, 2009

  The article at the end of this post is a rough draft – very rough – of material eventually worked into my book of the same title, Empathy in the Context of Philosophy (Palgrave 2010). It is useful in that… Read More ›

• The Disappearance and Rehabilitation of Introspection

  By Lou Agosta on November 14, 2009

  Introspection extends from an attempt to isolate and report on an individual sensation such as the color or smell of a rose; to the account of a formal meditation or instructions on how to perform one, undertaken and published by… Read More ›

• The Validation of Empathy in Psychoanalysis

  By Lou Agosta on November 13, 2009

  The argument of this blog post is that empathy can adequately be validated by formulating one’s empathic receptivity in an interpretation, which, in turn, is subject to confirming or refuting experiences, responses, reactions, replies. The unpacking of the term “empathy” into… Read More ›

• Empathy and Other Minds: Autism and Solipsism

  By Lou Agosta on November 12, 2009 • ( 2 )

  The classical philosophical problem of other minds has been replaced with the cognitive tasks of mindreading, simulating worlds and minds, and, more particularly, accounting for false belief. More about these latter in the post on Empathy and Analogy devoted to… Read More ›

• Communicability of Affect: A Kantian Approach to Other Minds: Short Version

  By Lou Agosta on November 11, 2009

  Regarding skeptical doubts about the external world, Kant turns from the approach of dialectical illusion in the Dialectic to the Refutation of Idealism in the Analytic, missing an antinomy of Other Minds, which is considered here. Taking a clue from… Read More ›

• Rewriting the History of Empathy

  By Lou Agosta on November 9, 2009

  This post on the philosophical history of empathy proceeds from the following position. While we live in an understanding of what is empathy, and appreciate that empathy is central to our relations with other human beings, we really do not… Read More ›

• The Healing Properties of Empathy in the Context of the Self

  By Lou Agosta on November 8, 2009

  In this blog post (and the related article (draft)), the argument is that empathy is the matrix out of which the self emerges. In this conversation, empathy is positioned as an on-going process of distinguishing, sustaining, and strengthening the structure… Read More ›

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