Empathy and psychopathology

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    Abstract

    What can we learn about empathy and in particular about its role in morality by studying conditions in which it is significantly impaired? Over the past decade or so philosophers have focused extensively on psychopathy and to a lesser extent on autism in trying to tease out these questions and shed light on the longstanding meta-ethical debates between rationalists and sentimentalists about the basis of moral motivation and judgement. In tandem with this, some positive accounts of morality in both philosophy and psychology have given empathy a central role (e.g. Hoffman 2000, Slote 2010).
    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationRoutledge handbook of philosophy of empathy
    EditorsHeidi L. Maibom
    Place of PublicationNew York
    PublisherRoutledge, Taylor and Francis Group
    Pages364-376
    Number of pages13
    ISBN (Electronic)9781315282015
    ISBN (Print)9781138855441
    Publication statusPublished - 2017

    Publication series

    NameRoutledge Handbooks in Philosophy
    PublisherRoutledge

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