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On empathy

E. Stein and R. Ingarden vs. cognitive psychology

Tomasz Kąkol

pp. 35-45

In this paper I compare (using as paradigmatic examples E. Stein and R. Ingarden) phenomenological theories of empathy (understood as “mind-reading”) with contemporary cognitivists’ approach to this issue, arguing that although they are prima facie incompatible, in fact they can be seen as complementary. Since empathy is indispensable in practice, a correct conceptualization of this topic is desirable.

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Kąkol, T. (2019). On empathy: E. Stein and R. Ingarden vs. cognitive psychology. Miscellanea Anthropologica et Sociologica 20 (1), pp. 35-45.

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