Empathy And Agency: The Problem Of Understanding In The Human Sciences

by Hans Herbert Kogler and Karstan Stueber

Book Overview

A crucial debate currently raging in the fields of cognitive and social science centers around general and specific approaches to understanding the actions of others. When we understand the actions of another person, do we do so on the basis of a general theory of psychology, or on the basis of an effort to place ourselves in the particular position of that specific person? Hans Herbert K gler and Karsten R. Stueber's Empathy and Agency addresses...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813391199
• ISBN13: 9780813391199
• Release Date: November 1999
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 8.7"