Empathy : philosophical and psychological perspectives / edited by Amy Coplan and Peter Goldie.

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.

xlvii, 382 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

pt. I. Empathy and mind -- 1. Understanding empathy: its features and effects / Amy Coplan -- 2. Empathy as a route to knowledge / Derek Matravers -- 3. Two routes to empathy: insights from cognitive neuroscience / Alvin I. Goldman -- 4. Within each other: neural mechanisms for empathy in the primate brain / Marco Iacoboni -- 5. Empathy, imitation, and the social brain / Jean Decety and Andrew N. Meltzoff -- 6. Empathy for objects / Gregory Currie. pt. II. Empathy and aesthetics -- 7. Empathy, expansionism, and the extended mind / Murray Smith -- 8. An empathic eye / Dominic Mclver Lopes -- 9. Infectious music: music-listener emotional contagion / Stephen Davies -- 10. Empathizing as simulating / Susan L. Feagin -- 11. On some affective relations between audiences and the characters in popular fictions / Noel Carroll -- 12. Empathy: interpersonal vs artistic? / Graham McFee -- pt. III. Empathy and morality -- 13. Is empathy necessary for morality? / Jesse J. Prinz -- 14. Empathy, justice, and the law / Martin L. Hoffman -- 15. Empathy and trauma culture: imaging catastrophe / E. Ann Kaplan -- 16. Is empathy a virtue? / Heather D. Battaly -- 17. Anti-empathy / Peter Goldie -- 18. Empathy for the devil / Adam Morton.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 331-372) and index.