On empathy

E. Stein and R. Ingarden vs. cognitive psychology

Tomasz Kąkol

pp. 35-45

in: Witold Płotka (ed), Phenomenology, practice, and action, Miscellanea Anthropologica et Sociologica 20 (1), 2019.

Abstract

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.

Cited authors

Ingarden Roman Witold

Stein Edith