Empathy and emotions : on the notion of empathy as emotional sharing

The topic of this study is a notion of empathy that is common in philosophy and in the behavioral sciences. It is here referred to as ‘the notion of empathy as emotional sharing’, and it is characterized in terms of three ideas. If a person, S, has empathy with respect to an emotion of another perso...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Nilsson, Peter
Format: Doctoral Thesis
Language:English
Published: Umeå universitet, Filosofi och lingvistik 2003
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Online Access:http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-75
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