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

Herbert Kogler, Hans

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0813391199 ISBN 13: 9780813391199

Publisher: Perseus, 1999

Synopsis

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 Kögler and Karsten R. Stueber's Empathy and Agency addresses this other issues vital to current social science in an advanced and diverse analysis of the foundations of social-scientific methodology based on recent cognitive psychology. The book serves as both an introduction to the debate for non-academic audiences and as a catalyst for further discussion for serious theorists. Empathy and Agency provides a solid foundation of the fundamental issues in social and cognitive science, but also presents the most influential paradigms in the field at this time.

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Hans Herbert Kogler

Edition details

• Publisher: Perseus
• Publication date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0813391199
• ISBN 13: 9780813391199
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 332