The empathic skill fiction can’t teach us

Philosophical Psychology 33 (3):313-331 (2020)
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This paper argues that a crucial skill needed to empathize with others cannot be trained by reading fiction: the skill of reading the evidence for the other person’s state of mind and, thus, empath...

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