Who needs empathy? A response to Goldie's arguments against empathy and suggestions for an account of mutual perspective-shifting in contexts of help and careFootnote1

1.  A first version of this paper was presented at the Dutch Society for Analytical Philosophy (VAF) conference, Free University Amsterdam, 31 March 2006.

References

• Gilligan , TG . 2003 . Constructing a moral life: literature and the growth of moral knowledge , Upublished dissertation, Johns Hopkins University .
   Google Scholar
• Gilligan , TG . 2004 . “ Fiction, imagination, and the growth of moral knowledge, paper presented at the ” . In Knowledge and Imagination Conference , Amsterdam . 25 June
   Google Scholar
• Goldie , P . 2005 . “ Dramatic irony and the external perspective, paper presented at the ” . In Royal Institute of Philosophy Annual Conference Narrative and Understanding Persons , University of Hertfordshire . 12–14 July
   Google Scholar
• Goldie , P . 2006a . “ Anti-empathy: against empathy as perspective-shifting, paper presented at ” . In Empathy workshop, Delft University of Technology 17 January
   Google Scholar
• Goldie , P . 2006b . Anti-empathy, paper presented at Empathy Conference , CA : California State University . 22–23 June
   Google Scholar
• Goldie , P . 2006c . Wollheim on emotion and imagination . Philosophical Studies , 127 ( 1 ) : 1 – 17 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Habermas , J . 1990 . Moral consciousness and communicative action (C. Lenhardt and S. W. Nicholsen, Trans.) , Cambridge : Polity Press .
   Google Scholar
• Habermas , J . 1993 . Justification and application: remarks on discourse ethics (C. Cronin, Trans.) , Cambridge : Polity Press .
   Google Scholar
• Habermas , J . 1996 . Between facts and norms: contributions to a discourse theory of laws and Democracy , Cambridge , MA : MIT Press .
   Google Scholar
• Hoffman , M . 2000 . Empathy and moral development , Cambridge : Cambridge University Press .
   Google Scholar
• Kant , I . 1991 . Groundword of the metaphysic of morals (H. J. Paton, Trans., Original work published 1785) , New York : Routledge .
   Google Scholar
• Mead , GH . 1962 . Mind, self, and society , Chicago , IL : University of Chicago Press . (original work published 1934)
   Google Scholar
• Nussbaum , MC . 1995 . Poetic justice: the literary imagination and public life , Boston , MA : Beacon Press .
   Google Scholar
• Nussbaum , MC . 1997 . Cultivating humanity: a classical defence of reform in liberal rducation , Cambridge , MA : Harvard University Press .
   Google Scholar
• Nussbaum , MC . 2001 . Upheavals of thought: the intelligence of emotions , New York : Cambridge University Press .
   Google Scholar
• Nussbaum , MC . 2006 . Frontiers of justice: disability, nationality, species membership , Cambridge , MA : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press .
   Google Scholar
• Rawls , J . 1971 . A theory of justice , Oxford : Oxford University Press .
   Google Scholar
• Ruddick , S . 1989 . Maternal thinking: toward a politics of peace , Boston , MA : Beacon Press .
   Google Scholar
• Wollheim , R . 1984 . The thread of life , Cambridge , MA : Harvard University Press .
   Google Scholar
• Wollheim , R . 1999 . On the emotions , New Haven , CT : Yale University Press .
   Google Scholar