Empathy is proprioceptive: the bodily fundament of empathy – a philosophical contribution to medical education

Abstract Background The current philosophical debate on empathy entails accounts of theory of mind and simulation as well as a phenomenological opposition. The first focuses on a detached observation of others from a 3rd person perspective and formulates the common claim that there is no direct acce...

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Main Authors: Florian Schmidsberger, Henriette Löffler-Stastka
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2018-04-01
Series:BMC Medical Education
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12909-018-1161-y