How Does it Feel? - Interpersonal Understanding and affective Empathy

感觉如何？

• 批准号: 428993407
• 负责人: Professor Dr. Neil Roughley
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Institut für Philosophie
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Research Grants
• 资助国家: 德国
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/428993407?language=en
• 关键词: How; Does; Feel; Interpersonal; Understanding

Interpersonal Understanding and Affective Empathy SummaryAccording to a recent study by YouGov, a majority of Britons areworried that they and their compatriots are increasingly incapable ofunderstanding each other and of emotionally “putting themselves inothers’ shoes.” These inabilities seem intimately tied up with thedisturbing sectar-ianism of political culture afflicting Westerndemocracies. But what precisely is it to understand another personand what is it that blocks the ability to do so? The project "How Doesit Feel? Interpersonal Understanding and Affective Empathy" aims tomake a crucial contribution to a theory of interpersonal understandingby providing philosophical accounts of hitherto barely discusseddimensions of the phenomenon: (1) grasping what it is like or how itfeels for another to be in some situation: phenomenal understanding;(2) endorsing or accepting another’s feelings, motivation or action;and (3) achieving these as a result of emo-tionally or affectivelyempathising with the other, where affective empathy is conceived aseither fulfilling a cognitive role, thus contributing to phenomenalunderstanding, or feeding into the eval-uative or quasi-evaluativephenomenon of endorsement. Three subprojects will tackle each ofthese three dimensions. In order to do so, they will bring together anddevelop a thus far unique combination of insights from epistemology(on the nature of understanding and its relationship to knowledge),from philosophy of mind (on how people identify and grasp subjectiveexperiences), from metaethics (on endorsement or appreciation ofanother’s psychological state) and from philosophical psychology (onthe types and mechanisms of successful and failed empathy). All inall, the project promises to develop key components of a theory ofinterpersonal under-standing, a phenomenon whose resources andvalue appear dangerously underappreciated in our factious politicaltimes.

人际理解和情感共鸣概述根据YouGov最近的一项研究，大多数英国人担心他们和他们的同胞越来越不能相互理解，在情感上“设身处地为他人着想”。这些无能似乎与困扰西方民主国家的令人不安的政治文化宗派主义密切相关。但是，理解另一个人到底是什么？是什么阻碍了理解另一个人的能力？这个名为“你感觉如何？人际理解与情感移情”的项目旨在为人际理解理论做出重要贡献，通过对迄今为止很少被讨论的现象维度的哲学描述：(1)理解他人的感受或感受：现象级的理解；(2)认可或接受他人的感受、动机或行动；(3)通过情感上或情感上的移情来实现这些。在这种情况下，情感移情被认为是履行认知角色，从而有助于现象理解，或为认可的古代或准评估性现象提供支持。三个子项目将分别处理这三个方面。为了做到这一点，他们将把认识论(关于理解的性质及其与知识的关系)、心灵哲学(关于人们如何识别和把握主观经验)、元伦理学(关于认可或欣赏他人的心理状态)和哲学心理学(关于成功和失败的移情的类型和机制)的见解汇集在一起，并开发出迄今为止独特的见解。总而言之，该项目承诺开发人际理解理论的关键组成部分，在我们这个派系政治时代，这一现象的资源和价值似乎被危险地低估了。