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Empathy, simulation, and PAM

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 January 2003

Robert M. Gordon
Affiliation:
Department of Philosophy, University of Missouri, St. Louis, MO 63121 gordon@umsl.edu http://www.umsl.edu/~philo/gordon1.html

Abstract

The wealth of important and convergent evidence discussed in the target article contrasts with the poorly conceived theory put forward to explain it. The simulation theory does a better job of explaining how automatic “mirroring” mechanisms might work together with high-level cognitive processes. It also explains what the authors' PAM theory merely stipulates.

Type
Brief Report
Copyright
© 2002 Cambridge University Press

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