how do we understand others empathy and theory theory of mind as two different but cooperative mechanisms for sensibility

• DOI: 10.13128/phe_mi-19593
• Publication Date: 2013-01-01
• Authors: Sarah Songhorian
• Keywords: Ethics; 03 medical and health sciences; 0302 clinical medicine; Aesthetics; Theory-Theory of Mind; BH1-301; Max Scheler; BJ1-1725; basic empathy

The aim of this paper is to understand whether Theory-Theory of Mind (TToM) can be considered the one and only source of our understanding of others or not. I support the idea that TToM cannot have such a role and that it can be played only by basic empathy - a sui generis perception. In this paper, I challenge TToM as basic, I then consider the notion of “empathy” and I provide a very narrow definition of low-level empathy, that I compare to Scheler’s account on affective phenomena.<br/>Phenomenology and Mind, No 4 (2013): Sense and Sensibility. Empirical and Philosophical Investigations on the Five Senses<br/>