Abstract
AbstractThis chapter presents the most common types of objections to perspective taking. Critics object that we are not very good at imagining being in situations that are very different from ones we have been in, we are poor at using our experiences to recreate the experiences of others, we tend to focalize and ignore relevant information when we use the imagination, and we have little ability to recreate visceral experiences. As a result, perspective taking is rarely successful in capturing other people’s experiences, the argument goes. But perspective taking isn’t primarily concerned with predicting the fine details of other people’s psychology, the chapter argues. It is concerned with the overall significance of what others think, feel, and do. Perspective taking captures some of the things we care most about: our relationship to others; their relationship to us or to other people; their attitudes, such as respect, disdain, care, or hostility; what matters to them; and so on.
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Oxford University PressNew York
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