Dr. Ellie Anderson, Philosophy professor and cohost of Overthink podcast, explains the debate about empathy within philosophy between simulation theory and theory theory, and argues that the view of empathy within phenomenology (especially that of Stein and Husserl developed in the early 20th century) can help show that this debate is misguided. Anderson also considers whether empathy is moral or not, concluding that it is perceptual in character.

Overthink podcast episode on empathy: https://www.overthinkpodcast.com/epis...

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Works cited:
Marco Iacoboni, Mirroring People
Amy Coplan (ed.), Empathy: Philosophical and Psychological Perspectives
Paul Bloom, Against Empathy,
Edith Stein, On the Problem of Empathy

Editing and graphics by Jeff Murray