Autistic philosopher and neurodiversity proponent Robert Chapman (2021) argues that disability may be best understood by utilizing an ecological functional model where the focus is on the intersection and overlaps between relational contributions to collectives and group functioning with individual functionality. This presents an alternative to both social-relational models of disability...
This paper targets the constitutive basis of social cognition. It begins by describing the traditional and still dominant cognitivist view. Cognitivism assumes internalism about the realisers of social cognition; thus, the embodied and embedded elements of intersubjective engagement are ruled out from playing anything but a basic causal role in an account of social cognition. It then goes on to...
This paper argues that empathy comes in different forms: it isn’t all of a piece. It seeks to cast light on that variety of forms by focusing on the characteristic features of different forms of empathy, which we take to exist along a continuum. Section 1 highlights the special advantages of thinking of empathy as enactive and exploratory, drawing on phenomenologically inspired analyses of...