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Disability & Society

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The double empathy problem and the problem of empathy: neurodiversifying phenomenology

Disability & Society June 7, 2023 David Ekdahl 94 citations

The notion that autistic individuals suffer from empathy deficiencies continues to be a widespread assumption, including in many areas of philosophy and cognitive science.In response to this, Damian Milton has proposed an interactional approach to empathy, namely the theory of the double empathy problem.According to this theory, empathy is fundamentally dependent on mutual reciprocity or...