Abstract
The concept of empathy has played and continues to play a central role in the philosophical and psychological discussions and investigations of two central features characterizing the social nature of human beings: the ability to recognize what other people are thinking and feeling, and the ability to engage with other people in a social manner. Accordingly, empathy refers to a broad range of psychological processes and phenomena having to do with our ability to know another person's state of mind and our ability to be emotionally affected by how others feel and think about their situation, allowing us to feel like them, to feel with them, to care for them, and to be concerned about them. This entry will discuss how the concept of empathy has been defined in a variety of philosophical and psychological contexts. It will also explain the role that empathy plays in gaining knowledge of other minds and explicate how we might think about empathy's contribution to the constitution of human sociality and morality.
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