Current Disciplinary and Interdisciplinary Debates on Empathy

摘要

Almost anybody writing in the field would declare that there is no accepted standard definition of empathy—either among the sciences and humanities or in the specific disciplines. However, even when accepting that there can be no all-time and universally valid definition, one can still try to clarify some aspects and establish a few landmarks that will help to ensure that the phenomenon with which various researchers are dealing is the same, or has at least important features in common.