?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rft.title=Empathy+and+Analogy&rft.creator=Barnes%2C+Allison&rft.creator=Thagard%2C+Paul&rft.subject=Cognitive+Psychology&rft.subject=Epistemology&rft.description=We+contend+that+empathy+is+best+viewed+as+a+kind+of+analogical+thinking+of+the+sort+described+in+the+multiconstraint+theory+of+analogy+proposed+by+Keith+Holyoak+and+Paul+Thagard+(1995).+Our+account+of+empathy+reveals+the+Theory-theory%2FSimulation+theory+debate+to+be+based+on+a+false+assumption+and+formulated+in+terms+too+simple+to+capture+the+nature+of+mental+state+ascription.+Empathy+is+always+simulation%2C+but+may+simultaneously+include+theory-application.+By+properly+specifying+the+analogical+processes+of+empathy+and+their+constraints%2C+we+are+able+to+show+how+the+amount+of+theory+needed+to+empathize+is+determined.&rft.date=1997&rft.type=Preprint&rft.type=PeerReviewed&rft.format=text%2Fhtml&rft.identifier=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F620%2F1%2FEmpathy.html&rft.identifier=++Barnes%2C+Allison+and+Thagard%2C+Paul++(1997)+Empathy+and+Analogy.++%5BPreprint%5D+++++&rft.relation=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F620%2F