TY - GEN ID - cogprints620 UR - http://cogprints.org/620/ A1 - Barnes, Allison A1 - Thagard, Paul TI - Empathy and Analogy Y1 - 1997/// N2 - 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/Simulation 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, but may simultaneously include theory-application. By properly specifying the analogical processes of empathy and their constraints, we are able to show how the amount of theory needed to empathize is determined. AV - public ER -