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SUMMARY:On Imagining Being Someone Else
DESCRIPTION:Julia Langkau (Fribourg) In philosophical and psychological lit
 erature\, it is common to distinguish two kinds of perspective taking\, im
 agining oneself in another person&rsquo\;s situation: in-their-shoes persp
 ective-shifting\, and imagining being the other person in their situation:
  empathetic perspective-shifting. Peter Goldie has cast doubt on the disti
 nction and argues that empathetic perspective-shifting is conceptually imp
 ossible. This paper first presents Goldie&rsquo\;s view and then argues th
 at while we can distinguish two different aims in perspective-taking\, the
  underlying processes are similar\, and the only challenges we face are ep
 istemic and psychological in nature. As a consequence\, skepticism towards
  empathetic perspective-shifting leads to skepticism towards in-their-shoe
 s perspective-shifting\, and optimism towards the second justifies optimis
 m with respect to the first. Using the example of perspective taking with 
 fictional characters\, I finally show how an epistemically ideal context c
 an pose psychological challenges\, and how an epistemically less ideal con
 text can make it easier to imagine being someone else.
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