Introduction K. Bantinaki, E. Kyprianidou and F. Vassiliou 1. What Is Aesthetic Empathy and How Does it Work? A Historic-Systematic Approach Thomas Petraschka Part I. Empathy with Fictional Others: Challenges and Complexities 2. Imagining Empathy for Fictional Characters Jonathan Gilmore 3. Imaginative Freedom and Epistemic Constraints in the Context of Literary Text Julia Langkau 4.

Videogames as Vehicles for Empathetic Perspective-Shifting: Imagining Psychosis in Hellblade Christopher Bartel 5. Authentic Performance and Empathy Maria José Alcaraz León Part II. Empathy and Aesthetic Cognitivism 6. Empathy, Imagination, and the Epistemic Value of Fiction Amy Kind 7. Affective Empathy and Imagined Emotion in Literary Fiction Cain Todd 8. Empathic Imaginings and 'Knowledge of What it Is Like' in Aesthetic Cognitivism Íngrid Vendrell Ferran Part III. Empathy and the Moral Stance 9. The Rhetoric of Empathy in Narrative Film Carl Plantinga 10.

Stepping Into Ill-Fitting Shoes: The Rewards and Perils of Empathy for Rough Heroes Panos Paris 11. Cheap Empathy: Sam Lipsyte's The Ask Tzachi Zamir Part IV. Beyond Fiction: Empathy in the Experience of Music and Architecture 12. The Role of Empathy in Musical Experience and Understanding Joel Smith 13. The Social Dimension of Music Listening: Empathy and the Experience of Feeling Moved Jonna Vuoskoski 14. Varieties of Empathy in Architecture Anne Tüscher 15. From Feeling Into to Feeling With: Rhythm, Resonance and Response Sarah Robinson Index.