… variety of definitions of empathy. At the same time, the revival of sentimentalism has proposed
that empathy serves as a necessary criterion of moral agency. … best serves such agency. …

… Here I will agree with Kennett that even though a focus on empathy has yielded important
insights into our moral nature, such an approach is also restricted in how much it can explain. …

… critical to the development of moral agency. What underlies the … moral thinking in high‐functioning
autistic people supports a Kantian rather than a Humean account of moral agency…

… McGeer believes all varieties of (human) moral agency are rooted in affect; therefore all three
spheres are emotionally motivated. The different spheres can lead to emotional responses …

… Evidence for this conclusion comes from a variety of studies showing general … empathy
is typically the route by which agents develop the moral concern necessary for moral agency …

… assessing perceptions of moral agency and patiency of a variety of targets varying widely
in … Moral typecasting would imply, however, that these empathic emotions would be highly …

… does this mean for the development of moral agency? We begin by defining moral agency
and briefly sketching relations between moral agency and other concepts. We then outline …

… occurrences and unlikely confluences of a variety of factors leading to the occurrences of
events that we are interested in within the narrative. Reenactive empathy allows us to grasp a …

… Fourth, moral agency requires openness towards … This conception of moral agency plays
a very important role … value of the different varieties of empathy when guiding our interactions …

… the role of empathy in moral agency. … morals” [5]: that is, that to be a moral agent is to
possess the capacity for sympathy (where sympathy corresponds to what we currently call ‘empathy’…