In this paper, I provide a rich account of the mental content representing the intentionality of empathic emotion in cases concerning activist art. At the core of this account is a distinction between intentional content and what I call mediating content. Intentional content is, with regard to empathic emotion, a proposition referring to the relationship between the emotion empathised with and its intentional object. Mediating content is a proposition representing the emotion empathised with which also attributes that emotion to the person empathised with. I argue that this distinction is necessary to account for when a person’s affective empathy is provoked by activist art. This is because the emotion empathised with is, in such cases, not per se an actually occurring emotion. I suggest that the emotion empathised with is instead a hypothetical emotion which attributes to a description of the people within the situations symbolised by activist art.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:uu-516126 |
| Date | January 2023 |
| Creators | Öhnström, Anthony |
| Publisher | Uppsala universitet, Filosofiska institutionen |
| Source Sets | DiVA Archive at Upsalla University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Student thesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis, text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
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