Amy Coplan is Associate Professor of Philosophy at California State University, Fullerton. Her primary research interests are in philosophy of emotion, aesthetics (especially philosophy of film), feminist philosophy, and ancient Greek philosophy. She has published articles on the nature and importance of emotion and on various forms of emotional engagement with film, including empathy, sympathy, and emotional contagion. She is currently editing a collection on the film Blade Runner for the Routledge series Philosophers on Film.

Peter Goldie was the Samuel Hall Chair in Philosophy at the University of Manchester. His main philosophical interests included the philosophy of mind, ethics, and aesthetics, and particularly questions concerning value and how the mind engages with value. His books include The Emotions: A Philosophical Exploration (OUP, 2000), and On Personality (Routledge, 2004), and the co-authored Who's Afraid of Conceptual Art? (Routledge, 2010). He edited Understanding Emotions: Mind and Morals (Ashgate, 2002), and The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Emotion (OUP, 2010), and co-edited Philosophy and Conceptual Art (OUP, 2007).

Heather D. Battaly, California State University, Fullerton
Noël Carroll, City University of New York
Amy Coplan, California State University, Fullerton
Gregory Currie, University of Nottingham
Stephen Davies, University of Auckland
Jean Decety, University of Chicago
Susan L. Feagin, Temple University
Peter Goldie, University of Manchester
Alvin I. Goldman, Rutgers University
Martin L. Hoffman, New York University
Marco Iacoboni, University of California, Los Angeles
E. Ann Kaplan, Stony Brook University
Derek Matravers, The Open University
Graham McFee, University of Brighton
Dominic McIver Lopes, University of British Columbia
Andrew N. Meltzoff, University of Washington
Adam Morton, Professor and Canada Research Chair in Epistemology and Decision Theory
Jesse J. Prinz, City University of New York
Murray Smith, University of Kent

"A must have read for any researcher on empathy not only for researchers on empathy in philosophy."--Eva-Maria Engelen, British Journal of Aesthetics

"There is much here for deep reflection and the authors are to be commended highly for their enterprise in producing such an enormous, stimulating book on such a difficult and wide-ranging, inter-personal component of human behaviour."--Michael N. Marsh, ESSSAT News & Reviews

"I found the volume very stimulating and the breadth of discussion refreshing ... I highly recommend it to people interested in empathy and empathy-related phenomena." -- Mind