caa a22 4500 605448426 CHVBK 20210128100136.0 cr unu---uuuuu 210128e20150901xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10539-015-9495-x doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10539-015-9495-x Monsó Susana Department of Logic, History and Philosophy of Science, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED), Madrid, Spain aut Empathy and morality in behaviour readers [Elektronische Daten] [Susana Monsó] It is tempting to assume that being a moral creature requires the capacity to attribute mental states to others, because a creature cannot be moral unless she is capable of comprehending how her actions can have an impact on the well-being of those around her. If this assumption were true, then mere behaviour readers could never qualify as moral, for they are incapable of conceptualising mental states and attributing them to others. In this paper, I argue against such an assumption by discussing the specific case of empathy. I present a characterisation of empathy that would not require an ability to attribute mental states to others, but would nevertheless allow the creature who possessed it to qualify as a moral being. Provided certain conditions are met, a behaviour reader could be motivated to act by this form of empathy, and this means that behaviour readers could be moral. The case for animal morality, I shall argue, is therefore independent of the case for animal mindreading. Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht, 2015 Empathy nationallicence Morality nationallicence Moral emotions nationallicence Nonhuman animals nationallicence Behaviour reading nationallicence Mindreading/theory of mind nationallicence Biology & Philosophy Springer Netherlands 30/5(2015-09-01), 671-690 0169-3867 30:5<671 2015 30 10539 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10539-015-9495-x text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10539-015-9495-x text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Monsó Susana Department of Logic, History and Philosophy of Science, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED), Madrid, Spain aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Biology & Philosophy Springer Netherlands 30/5(2015-09-01), 671-690 0169-3867 30:5<671 2015 30 10539