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I - Introduction

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 December 2017

Neil Roughley
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Universität Duisburg–Essen
Thomas Schramme
Affiliation:
University of Liverpool
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Forms of Fellow Feeling
Empathy, Sympathy, Concern and Moral Agency
, pp. 1 - 56
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2018

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