Karsten R. Stueber

Karsten Stueber is Professor and Chair at the Department of Philosophy at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts. He was born in Flensburg, Germany and received his PhD in Philosophy from the University of Tübingen. He has widely published in the area of the philosophy of language, philosophy of mind, and the philosophy of the social sciences. In his research, he is particularly concerned with questions having to do with the nature of rational and linguistic agency and with providing an account of our ability to understand such agents. More specifically, he claims that empathy is epistemically central for this purpose. At the moment he explores the metaphysical and meta-ethical implications of empathy's involvement in understanding other agents for our conception of mental causation and for better understanding the foundation of morality and moral judgments.