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The Value of Empathy book cover

1st Edition

The Value of Empathy

Edited By Maria Baghramian, Meline Papazian, Rowland Stout Copyright 2021
276 Pages
by Routledge

276 Pages
by Routledge

276 Pages
by Routledge
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The Value of Empathy explores various approaches to understanding empathy and investigates its moral and practical role. The central role of empathy in understanding others, and the need for it in our social and inter-personal encounters, is widely acknowledged by philosophers, social scientists and psychologists alike. Discussions of empathy abound, not only in more specialised academic... Read more

Introduction: The Value of Empathy

Maria Baghramian, Meliné Papazian and Rowland Stout

1. The Relational Value of Empathy

Monika Betzler

2. Relational Empathy

Mark Fagiano

3. Language, Behaviour, and Empathy. G.H. Mead’s and W.V.O. Quine’s Naturalized Theories of Meaning

Guido Baggio

4. No Empathy for Empathy: An Existential Reading of Husserl’s Forgotten Question

Iraklis Ioannidis

5. Finding Empathy: How Neuroscientific Measures, Evidence and Conceptualizations Interact

Riana J. Betzler

6. The Contribution of Empathy to Ethics

Sarah Songhorian

7. The Empathetic Soldier

Kevin Cutright

8. Sentimentalist Practical Reason and Self-Sacrifice

Michael Slote

9. Pathophobia, Vices, and Illness

Ian James Kidd

10. Beyond Empathy: Vulnerability, Relationality and Dementia

Danielle Petherbridge

11. Empathy, Respect, and Vulnerability

Elisa Magrì

12. Empathy, Vulnerability and Anxiety

Rowland Stout

Biography

Maria Baghramian is Full Professor of American Philosophy in the School of Philosophy at University College Dublin (UCD) and the Co-founder and Co-director of the Cognitive Science Programme at UCD. She is also a Member of the Royal Irish Academy. Currently she coordinates the Horizon 2020 project Policy, Expertise and Trust in Action (PEriTiA).

Meliné Papazian is completing a PhD in Cognitive Science on Empathy at University College Dublin. She has given conference papers and conducted workshops in France, Italy, Netherlands, Armenia and Ireland. She was also one of the editors of Perspectives, International Postgraduate Journal of Philosophy. In a previous life, she counselled victims of domestic violence in Los Angeles.

Rowland Stout is Professor of Philosophy at University College Dublin, a Member of the Royal Irish Academy and Editor of the International Journal of Philosophical Studies. He is Director of the UCD Centre for Ethics in Public Life and Team Leader for the Work Package on the Ethics of Trust within the EU Horizon 2020 project PEriTiA (Policy, Expertise and Trust in Action).

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