Empathy and Morality

Herausgeber: Maibom, Heidi L

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This volume contains twelve original papers about the importance of empathy and sympathy to morality, with perspectives from philosophy, psychology, psychiatry, anthropology, and neuroscience.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Juni 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 155mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 612g
• ISBN-13: 9780199969470
• ISBN-10: 0199969477
• Artikelnr.: 40076066

Autorenporträt

Heidi L. Maibom is professor of philosophy at University of Cincinnati. She studied at University of Copenhagen, University of Bologna, and University College London, and has held fellowships at Cambridge and Princeton Universities. She works on folk psychology, empathy, responsibility, and psychopathy.

Inhaltsangabe

* Contributors
* 1. Heidi L. Maibom: Introduction: Everything you ever wanted to know
about empathy
* 2. Daniel Batson: Empathy-induced altruism and morality: No necessary
connection
* 3. Tracy L. Spinrad and Nancy Eisenberg: Empathy and morality: A
developmental psychology perspective
* 4. Martin L. Hoffman: Empathy, justice, and social change
* 5. Antti Kauppinen: Empathy, emotion regulation, and moral judgment
* 6. George Graham and K. Richard Garrett: At the empathetic center of
our moral lives
* 7. Abigail A. Marsh: Empathic and moral deficits in psychopathy.
* 8. Giuseppe Ugazio, Jasminka Majdandzic, and Claus Lamm: Are empathy
and morality linked? Evidence from moral psychology, social and
decision neuroscience, and philosophy
* 9. R. Peter Hobson and Jessica Hobson: On empathy: A perspective from
developmental psychopathology.
* 10. Kristin Andrews and Lori Gruen: Empathy in other apes.
* 11. Tony Ward and Russil Durrant: Psychological altruism, empathy,
and offender rehabilitation.
* 12. Douglas Hollan: Empathy and morality in ethnographic perspective