Empathy and Morality (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Maibom, Heidi L.

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

The relationship between empathy and morality has long been debated. Adam Smith and David Hume famously argued that our tendency to feel with our fellow human beings played a foundational role in morality. And while recent decades have seen a resurgence of interest in the idea that empathy or sympathy is central to moral judgment and motivation, the view is nonetheless increasingly attacked. Empathy is so morally limited, some argue, that we should focus our attention elsewhere. Yet the importance of our capacities to feel with and for others is hard to deny. This collection is dedicated to the question of the importance of these capacities to morality. It brings together twelve original papers in philosophy, psychology, psychiatry, anthropology, and neuroscience to give a comprehensive overview of the issue and includes an extensive survey of empathy and empathy-related emotions. Some contributors argue that empathy is essential to core cases of moral judgments, others that empathic concern and moral considerations give rise to wholly distinct motives. Contributors look at such issues as the absence of empathy in psychopaths, the use of empathy training for rehabilitating violent offenders, and the presence of empathy in other primates. The volume is distinctive in focusing on the moral import of empathy and sympathy.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 400
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Juni 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780199969487
• Artikelnr.: 41271575

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