Against empathy: The case for rational compassion

Philosophical Psychology 31 (3):479-482 (2018)
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Against Empathy: The Case for Rational Compassion brings a critique of empathy to mainstream, non-academic readership. Bloom uses a narrow understanding of empathy—“the act of feeling what you thin...

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10.1080/09515089.2018.1442923

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How the case against empathy overreaches.Riana J. Betzler - forthcoming - Philosophical Psychology.

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