In our efforts to solve difficult social problems in particular, we rely too heavily on reason and numbers and econometrics, and not often enough on empathy. Empathy,” writes Paul Bloom in The New Yorker this week, “is parochial, narrow…

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For the fifth consecutive year, Sapienza University of Rome will host artists, performers, filmmakers, scholars and neuroscientists from different research centers in Europe and the United States on the occasion of the International Conference Dia…

In the May 20, 2013, issue of The New Yorker, Yale psychologist Paul Bloom agreed with my point. In reviewing a spate of recent books advocating the importance of empathy, Bloom concludes that empathy can only get us so far. He points out that emp…

There’s an interesting discussion of empathy in a column by Paul Bloom at The New Yorker. Bloom begins by summarizing the generally good press that empathy gets these days, because it is seen as humanizing our responses to the sufferings… I thi…

(Reuters) – For biologist Frans de Waal, a peaceful species of great ape in Africa is a mirror of humanity and a living argument that empathy and cooperation are far from unique to mankind.”The Bonobo and the Atheist: In Search of Humanism among the P…

In my article in the magazine this week, I made the case against empathy. Our capacity to put ourselves in the shoes of others—to feel their pain, to make their goals our own—might well be essential for intimate relationships. Nobody w…

 For biologist Frans de Waal, a peaceful species of great ape in Africa is a mirror of humanity and a living argument that empathy and cooperation are far from unique to mankind.”The Bonobo and the Atheist: In Search of Humanism among the Primates…