In the last handful of posts, I have sought to demonstrate some rather uncomfortable and infelicitous things about our near-universal celebration of empathy. One is that it is based on a false metaphysical picture of human beings as weak…

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Can empathy play a role in the pursuit of justice, and do either justice or empathy help in thinking about ethics beyond the human? Wesleyan philosopher Lori Gruen explores these two questions in her March 10, 2016 lecture titled “Justice and Emp…

In a way few can do, Obama called the country together to reach across the gaping divide that was exposed this week. He summed up the divided understanding many Blacks and whites have about policing and police violence. He suggested reality is more com…