The Empathy Trap

London Event

We have all been encouraged to imagine how it feels to be in someone else's shoes. But is empathy really a good base for our morality? Might there be some truth to the new arguments emerging that empathy is so biased and parochial that anybody who wishes to promote social justice should avoid it at all costs? Join Director of the Centre for Subjectivity Research, Dan Zahavi, as he probes the value of empathy.

"one of the most prolific and insightful phenomenologists of his generation" Distinguished Professor Alessandro Duranti, University of California