Can dogs really show empathy towards humans?
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Morals and markets
Sandel plugging his latest. The journalist’s quote below has much resonance to me. Even to a toddler’s mind, the logic of the transaction was evidently clear – if he had to be bribed, then the potty couldn’t be a good idea – and within a week he had grown so suspicious and upset that we…
Seeing What You Mean
Brief Alva Noë article.
The New Theories of Moral Sentiments
Here is an article in the WSJ on Deirdre McCloskey. I had the honour and pleasure to meet Deirdre some 18 months ago at a conference on behavioral economics in San Diego. She was absolutely delightful. Everything you wanted to know about Deirdre but were afraid to ask . . . can be found here. Austrian…
Peter Goldie
Here is the very excellent obituarist Jane O’Grady on the late Peter Goldie whom I met very briefly in a pub near UCL. I met Jane some eight years ago at a conference in, I think, Tunbridge Wells. She was a fascinating person to talk to and told me about the process of obituary writing, much…
Empathy: Philosophical and Psychological Perspectives
Check out this volume about to be released. Here is Jesse Prinz’ contribution “Is Empathy Necessary for Morality?“
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