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The Space Between: How Empathy Really Works

Autor Heidi L. Maibom
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 23 sep 2022
When Barack Obama nominated Sonia Sotomayor to the US Supreme Court, his comments that a judge should have "the heart, the empathy, to recognize what it's like to be a young teenage mom, the empathy to understand what it's like to be poor or African-American or gay, disabled, or old" caused a furor. Objective, reasoned, and impartial judgment were to be replaced by partiality, sentiment, and bias, critics feared. This concern about empathy has since been voiced not just by conservative critics, but by academics and public figures. In The Space Between, Heidi Maibom combines results from philosophy, psychology, and neuroscience to argue that rather than making us more biased or partial, empathy makes us more impartial and more objective. The problem is that we don't see the world objectively in the first place, Maibom explains. We see it in terms of how we are placed in it: as an extension of our interests, capabilities, and relationships. This is a perspective and it determines what we pay attention to, how we interpret events, and what matters to us individually. It is not private, however. By means of the imagination, Maibom contends, we can place ourselves in another person's web interests, capabilities, and relationships and, viewing the world from there, experience a new way of interpreting and valuing what happens. This broadens and deepens our understanding of others and the world around us. It also helps us understand the greater reality of who we are ourselves.Maibom's book weaves together results from philosophy, psychology, and neuroscience to provide a positive up-to-date view of what it really means to take another person's perspective, and how empathy, rather than being the enemy of objectivity, is the foundation of it.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780197637081
ISBN-10: 0197637086
Pagini: 320
Dimensiuni: 147 x 216 x 26 mm
Greutate: 0.49 kg
Editura: Oxford University Press
Colecția OUP USA
Locul publicării:New York, United States

Recenzii

The book's audience is interdisciplinary, and the writing is accessible. The text includes useful, sometimes humorous, examples and less jargon than one would expect when philosopher meets social psychologist and lawyer. This argument for empathy in moral decision-making will be welcome in law, philosophy, and social psychology collections.
[The Space Between] is compelling in its arguments, and lively in its writing, with trenchant examples drawn not only from philosophical and psychological theorizing, but also from cultural sources as varied as A Midsummer Night's Dream, Moby Dick, and Buffy the Vampire Slayer. I learned a lot from reading this book; despite having studied empathy in one form or another for over 40 years, this book made me think about perspective taking in some entirely new ways.
Heidi Maibom's new book is a comprehensive, philosophically astute, and psychologically meticulously researched study about the role that imaginative perspective-taking plays for interpersonal understanding and our self-conceptions. The Space Between: How Empathy Really Works is a thoroughly enjoyable read in that it illustrates abstract points through well-chosen examples from literature, film, and ordinary life. It very much practices what it preaches.
The 'social brain' involves as much plastic cortex as brain areas for science, logic, and the three r's. Yet, until now, empathy has remained poorly understood. This engaging, humorous, and insightful book provides the first intellectually satisfying account of this sophisticated mode of human understanding. Maibom brilliantly reveals why empathy depends on emotion and how it makes us more--not less--impartial and objective.
The Space Between opens upmany fruitful avenues for discussion regarding perspective taking's nature, benefits, and shortcomings--discussion that we, across disciplines, have very pressing reasons to pursue.

Notă biografică

Heidi L. Maibom received her Cand Phil from University of Copenhagen in 1994 and her PhD from University of London in 2000. She was a Postdoc in the Philosophy-Neuroscience-Psychology program at Washington University in St. Louis 2001-2003, and Assistant/Associate Professor of Philosophy at the Institute of Cognitive Science and Department of Philosophy at Carleton University 2003-2013. She has been Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Cincinnati since 2014. In 2021, she became Ikerbasque Research Professor & Distinguished Professor at ILCLI at the University of the Basque Country. She has held fellowships at Cambridge University and Princeton University.