Lecture | Empathy with Evil: Social Science and the Empathy Dilemma

Program

Thurday 27th

• 9h30-10h45 : Empathy with Evil and Moral Judgment, Karsten STUEBER (College of the Holy Cross
• 11h15-12h : Good Transformative Empathy, Raphaël KÜNSTLER (Toulouse University)
• 12h-12h45 : Empathy, Underpinning all Interviewing Techniques, Jacques PY (Toulouse University)
• 14h-14h45 : Imagining and Empathizing, Michel LE DU (Aix-Marseille University)
• 14h45-15h30 : Thick Ethical Concept of Evil and Empathy, Agata LUKOMSKA (University of Warshaw)
• 16h-17h15 : Empathy with the Devil and Auto-Empathy, Nigel PLEASANTS (University of Exeter)

Friday 28th

• 9h30-10h45 : Mental Boundaries: Contempt and Divided Sympathy, Laurent JAFFRO (Pantheon-Sorbonne University)
• 10h15-11h : Understanding without feeling: Max Scheler on Empathy, Eric TREMAULT (Independent)
• 12h-12h45 : Limits of Empathy, Limits of Alterity ? The Challenges and Shortcomings of an Empathy for Children, Elsa DORLIN (Toulouse University) & Claudia SERBAN (Toulouse University)
• 14h-14h45 : Should we Empathize with Evil People?, Christiana WERNER (University of Duisburg-Essen)
• 14h45-15h30 : Normative Social Science Concepts and Scientific Understanding – Fundamentalism as a Case Study, Nora KINDERMANN (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
• 16h-17h15 : Value by Acquaintance, L. A. PAUL (Yale University)