[SydPhil] HPS Research Seminar, Thursday 30 May 2024 at 3.50pm

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How Many Empathies Are There?
A Puzzle About Co-Experienced Emotions
Heidi Maibom (University of Cincinnati & University of the Basque Country)


Dates: Thursday, 30 May 2024
Time: 3:50pm
Venue: A31.03.3001.Sydney Nanoscience Hub (SNH).SNH Seminar Room 3001
How to register: Free, no registration required
Abstract: Anybody familiar with the empathy literature will know that everybody’s busy distinguishing one form of empathy from others. And whereas it would certainly be helpful to agree on what the major distinctions are and what to call them, it remains a fact that many, if not most, empathic episodes are ones in which several different kinds of empathy cooccur. For instance, if exposed to someone who suffers, we typically experience a variety of distressed emotions and a variety of more sympathetic ones seemingly at the same time. But if that is true, the cooccurrence of these emotions presumably make a difference to the overall experience and its consequences. Almost nothing in the literature supposes that this is the case, proceeding as if we can assume that the emotion that is reported to be experienced most strongly at the time is the only one. In this paper, I examine what it is to experience several empathic emotions at the same time, how to reconcile the co-experiencing of emotions with opposite valences, physiology, and phenomenology, and argue for the importance of considering empathic episodes as a whole. This has consequences for how we think of emotions more generally also.

Bio: Heidi Maibom is Distinguished Research Professor at the University of the Basque Country and Professor of Philosophy at the University of Cincinnati. She has studied at the University of Copenhagen, Bologna University, and University College, held fellowships at Cambridge and Princeton Universities, a postdoc at Washington University in St. Louis, and her first job was at Carleton University. Maibom works on interpersonal understanding, empathy, emotions, psychopathology, moral psychology and responsibility. She has edited three volumes: Neurofeminism (w. R. Bluhm and A. Jaap Jacobsen), Empathy and Morality, Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Empathy, and authored Empathy and most recently The Space Between: How Empathy Really Works. She is currently writing a book about psychopathy and guilt (w. Charlie Kurth).



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