February 6, 2007
Clark lecture to focus on the importance of empathy
Worcester, Mass. - The Clark University Philosophy Department Lecture Series will present "Empathy and its Importance for Understanding Other Minds," a lecture by Karsten Stueber, professor at the College of the Holy Cross. This free, public lecture will begin at 4:30 p.m. Thursday, February 15, in the Lurie Conference Room of the Higgins University Center, 950 Main Street.
Professor Stueber will discuss how human beings know that other persons are in pain or that they are happy, and that they act because they have certain feelings and thoughts. The talk will argue that empathy understood as a form of mental imitation is central for our folk psychological understanding of each other.
Professor Stueber received his Ph.D. from the University of Tübingen, Germany. He has widely published in the area of philosophy of language, philosophy of mind, and the philosophy of the social sciences. His writings and research interests have most recently involved providing an account of our ability to understand other agents. These interests are reflected in his recent book Rediscovering Empathy: Agency, Folk Psychology, and the Human Sciences (MIT Press 2006). He was secretary treasurer of the Society for Philosophy and Psychology from 1998-2001.
This lecture is sponsored by the Higgins School of Humanities at Clark University. For more information, contact 508-793-7479.
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