Author Archives

Dedicated and committed that empathy becomes less of a rumor and more of an expanded reality in the community...

• Galileo’s Middle Finger: What Happens When Science Collides With “Empathy” (in Quotation Marks)

  By Lou Agosta on April 24, 2015 • ( 1 )

  

  Join me for a conversation on Radio Empathy (click here for podcast on Spotify) with Alice Dreger about the conflict between scientific evidence and some interpretations of social justice and “empathy” (in quotation marks). Dreger starts out as a graduate student exploring… Read More ›

• Listening to Killers by James Garbarino – An Interview with Lou Agosta

  By Lou Agosta on April 16, 2015

  

  Join me for an “on the air” interview with Jim on the VoiceAmerica Empowerment Internet Radio network [click to listen]: A Rumor of Empathy in Listening to Killers – with replay available shortly after April 22nd. James Garbarino presents lessons… Read More ›

• Review: Empathy: What it is and why it matters by David Howe

  By Lou Agosta on April 13, 2015 • ( 2 )

  

  Join me for an engaging, live “on the air conversation” with David Howe, author of Empathy: What it is and why it matters. David Howe begins with the idea that empathy humanizes people and their relationships. Empathy is about our shared… Read More ›

• From Death in Venice to Empathy in Venice

  By Lou Agosta on March 10, 2015 • ( 1 )

  

  The city of Venice itself is the most significant symbol in Thomas Mann’s story. Even in 1912, when Death in Venice was published, Venice was sinking into the swamp on which in was built, sinking back into the unexpressed in the sense of… Read More ›

• UPDATE: A Rumor of Empathy at Affectiva: Reading Faces and Facial Coding Schemes Using Computer Systems

  By Lou Agosta on February 10, 2015

  

  UPDATE: Join Lou Agosta, host of a Rumor of Empathy, and his guest Dan McDuff, Principal Scientist Affectiva software, for an on the air conversation about the emotions on the Wednesday April 8, 2015 at noon CDT on the VoiceAmerican… Read More ›

• Predictions and Trends in Empathy for 2015

  By Lou Agosta on December 22, 2014

  

  Looking for patterns, this top ten list engages trends, innovations, and surprises that promote or narrow the expansion of empathy in the community. By definition, empathy is knowing what the other feels because I feel it too; not as a… Read More ›

• A Rumor of Empathy: Rewriting Empathy in the Context of Philosophy, the book, now available….

  By Lou Agosta on November 10, 2014

  

  Here is the short version of the short  version: The deep, underground history of empathy is surfaced and reconstructed in Hume, Kant, Lipps, Freud, Scheler, Stein, and Husserl. A rumor of empathy is engaged in vicarious feeling, receptivity, empathic understanding, empathic interpretation, and… Read More ›

• Top Ten Publications

  By Lou Agosta on September 25, 2014

  The following professional publications have garnered the most downloads over the years. They are included for those visitors to this site who have an academic, scholarly interest. These are peer-reviewed publications and tend to be scholarly. No apologies for that – just… Read More ›

• Update: Hume on SYMPATHY and EMPATHY

  By Lou Agosta on September 2, 2014

  HumeOnSympathyEmpathy (Article): There is a long history in British empiricist philosophy that engages “sympathy.” There are at least four meanings of “sympathy” in the writings of David Hume, dating to his a Treatise on Human Nature (1739). Hume has at least four distinct… Read More ›

• Hot Potatoes: Top Ten Misunderstandings about Psychoanalysis

  By Lou Agosta on December 15, 2013 • ( 1 )

  I have been talking with people in the community about what is “psychoanalysis.” The result? Many people no longer understand what is psychoanalysis – if they ever did understand it – or, even worse, have confused ideas about it. For… Read More ›