Book review: ‘Zero Degrees of Empathy: A New Theory of Human Cruelty’
Posted by Libby Webber (see more…) on 17 May, 2012 | 0 comments

Empathy is the ability to see someone else's experiences as if they were your own, but what's the scientific basis of it? And what does empathy have to do with 'the problem of evil'?
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