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The Empathy Option: The Science of How and Why We Choose to be Empathetic
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Betsy VanNoy
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Dec 11, 2019
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We can choose to put ourselves in situations where we will feel empathy—the experience of understanding and actually sharing the feelings of someone else—or we can choose to avoid such situations.
Penn State psychologist and Rock Ethics Institute research associate C. Daryl Cameron is studying how we make that decision and whether we can be encouraged to be more empathetic.
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CBC Radio One's IDEAS episode features Eduardo Mendieta on philosopher Richard Rorty
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Betsy VanNoy
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Dec 11, 2019
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Mar 24, 2020 01:54 PM
Check out CBC Radio One’s episode of IDEAS on Richard Rorty, recorded at the second meeting of the Richard Rorty Society at Penn State. It features many of the Richard Rorty Society's members, including Eduardo Mendieta, Marianne Janack, Christopher Voparil, Susan Dieleman, Richard J. Bernstein, and Mary V. Rorty, among others.
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Eduardo Mendieta quoted in On The Media "Sticks and Stones" episode
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Betsy VanNoy
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Dec 10, 2019
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Mar 24, 2020 02:10 PM
Check out On the Media’s recent story, where Andrew Marantz speaks about Rorty and quotes Dr. Eduardo Mendieta. You can listen here.
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VA Eubanks Save the Date
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Betsy VanNoy
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Nov 18, 2019 09:06 AM
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Rock Ethics Institute Colloquium
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Betsy VanNoy
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Oct 23, 2019
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Oct 23, 2019 02:46 PM
"Towards Ethically Bounded Artificial Intelligence Systems: Algorithmic Fairness Through the Lens of Causality" by Vasant Honavar
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Richard B. Lippin Lecture in Ethics: Automating Inequality, Virginia Eubanks—Canceled
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Betsy VanNoy
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Oct 23, 2019
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Mar 26, 2020 01:51 PM
The Rock Ethics Institute welcomes Virginia Eubanks as the 2020 Richard B. Lippin Lecture in Ethics lecturer. The lecture, titled after her impactful book Automating Inequality, will consider the impacts of data mining, policy algorithms, and predictive risk models on poor and working-class people in America.
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Betsy VanNoy
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Oct 23, 2019 02:16 PM
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Richard Rorty Society, Second Meeting
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Betsy VanNoy
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Oct 23, 2019
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Oct 23, 2019 01:56 PM
Keynote Speaker: Robert Brandom
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2019 Richard Rorty Meeting
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