{"id":3695,"date":"2011-05-03T09:22:41","date_gmt":"2011-05-03T08:22:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/?p=3695"},"modified":"2020-07-27T21:49:42","modified_gmt":"2020-07-27T20:49:42","slug":"zero-degrees-of-empathy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/zero-degrees-of-empathy\/","title":{"rendered":"Zero Degrees of Empathy: A New Theory of Human Cruelty"},"content":{"rendered":"

Simon Baron-Cohen<\/h3>\n

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\n6.30-8.00pm | Tuesday 3 May 2011<\/strong>
\nSheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building, LSE<\/p>\n

Speaker<\/strong>
\nSimon Baron-Cohen,<\/strong>\u00a0Professor of Developmental Psychopathology, University of Cambridge, Fellow, Trinity College, Cambridge, and Director of the Autism Research Centre (ARC), Cambridge<\/p>\n

Simon Baron-Cohen, expert in autism and developmental psychopathology, discussed recent discoveries on the importance of empathy for understanding human cruelty. His new book Zero Degrees of Empathy: A New Theory of Human Cruelty<\/em> presents a new way of understanding what it is that leads individuals to treat others inhumanely, and challenges all of us to consider replacing the idea of evil with the idea of an empathy deficit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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