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Paul Bloom

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First reported May 20 2013 - Updated May 20 2013 - 1 reports

Jodi Halpern: Don't Blame Empathy

In a recent New Yorker piece, Paul Bloom argues that empathy is the wrong stance for public morality, as in promoting public health, because it focuses our attention on the individuals we readily empathize with -- such as the baby stuck in a well -- and ... [Published Huffington Post - May 20 2013]

Entities: Paul Bloom, Morality, Ethical, Public Health

First reported May 20 2013 - Updated May 20 2013 - 1 reports

The Weekend Wrap

This weekend on the Dish, Andrew praised the sanity of the American people, saw the deep Christianity in an Obama commencement speech, and continued to dissect the awfulness of a recent Peggy Noonan column. We also provided our usual eclectic ... [Published The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan - May 20 2013]

Entities: Jaroslav Pelikan, James V. Schall, Alex Shaw, Christianity, Andre Dubus

First reported May 19 2013 - Updated May 19 2013 - 2 reports

The Limits Of Empathy

Paul Bloom identifies them:[Jeremy] Rifkin and others have argued, plausibly, that moral progress involves expanding our concern from the family and the tribe to humanity as a whole. Yet it is impossible to empathize with seven billion strangers, or to ... [Published Atlantic Monthly - May 19 2013]

Entities: Limits, Paul Bloom, Simon Baron-Cohen, Jeremy Rifkin

First reported May 18 2013 - Updated May 18 2013 - 1 reports

National Geographic Society

Your weekend reading: The case against empathy, gorgeous photos from the NatGeo contest

If you can only digest six awesome pieces of Internet content this week (plus one congrats), look no further. Here’s a round-up of the best stories on the webs this week. Paul Bloom: The origins of pleasure TED speaker Paul Bloom makes a compelling ... [Published TED Blog - May 18 2013]

Entities: Paul Bloom, National Geographic Society, Damon Horowitz

First reported May 17 2013 - Updated May 17 2013 - 1 reports

Yale partners with MOOC platform

Five months after a faculty committee report re-emphasized the importance of online education initiatives at the University, Yale has decided to offer massive open online courses, or MOOCs, for the first time.Provost Benjamin Polak announced the University’s ... [Published Yale Daily News - May 17 2013]

Entities: Benjamin Polak, Craig Wright, Education, Paul Bloom, Robert Shiller

First reported May 16 2013 - Updated May 16 2013 - 1 reports

Michael Zakaras: The Case Against the Case Against Empathy

"Empathy," writes Paul Bloom in The New Yorker this week, "is parochial, narrow-minded, and innumerate. We're often at our best when we're smart enough not to rely on it." We'd be better off were we to supplant our flawed empathetic sensibilities with ... [Published Huffington Post - May 16 2013]

Entities: Paul Bloom, Jessica McClure, Natalee Holloway

First reported May 16 2013 - Updated May 16 2013 - 1 reports

"Look at this Boston bombing. The pictures of those two brothers. Aren’t they cute?"

Said I, as quoted in The New Yorker today in a piece by Paul Bloom called "The Dzhokar Tsarnaev Empathy Problem." I was being sarcastic and criticizing the media for using a strikingly baby-faced picture of Tsarnaev in practically ever report.Bloom ... [Published Althouse - May 16 2013]

Entities: Paul Bloom, Bombing, Boston (Massachusetts, United States)

First reported May 16 2013 - Updated May 16 2013 - 1 reports

Empathy and its limits

There's an interesting discussion of empathy in a column by Paul Bloom at The New Yorker. Bloom begins by summarizing the generally good press that empathy gets these days, because it is seen as humanizing our responses to the sufferings of others. But ... [Published normblog - May 16 2013]

Entities: Paul Bloom, Humanism, Famine

First reported May 16 2013 - Updated May 16 2013 - 1 reports

Soon, You'll Know As Much About What You Buy As the Company That Made It

The term "Big Data" naturally conjures up images of Big Users, like the government or Google or Costco. It's easy to see why big enterprises crunch data to learn, for example, which groceries people want on the first day of a heat wave and which they ... [Published Big Think - May 16 2013]

Entities: Koch Industries Inc, Paul Slovic, Big Data, Paul Bloom, Bangladesh

First reported May 15 2013 - Updated May 15 2013 - 1 reports

The Limits of Empathy

In my last blog post, I talked about a video of two-second grade children in my Teaching Children Philosophy program, who are shown discussing ethical issues arising from The Giving Tree. I pointed out that each of them empathized with one of the two ... [Published Psychology Today - May 15 2013]

Entities: Paul Bloom, Limits, Morality, Mount Holyoke College, Ethical

First reported May 14 2013 - Updated May 14 2013 - 1 reports

The case against empathy

Paul Bloom in The New Yorker: The immense power of empathy has been demonstrated again and again. It is why Americans were rivetted by the fate of Natalee Holloway, the teen-ager who went missing in Aruba, in 2005. It’s why, in the wake of widely ... [Published 3quarksdaily - May 14 2013]

Entities: Natalee Holloway, Hurricane Katrina, Paul Slovic, Paul Bloom

First reported Apr 30 2013 - Updated Apr 30 2013 - 1 reports

Who's Responsible for Mold in Your Apartment? (VIDEO)

video platformvideo managementvideo solutionsvideo playerImagine your own home making you sick. When mold -- and we mean more than that stuff growing on your month-old sandwich in the fridge -- starts taking over your apartment, it can cause serious health ... [Published AOL.com - Apr 30 2013]

Entities: Paul Bloom, AOL LLC, Nolo.com

Quotes

"it was total amazement at how well these guys played" said Bloom 19, whose family saw the Brubeck quintet perform at the Smithsonian Institution when he was a high school freshman

Two jazz awards honor album by Pacific's Brubeck quintet [Published Recordnet.com - May 02 2013]

More Content

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Jodi Halpern: Don't Blame Empathy [Published Huffington Post - May 20 2013]
The Weekend Wrap [Published The Daily Dish \| By Andrew Sullivan - May 20 2013]
The Limits Of Empathy [Published Atlantic Monthly - May 19 2013]
The Limits Of Empathy [Published The Daily Dish \| By Andrew Sullivan - May 19 2013]
Your weekend reading: The case against empathy,... [Published TED Blog - May 18 2013]
Yale partners with MOOC platform [Published Yale Daily News - May 17 2013]
Michael Zakaras: The Case Against the Case Agai... [Published Huffington Post - May 16 2013]
"Look at this Boston bombing. The pictures of t... [Published Althouse - May 16 2013]
Empathy and its limits [Published normblog - May 16 2013]
Soon, You'll Know As Much About What You Buy As... [Published Big Think - May 16 2013]
Yale expands online education, appoints new dir... [Published Yale Daily News - May 16 2013]
Economics and Armchair Psychology [Published RINF.com - May 16 2013]
The Limits of Empathy [Published Psychology Today - May 15 2013]
The case against empathy [Published 3quarksdaily - May 14 2013]
Stuart Muszynski: Does Hate Live Among Us? [Published Huffington Post - May 08 2013]
Ports Workshop to Explore Maritime Economic Dri... [Published Maritime Professional - May 07 2013]
Two jazz awards honor album by Pacific's Brubec... [Published Recordnet.com - May 02 2013]
Pride faces backlash from defenders of gay whis... [Published San Francisco Bay Guardian - Apr 30 2013]
UConn students (and parents) may be asked to fo... [Published The Connecticut Mirror - Apr 30 2013]
Who's Responsible for Mold in Your Apartment? (... [Published AOL.com - Apr 30 2013]
Brainwashed: The Seductive Appeal of Mindless N... [Published American Enterprise Institute - Apr 29 2013]
Brubeck Institute Lends its Jazzy Sounds and Kn... [Published University of the Pacific - Apr 29 2013]
Why You Should Settle For “Good Enough” [Published The Daily Dish \| By Andrew Sullivan - Apr 28 2013]
This week -- Published April 18, 2013 [Published Recordnet.com - Apr 18 2013]
In Favor Of Favoritism [Published The Daily Dish \| By Andrew Sullivan - Mar 17 2013]
IBM’s mobile first plan is really about cloud f... [Published GigaOM - Feb 21 2013]
IBM’s mobile first plan is really about cloud f... [Published GigaOM Network - Feb 21 2013]
Money Power: Tips on setting up a home office [Published Tulsa World - Feb 16 2013]
Does Religion Serve a Purpose? [Published naked capitalism - Feb 03 2013]
IBM: Computers Are Going to Start Making a Lot ... [Published TechNewsWorld - Dec 18 2012]

Blogs

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The Weekend Wrap [Published The Daily Dish \| By Andrew Sullivan - May 20 2013] This weekend on the Dish, Andrew praised the sanity of the American people, saw the deep Christianity in an Obama commencement speech, and continued to dissect the awfulness of a recent Peggy Noonan column. We also provided our usual eclectic ...
The Limits Of Empathy [Published The Daily Dish \| By Andrew Sullivan - May 19 2013] Paul Bloom identifies them: [Jeremy] Rifkin and others have argued, plausibly, that moral progress involves expanding our concern from the family and the tribe to humanity as a whole. Yet it is impossible to empathize with seven billion strangers, ...
Your weekend reading: The case against empathy,... [Published TED Blog - May 18 2013] If you can only digest six awesome pieces of Internet content this week (plus one congrats), look no further. Here’s a round-up of the best stories on the webs this week. Paul Bloom: The origins of pleasure TED speaker Paul Bloom makes a compelling ...
"Look at this Boston bombing. The pictures of t... [Published Althouse - May 16 2013] Said I, as quoted in The New Yorker today in a piece by Paul Bloom called "The Dzhokar Tsarnaev Empathy Problem." I was being sarcastic and criticizing the media for using a strikingly baby-faced picture of Tsarnaev in practically ever report.Bloom ...
Empathy and its limits [Published normblog - May 16 2013] There's an interesting discussion of empathy in a column by Paul Bloom at The New Yorker. Bloom begins by summarizing the generally good press that empathy gets these days, because it is seen as humanizing our responses to the sufferings of others. But ...