11 Dec

Workshop Empathy and its Limits

Date:

Thu:
9:30 am - 6:00 pm

11 December 2025

Location:

ZEPP, LMU Main Building, Room no. M210 LMU München Geschwister-Scholl-Platz 1 80539 Munich

Workshop in the framework of the LMU-Cambridge Strategic Partnership, co-organized by Monika Betzler (LMU) and Rae Langton and Richard Holton (Cambridge)

Program:

9:30 - 10:45 Radu Bumbacea (LMU): Is Mindreading a Breach of Privacy?

10:45 - 12:00 Katharina Sodoma (LMU-FAU Erlangen): Empathy Bias and Hermeneutical Injustice

12:00 - 13:30 Lunch (for Speakers)

13:30 - 14:45 Facundo Rodriguez (Cambridge): The Prison of the Self: Loneliness, shared action, and shared feeling

14:45 - 15:15 Coffee Break

15:15 - 16:30 Rae Langton (Cambridge): Empathy and Objectification

16:30 - 16:45 Coffee Break

16:45 - 18:00 Monika Betzler (LMU) and Erasmus Mayr (FAU Erlangen): The Metaphysics of Empathy

Program (PDF, 108 KB)