Workshop: Empathy and its Limits
Date
December 11, 2025
Location
Center for Ethics and Philosophy in Practice
LMU Munich, Main Building, Room M 210 (LMU room finder)
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 (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