Publications

Short Format Essays

• It was a pleasure to write the inaugural post for the ISHPSSB Blog, on Empathy in the time of Covid-19.  Find it here.
• I also wrote a short piece on empathic leadership in the time of Covid-19 for the APA Newsletter on Feminism and Philosophy.  Find it here.

Peer-Reviewed Papers:

• Betzler, R. J. (forthcoming). Two Sources of Normativity in Enthusiastic Accounts of Kinds. British Journal for the Philosophy of Science. 
• Betzler, R. J. (2019). Finding Empathy: How neuroscientific measures, evidence, and conceptualisations interact. International Journal of Philosophical Studies. doi: 10.1080/09672559.2019.1601384.
• Betzler, R. J. (2018).  How to clarify the aims of empathy in medicine. Medicine, Healthcare, and Philosophy. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11019-018-9833-2.
• Betzler, R. J. (2016). Is Statistical Learning a Mechanism? Philosophical Psychology, 29(6), 826-43. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09515089.2016.1167179.
• Edwards, B. J., Rottman, B. M., Shankar, M., Betzler, R., Chituk, V., et al. (2014). Do Capuchin Monkeys (Cebus apella) Diagnose Causal Relations in the Absence of a Direct Reward? PLoS ONE, 9(2): e88595.doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0088595.

Book Reviews:

• Betzler, R. J. (2019). Review of Empathy: A History, by Susan Lanzoni. History of Emotions Blog: https://emotionsblog.history.qmul.ac.uk/2019/01/review-empathy-a-history-by-susan-lanzoni/.
• Betzler, R. J. (2019). Review of Empathy: Epistemic Problems and Cultural-Historical Perspectives of a Cross Disciplinary Concept, ed. V. Lux & S. Weigel. Philosophical Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1080/09515089.2019.1572666.
• Betzler, R. J. (2016). Review of Advances in Experimental Moral Psychology, ed. H. Sarkissian & J. Cole Wright. Ethics, 126(2), 531-6.

Please contact me if you would like a copy of any of my papers.