Film:
Thanks to PhiloCast for interviewing me after the Cambridge-LMU Moral Psychology Network meeting in Munich this past summer! Listen to my thoughts on empathy as skill and empathy in medicine here!
I was also interviewed by Greg Boyle for a short film about the KLI. You can view the video on youtube. Many thanks to Greg for doing a wonderful job creating the film!
Public Engagement:
- March-April 2021: Cambridge Festival: The Talking Cure Podcast
- Give our podcast series on the history, philosophy, and sociology of psychotherapy a listen here: https://soundcloud.com/riana-betzler/sets/the-talking-cure-podcast
- Organized and recorded with the CRASSH Cambridge research network, ‘Talking as cure?’ (co-convened with Sahanika Ratnayake and Hannah Blythe.
- August 2019: Big Ideas Session: ‘Empathy in the Courtroom?’ HMP Warren Hill
- Led a seminar on the role of empathy in legal proceedings at HMP Warren Hill. I plan to continue with this kind of engagement through Cambridge’s Learning Together Programme.
- March 2017: Brain Awareness Week, Vienna, Austria
- Organised a screening of the film, ‘Experimenter,’ which is about Milgram’s obedience experiments, followed by a discussion with a panel of experts. The event was aimed at high school students in Vienna.
Invited Talks:
- March 2021
- Kinds, Sameness of Kind, and Empathy
- St. Louis Area Philosophy of Science Association Conference (online)
- Kinds, Sameness of Kind, and Empathy
- November 2020
- Evolution & Empathy
- McGill University; guest seminar for Professor Ehab Abouheif’s Evolution and Society Course (online)
- Evolution & Empathy
- October 2020
- Empathy and Agency in the Clinical Encounter
- CRASSH Cambridge Health, Medicine, and Agency Network (online)
- Empathy and Agency in the Clinical Encounter
- October 2019
- Empathy, Emotions and Law
- Cambridge Socio-Legal Group Seminar, Cambridge
- Empathy, Emotions and Law
- July 2019
- Empathy as a Skill
- Cambridge/LMU Moral Psychology Workshop
- Empathy as a Skill
- May 2019
- Follow the Measures: conceptualisation, measurement, and interdisciplinary in the science of empathy
- Cambridge Philosophy of Science Seminar, Cambridge
- Follow the Measures: conceptualisation, measurement, and interdisciplinary in the science of empathy
- September 2018
- Finding Empathy: How neuroscientific measures, evidence, and conceptualisations interact
- Konrad Lorenz Institute Colloquium, Klosterneuburg
- Finding Empathy: How neuroscientific measures, evidence, and conceptualisations interact
- April 2018
- Should we be eliminativists about empathy?
- CogSci Colloquium, Department of Psychology, University of Vienna
- Should we be eliminativists about empathy?
- January 2017
- Empathy as a ‘Looping Kind’
- Konrad Lorenz Institute Colloquium, KLI Klosterneuburg
- Empathy as a ‘Looping Kind’
- December 2014
- Empathy, Measurement & Medicine
- Interdisciplinary Network on Sympathy, Empathy, & Imagination Workshop, Oxford
- Empathy, Measurement & Medicine
Refereed Conference Presentations
- October 2020
- Ethics as Practice in Medical Education
- KCL Philosophy in Medical Education Colloquium on Ethics (online)
- Ethics as Practice in Medical Education
- July 2019
- Stability and the Looping Effects of Human Kinds
- ISHPSSB 2019, Oslo, Norway
- BSPS 2019, Durham, UK
- Stability and the Looping Effects of Human Kinds
- July 2017
- What is the place of empathy in a diverse society?
- International Tübingen Symposium on Ethics: The Value of [Not] Being Diverse, Tübingen, Germany
- Looping Patterns by Degree
- Joint Session of the Aristotelian Society and Mind Society, University of Edinburgh
- What is the place of empathy in a diverse society?
- March 2017
- The Empathic Ideal in Modern Medicine
- Doctor, Doctor: Global and Historical Perspectives on the Doctor-Patient Relationship, University of Oxford
- The Empathic Ideal in Modern Medicine
- July 2015
- Can Conceptual Confusion Surrounding Empathy be Resolved?
- Empathy & Interpretation Across the Disciplines, University of Cambridge
- Looping Effects in the Case of Medical Empathy
- International Society for the History, Philosophy, and Social Studies of Biology, Montreal, Canada
- Can Conceptual Confusion Surrounding Empathy be Resolved?
- October 2014
- What is Empathy?
- The Moral Domain: Conceptual Issues in Moral Psychology, Vilnius, Lithuania
- What is Empathy?
- September 2014
- What is Empathy? A genealogical approach
- European Society for Philosophy and Psychology, Noto, Sicily
- What is Empathy? A genealogical approach
- July 2013
- Statistical Learning as a Mechanism
- International Society for the History, Philosophy, and Social Studies of Biology, Montpellier, France
- Statistical Learning as a Mechanism
- May 2009
- Poster: Statistical Learning in Everyday Perception
- Vision Sciences Society, Naples, Florida
- Poster: Statistical Learning in Everyday Perception
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