{"id":575,"date":"2017-02-05T01:21:44","date_gmt":"2017-02-05T01:21:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/philosophy\/?p=575"},"modified":"2017-02-23T11:04:45","modified_gmt":"2017-02-23T11:04:45","slug":"derek-matraverss-new-book-is-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/philosophy\/?p=575","title":{"rendered":"Derek Matravers&#8217;s new book is out!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All you need to know about empathy can be found in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/people\/dcm4\" target=\"_blank\" >Derek Matravers<\/a>&#8216;s new book \u2014 entitled, appropriately enough, <em>Empathy <\/em>(Polity, 2017). Heather Battally (of Cal State, Fullerton) describes it as &#8216;A terrific introduction to the concept of empathy&#8217;. Karsten Stueber (who wrote an excellent book on the subject, called <em>Rediscovering Empathy<\/em>) describes it as &#8216;very enjoyable, highly nuanced, and historically astute&#8230;a first rate introduction.&#8217; Further information, including a table of contents are available\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/eu.wiley.com\/WileyCDA\/WileyTitle\/productCd-074567075X.html\" target=\"_blank\" onclick=\"javascript:urchinTracker ('\/outbound\/article\/eu.wiley.com');\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_590\" style=\"width: 399px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/philosophy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Screenshot-2017-02-23-10.03.39.png\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-590\" class=\"size-full wp-image-590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/philosophy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Screenshot-2017-02-23-10.03.39.png\" alt=\"Derek Matravers's Empathy (Polity 2017)\" width=\"389\" height=\"591\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/philosophy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Screenshot-2017-02-23-10.03.39.png 389w, https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/philosophy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Screenshot-2017-02-23-10.03.39-197x300.png 197w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 389px) 100vw, 389px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-590\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Derek Matravers&#8217;s Empathy (Polity 2017)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The book is out in the same series as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/people\/csp6\" target=\"_blank\" >Carolyn Price<\/a>&#8216;s excellent book, <a href=\"http:\/\/eu.wiley.com\/WileyCDA\/WileyTitle\/productCd-0745656366.html\" target=\"_blank\" onclick=\"javascript:urchinTracker ('\/outbound\/article\/eu.wiley.com');\"><em>Emotion<\/em><\/a>, which was published by Polity in 2015.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All you need to know about empathy can be found in Derek Matravers&#8216;s new book \u2014 entitled, appropriately enough, Empathy (Polity, 2017). Heather Battally (of Cal State, Fullerton) describes it as &#8216;A terrific introduction to the concept of empathy&#8217;. Karsten Stueber (who wrote an excellent book on the subject, called Rediscovering Empathy) describes it as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-events-publications"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/philosophy\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/philosophy\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/philosophy\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/philosophy\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/philosophy\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=575"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/philosophy\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":592,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/philosophy\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575\/revisions\/592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/philosophy\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/philosophy\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/philosophy\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}