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• Narrative versus Neuroscientism

  By Lou Agosta on April 30, 2019

  

  Review: Alex Rosenberg’s How History Gets Things Wrong: The Neuroscience of Our Addiction to Stories(The MIT Press, 289 pp., $27.95US). Henry Ford said: “History is bunk.” The privileged, the victors, those with an ax to grind, and those with the… Read More ›

• Three books on empathy: The good, the bad, and the ugly

  By Lou Agosta on April 20, 2019 • ( 1 )

  

  The first empathy book reviewed here is very good indeed. William Miller’s Listening Well: The Art of Empathic Understanding  (Wipf and Stock, 114pp, ($18US)) is a short book. Admirably concise. My short review is that, as I am author of… Read More ›

• A Critical Review of a Philosophy of Empathy

  By Lou Agosta on April 6, 2019

  

  You don’t need a philosopher to tell you what empathy is; you need a philosopher to help you distinguish the hype and the over-intellectualization from a rigorous and critical empathy. Every parent, teacher, health care worker, business person with customers,… Read More ›

• Poverty is bad for your health: Review of Ansell’s The Death Gap

  By Lou Agosta on March 31, 2019

  

  Poverty is bad for your health.  Inequality causes poverty. In turn, poverty causes illness and death. Therefore, inequality kills. The evidence is extensive. The data is compelling. The logic is impeccable. But is this not just correlation, not causation? A… Read More ›

• REVIEW: Understanding the Borderline Mother by Christine Lawson

  By Lou Agosta on March 30, 2019

  

  I am catching up on my reading. Christine Ann Lawson’s Understanding the Borderline Mother is a classic in its field, with a whopping 396 Amazon reviews (Q1 2019), enjoying a rating of 4.7 out of 5.0. Impressive. (See the bottom of this review… Read More ›

• Return to Wittgenstein’s Vienna – not your ordinary travelogue

  By Lou Agosta on March 3, 2019

  

  Return to Wittgenstein’s Vienna – not your ordinary travelogue [Thursday evening 6 – 8:30 pm April 04 – May 23 2019 450 Citfyront Center 60611] Click here to register:  Register [http://tinyurl.com/y3wjdp9s  This course is about a man, a book, a city,… Read More ›

• Review: Empathy in the Age of Surveillance Capitalism

  By Lou Agosta on February 10, 2019 • ( 1 )

  

  Shoshana Zuboff’s The Age of Surveillance Capitalism is a page-tuner, highly engaging, but also deeply disturbing. Surveillance capitalism and its two major practitioners, Google [Alphabet] and Facebook, are unprecedented developments. Personally, I have been struggling to get my head around trends… Read More ›

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