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Further Important Surveys of Empathy

• Maibom, H. (ed.), 2017. The Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy of Empathy, New York: Routledge. (Scholar)
• Matraver, D., 2017. Empathy, Cambridge: Polity Press. (Scholar)