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LIT-1729: Empirical Approaches to Altruism

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StatusActive — read in full 2026-10-29 (NOTE-1274), in place of LIT-1700 and LIT-1728, which could not be reached; worth reading as the shortest neutral account of the 1997 merging exchange the record holds: it quotes both papers' measures, and it argues that a merging criterion must be one of numerical identity to matter for egoism. It does not report the 1997 results in numbers.
Tagsaltruism, moral-psychology, self
Cited as “grounds” byCLAIM-494 — Empathic concern for another produces motivation whose ultimate goal is the other's welfare, and it does so when perceived self–other merging is controlled, so not all helping is concern for an extended self
Cited as “paper” byNOTE-1274 — Empirical Approaches to Altruism

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Doris, J., Stich, S., Walmsley, L. & Schulz, A. (2025). In E. N. Zalta (Ed.), The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. First published 6 January 2020; substantive revision 31 March 2025.

Read in full in NOTE-1274.

Why this is here

Read in place of LIT-1700 and LIT-1728, which could not be reached. NOTE-1274 says what it reports of them and what is still missing.

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