Definition Typology

Project: Create a Empathy Meanings Typology

  • There is a need for a clear and easy to understand Empathy Typology

  • There are many papers, articles etc with definitions, but what is needed is a central location with a typology that is very easy to understand for the general public.,

  • Clear and easy for the general public to be able to access and understand

  • A web based definition. On the web that people can access

  • A word typology framework is needed that goes beyond the dictionary definitions.

  • A framework for defining words and concepts

  • Word meaning change

    • They change over time

    • They are different in different communities and academic fields

    • The same word is used to describe different phenomena

  • Who are People that would be good for this project?

Project

    1. Hold a series of discussions with people knowledgeable about empathy to create a typology

    2. need people that are

      1. experienced with empathy - are clinicians

      2. also good writers.