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<i>Intellectual Empathy</i> provides a step-by-step method for facilitating discussions of socially divisive issues. Maureen Linker, a philosophy professor at the University of Michigan–Dearborn, developed <i>Intellectual Empathy</i> after more than a decade of teaching critical thinking in metropolitan Detroit, one of the most racially and economically divided urban areas, at the crossroads of one of the Midwest’s largest Muslim communities. The skills acquired through <i>Intellectual Empathy</i> have proven to be significant for students who pursue careers in education, social work, law, business, and medicine.<br /><br />Now, Linker shows educators, activists, business managers, community leaders—anyone working toward fruitful dialogues about social differences—how potentially transformative conversations break down and how they can be repaired. Starting from Socrates’s injunction know <i>thyself</i>, Linker explains why interrogating our own beliefs is essential. In contrast to tra