Absolutely amazing, despite the variety of authors feeling like a rollercoaster...
I really, really loved some chapters, which I found insightful and even life-changing:
1 - Understanding Empathy: Its Features and Effects (Coplan)
5 - Empathy, Imitation, and the Social Brain (Decety and Meltzoff)
14 - Empathy, Justicen, and the Law (Hoffman)
18 - Empathy for the Devil (Morton)
Others were pretty good:
4 - Within Each Other: Neural Mechanisms for Empathy in the Primate Brain (Iacoboni)
7 - Empathy, Expansionism, and the Extended Mind (Smith)
15 - Empathy and Trauma Culture: Imaging Catastrophe (Kaplan)
16 - Is Empathy a Virtue? (Battaly)
Others were so so.
And then a few, I particularly disliked, either because of weak scholarship, absurd unsubstantiated claims, or terrible readability:
2 - Empathy as a Route to Knowledge (Matravers)
8 - An Empathic Eye (Lopes)
9 - Infectious Music: Music-Listener Emotional Contagion (Davies)
11 - On Some Affective Relations between Audiences and the Characters (Carroll)
And special mention to the worst academic garbage I've ever read in my life, by FAR:
13 - Is Empathy Necessary for Morality? (Prinz)
In summary, the book is quite a journey, and due to the good chapters I highly recommend it.