The Blog of the APA has just published this piece I wrote a month ago about philosophy and polarization! blog.apaonline.org/2025/12/29/p...

Our paper “De-idealizing hate speech: Hate narratives” is now out in Topoi! 📣 @vlc-lab.bsky.social @filolab.bsky.social Carmela and I argue that we must resist an idealized understanding of hate speech in order to reveal more nuanced forms of it Check it out!! link.springer.com/article/10.1...

New paper accepted in Topoi! Carmela Vieites and I argue that there's a risk in the literature of idealizing what hate speech is, and that such idealization must be resisted, especially for detection purposes. Check out the preprint here: www.researchgate.net/publication/...

Acabamos de sacar un libro blanco sobre desacuerdos en contextos digitales, uno de los resultados del proyecto #digi_morals financiado por #fundacionBBVA Resultado de la colaboración entre tres ámbitos: la filosofía, la comunicación y la ciencia política 👇👇🎉🎉📣 e-archivo.uc3m.es/entities/pub...

Congratulations to Adam Lovett, an assistant professor in political theory at SGIA, for being shortlisted for the Royal Institute of Philosophy's book prize in interdisciplinary philosophy! @triphilosophy.bsky.social

🏛️The Nayef Al-Rodhan International Prize in Transdisciplinary Philosophy 2025 award ceremony took place yesterday. 👏We are proud that Manuel Almagro, a member of the VLC Philosophy Lab, was a finalist with his book 'The Rise of Polarization: Affects, Politics, and Philosophy'.

New publication! ✨ Why does the growing everyday use of psychotherapy terms feel both empowering and troubling? Because two practices are at play: mental health-speak, which empowers, and therapy-speak, which distorts. w/ @almagro.bsky.social in @journalphp.bsky.social 🔓 tinyurl.com/24bhx4e9

Back to abusive partners demanding respect for their “boundaries” & abusive bosses recommending mindfulness. I talked with @seiaraimanova.bsky.social about my work w/ @almagro.bsky.social on therapy-speak on her amazing podcast Behind the Stigma🎙️ Check it out! www.buzzsprout.com/1402324/epis...

Great news ‼️ 📘The book 'The Rise of Polarization: Affects, Politics, and Philosophy' (Almagro, 2025) has been shortlisted for the 2025 Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize in Transdisciplinary Philosophy. 👏Congrats, @almagro.bsky.social royalinstitutephilosophy.org/news/shortli...

"The Rise of Polarization: Affects, Politics, and Philosophy" by @almagro.bsky.social (published by @routledgebooks.bsky.social) has been shortlisted for the Nayef Al-Rodhan International Prize in Transdisciplinary #Philosophy 2025. Learn more: royalinstitutephilosophy.org/news/shortli...

New publication! ✨ Remember Jonah Hill asking Sarah Brady to stop modeling to respect his “boundaries”? Or an abusive boss recommending mindfulness after your complaints? @almagro.bsky.social and I are now ready to tell you when and why therapy-speak might be wrong. 🔓Link in reply

Very happy to share that our paper “A Wittgensteinian take on moral vs. deep disagreements” has been accepted for publication in Synthese! @anefcor.bsky.social It will appear in the special issue “Wittgenstein and moral deep disagreements” Preprint: www.researchgate.net/publication/...

✨ PhD position available ✨ @loehrgui.bsky.social and I will be running a research project on disruptive technologies from a niche construction perspective, and we're hiring a PhD candidate! Details 👇 Please circulate the add and tell your students about it 😊 workingat.vu.nl/vacancies/ph...

So excited to see Manuel Almagro Holgado's new book long-listed for the Royal Institute of Philosophy's Nayef Al-Rodhan International Prize in Transdisciplinary Philosophy. Congrats to Manuel and all the other long-listers! royalinstitutephilosophy.org/news/longlis...

Today, we unveil the longlist for the 2025 Nayef Al-Rodhan International Prize in Transdisciplinary Philosophy. Congratulations to all our longlisted authors. 📚🎉 royalinstitutephilosophy.org/news/longlis... #philosophy #bookprize #longlist

Good news! My book has been selected for the longlist of the 2025 Nayef Al-Rodhan International Prize in Transdisciplinary Philosophy! royalinstitutephilosophy.org/news/longlis...

Just published a short piece on Imperfect Cognition (‪@philosophyblogs.bsky.social)‬ based on my new book The Rise of Polarization. Take a look 👇 imperfectcognitions.blogspot.com/2025/08/the-...

New paper accepted! 🎉 Worried about the overuse of terms like “gaslighting”, “boundaries”, or “trauma”? @almagro.bsky.social and I are too. In this paper, we explore the epistemic and ethical cocerns of therapy-speak and how it relates to epistemic and affective injustice. Preprint ⬇️

📣 Coloquio sobre comunicación pública 🗓️ 4 de julio | ⏰ 09:00–13:00 📍 Carmen de la Victoria (Granada) Periodistas, investigadoras y especialistas debatirán sobre los cruces entre ciencia, comunicación y política. Organizan: Elvira González Salmón y Sergio Guerra

🌍 The final programme for the FiloLab 2025 International Summer School — Climate Change, Science Communication, and Public Opinion — is now available! 🗓️ June 30 – July 3 | 📍 Granada, Spain 📄 Download here: t.co/My3vZaxsFm

@almagro.bsky.social and I have been working on therapy-speak lately (e.g., the everyday use of psychotherapy terms like OCD, trauma, boundaries...). Check out the video if you're curious. 📽️

🐸Christophe Heintz (Central European University): Diverse Pathways to Satisfying Informative Intentions #WorkshoponAnimalCommunication

Happening today! Really great talks so far!!

🐸 We're excited to announce our upcoming workshop on Animal Communication 📅Save the date... see you in Valencia! 🔗: decrep.blogs.uv.es/workshop-ani...

Publication day! www.amazon.com/Truth-Politi...

Brilliant piece by Dan Williams: What if the truth about AI is more boring than we'd like? open.substack.com/pub/conspicu...

Just received the print copies of my book... Not bad!! 🫰🏽

No dejen de leer este excelente y revelador artículo de mis compañeros de @filolab.bsky.social, @anefcor.bsky.social y @almagro.bsky.social en ‪‪@ctxt.es‬ Va sobre #polarización y presunta irracionalidad.

@almagro.bsky.social y yo escribimos en @ctxt.es sobre una de las premisas del argumento de J D Vance. Cómo pasar de la libertad de expresión a la defensa del poder irrestricto de la oligarquía

FIRMAS|DEBATE 🗣️ ‼️ La polarización de la opinión pública es un fenómeno social y no individual y está fomentada por estrategias discursivas diseñadas para dividir a la población. 📝 Firman @anefcor.bsky.social y @almagro.bsky.social ctxt.es/es/20250301/...

"La idea de que las personas polarizadas no han perdido la capacidad de pensar con normalidad es compatible con que la polarización está fomentada por estrategias discursivas diseñadas para dividir a la población". ✍️ Escriben Manuel Almagro y Neftalí Villanueva. ctxt.es/es/20250301/...

Here we go! The Call for Papers for the XI Congress of the Spanish Society for Analytic Philosophy is now open! Check the details at sefaweb.es/sefa2025/. Deadline: April 15!

🎯Uriah Kriegel (Rice University): 'Conscious Intentionality: What Vision and Mood Teach Us'

Now available for pre-order worldwide: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

It was fantastic writing a post for the amazing blog Open for Debate. Hope you enjoy It!

Our paper “Against the Neutral View of Poisoning the Well” is now published in Argumentation! Full-text access to a view-only version here: rdcu.be/d2uwG

Our first in-person workshop on “Varieties of Misinformation” is coming up. Check the program out and join us if you are around!

De camino a Valladolid para este fabuloso workshop sobre intencionalidad y para conocer por fin la famosa taberna Wittgenstein. Expectativas altas...