Check out the latest episode of The Philosophy of Emotion Podcast! @lopezcantero.bsky.social Lopez-Cantero talks about romantic love. substack.com/home/post/p-...

This week's post is by Alexander Edlich (LMU Munich), and Alfred Archer (University of Tilburg) presenting their paper 'Rejecting Identities: Stigma and Hermeneutical Injustice' published in Social Epistemology. #philsky #philpsy imperfectcognitions....

Finally out! TLDR: People don't feel shit cause they believe wild conspiracy theories, they believe CTs cause they feel shit. CT beliefs are often confabulations explaining their existential predicament. I drew on LOTS empirical stuff to try & make this defeasible: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Carme Isern @isernmas.bsky.social , professora de la @uib.cat i guanyadora d'una beca de bioètica, acaba de publicar un nou article sobre la seva recerca. Enhorabona!  https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12152-025-09625-1

Totally unexpected but apparently my book Playing Possum has won the Austrian Science Book of the Year award for the category of natural sciences. ✨✨✨ Beyond thrilled and delighted at the excuse to return to my beloved Vienna for the ceremony!

FILÓSOFAS EN STREAMING 2026 Ya está disponible el programa de la 7º edición de Filósofas en Streaming, una actividad de SWIP-Analytic en colaboración con la Sección de Filosofía de la ULL. Toda la info en nuestra página web: wpd.ugr.es/~swipa/wordp...

New publication!✨ When are psychiatric patients considered less credible? When compared to non-patients, particularly by people who do not view epistemic injustice as a serious moral problem. w/ @ivarr.bsky.social 🔓 rdcu.be/e2zqU

Why does everyday psychotherapy language feel both empowering and troubling? TLDR: Because two practices are at play: mental health-speak, which empowers, and therapy-speak, which distorts. A summary of our paper (w/ @almagro.bsky.social) in the great Imperfect Cognitions blog. 🙌

New paper in Law and Philosophy, open access: link.springer.com/article/10.1... special thank you to @xphilosopher.bsky.social for super helpful comments on drafts! A 🧵 1/6

I’m sharing an interview I recently did for the APA blog. @vlc-lab.bsky.social @filolab.bsky.social Check it out! blog.apaonline.org/2026/01/23/r...

Por cierto, he escrito un libro para el CIS de Sociología Experimental. Si os interesa adentraros en el mundo de la experimentación con un enfoque muy aplicado, es vuestro libro. Teoría, ejemplos didácticos, explicaciones sin muchos rollos. www.cis.es/es/w/sociolo...

Filosofía en español: Hoy escribo sobre chatbots post-ruptura en El Salto.

Call for papers open for a thematic workshop on phil of emotion at @uniofnottingham.bsky.social — deadline is next week! More details: philevents.org/event/show/1...

Now available as a preprint: this paper about judging people (morally) for ...feeling emotions (!)👇 www.researchgate.net/publication/... Follow @isernmas.bsky.social, @joannad-c.bsky.social, and Ivar Hannikainen (www.researchgate.net/profile/Ivar...) for more.

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 👇👇

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...

My paper on break-up chatbots came out today, just in time for you to bring it up as a debate topic at the Christmas dinner table. A podcast on this will come out after the holidays too. Article free to read below ⬇️

🎉 Pamela Barone and I got our first national PROJECT as co-PIs to research JEALOUSY, combining dev psych, ethics, and x-phi, with an amazing women-led team. And just 10 years after starting our PhDs together (see pic)! 🥹 w/ Gomila, Fernández, Barbato, @joannad-c.bsky.social & Schaubroeck

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...

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📢 Se ofertan 29 contratos predoctorales concedidos a @universidadgranada.bsky.social, uno de ellos para trabajar con nosotrxs en el proyecto PID2024 sobre inferencias de estados mentales en el dominio moral! ⏳ Plazo de presentación: 18/12/25 🔗 investigacion.ugr.es/recursos-hum...

🎓Contrato FPI disponible para hacer una tesis doctoral en bioética y final de la vida en @filolab.bsky.social 📣 ¡Difusión, por favor! ℹ️ Enlace a la página de la convocatoria: investigacion.ugr.es/recursos-hum...

Do we become afraid because we are aware of danger? Or do we become aware of danger because we are afraid? In our new paper, Christine Tappolet and I argue against the reactive view of fear. Summary below: (1/5) philarchive.org/rec/DAZRFF

New episode (1182), with Dr. Dries Bostyn. We talk about how people respond to trolley dilemmas. #Psychology #ethics #Science YouTube: youtu.be/zw_Uzmq83hA Podcast: tinyurl.com/4srd95ry

Really enjoyed talking with Professor Edouard Machery on Behind the Stigma about experimental philosophy, moral intuitions, and whether morality is universal. His insights (and humor) made this such a fun one! Listen here:🎙️ www.buzzsprout.com/1402324/epis...

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/...

Been thinking a bit recently about the ethics of suicide prevention and our general overconfidence in our ability to predict and prevent it in ways that benefit its targets. Here's a sample of my latest thinking from the APA blog blog.apaonline.org/2025/11/21/f... @apaphilosophy.bsky.social

Ah!! So thrilled for this. The past winner list is chock-full of folks I've looked up to for years and been personally inspired by including Melissa Ferguson, Larisa Heiphetz @drlarisa.bsky.social, and gendered cognition giants Kristina Olson, Ashley Martin

Philosophers on The Australian's Top Researchers List...

🎉Thrilled that @luciagarzon.bsky.social won First Prize at the Certamen Arquímedes (cienciagob.bsky.social) for the best undergraduate-led research in the Social Sciences & Humanities category! A truly well-deserved recognition of her research on the folk concept of consent. Congrats, Lucía!🌟

New paper! Its main idea is simple but overlooked: rumination isn’t just persistent negative thinking. It can also involve losing the ability to stop inner speech. This explains why rumination feels overwhelming and why practices cultivating inner silence make a difference. doi.org/10.1080/0020...

"core claims concern, for ex., [...] the nature of the identity prejudices that clinicians are said to harbor toward the patients they treat. We could not identify any empirical study examining or supporting these claims." hope the xphi paper @ivarr.bsky.social and I have under review can help.🤞

4-Year Funded PhD Position at the University of the Balearic Islands (UIB) – Spain Os reenviamos información sobre una oferta de posición predoctoral en la Universidad de las Islas Baleares (UIB). La Junta Directiva de la SEPEX ***** Síguenos en ***** Bluesky: [@sepex.bsky.social] LinkedIn: X:…

You've probably heard of deathbots, but did you know about break-up bots? It's possible to create a digital duplicates of an ex and chat to them as if they never left in the 1st place. In my forthcoming paper in Phenom & the Cog Sciences, I discuss 3 factors against continuing bonds w ex-bots/1

📗 My book Genetic Enhancement and Technomoral Change is out! 🧬 🚀Over the moon to see this work published at @routledgebooks.bsky.social after so many years in the making. 💪🦾 It's my most ambitious philosophical proposal to date. 🤩 Link to the official webpage 👇 www.routledge.com/Genetic-Enha...

🚨Job Alert! FPI PhD position (philosophy or psychology) in our project "Jealousy Beyond Romantic Relationships: an Interdisciplinary Investigation" Deadline: November 13. More info at: seu.uib.cat/es/tablon?pa... happy to answer questions by email!

New publication! ✨ A new psychometric scale to measure fears related to generative AI. Hopefully useful for researchers, or anyone, studying AI psychology. 😇

Tomorrow! Thursday 30th, at 10:00 PDT / 18:00 CET "Philosophical arguments can boost charitable giving" by Kristan Brodie and @eschwitz.bsky.social. First talk of the @xphijournal.bsky.social series, organized by @alexwiegmann.bsky.social and Celso Vieira. philevents.org/event/show/1...

🏛️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'.

⚖️ 2025 Legal Interpretation and Moral Reasoning Workshop 📍Carmen de la Victoria | 🗓️Nov 5-7 Leading researchers in philosophy, law, and cognitive science explore how moral reasoning shapes legal interpretation Organized by the Moral Science Lab 👉 Full program & details: mscilab.com/workshop

New paper online now: “Consigning Injustice of History with Political Apologies” (by me and @alfredarcher.bsky.social). onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

🙂 Yesterday, our colleague Manuel Almagro presented his his talk "Public Opinion Polarization and Resistance" at the METIS Seminar (UNED).

I'm happy that this paper co-authored with Vilius Dranseika has finally been published. Case for Pluralism in Death Determination: From Empirical Data to a Policy Proposal url: academic.oup.com/jmp/article-...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Jd3... @oxmedhum.bsky.social @torchoxford.bsky.social

Today on the #projectEPIC blog Sally Latham considers the costs and benefits of narrativism for mental health: epistemicinjusticeinhealthcareproject.blogspot.com/2025/10/epis... #epistemicinjustice #philpsy #philsky

I am pleased to reveal what the main sources of insight and inspiration for my present and future work has been: children’s stories. Here’s one thought I had about Mog, which also features in a book I’ve been working on for a while. substack.com/home/post/p-...

New paper in Synthèse. Open access.

Pasé un buen rato en la Semana de la IA en la Biblioteca de Navarra el martes pasado. Los colegas de la Cátedra Tracasa de Ciencias de la Computación e Inteligencia Artificial de la UPNA han colgado ya el vídeo sobre la mesa redonda: "Decisiones delegadas a la IA" 📹 www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_Oq...

In the latest episode of @ethicsuntangled.bsky.social , Jim speaks to Alfred Archer (Tilburg University) & Georgie Mills (TU Delft) about cancel culture.