New paper accepted!🎉 Is Taylor Swift responsible for how she makes her fans feel? Yes; the notion of affective power (the ability to influence how others feel) can help identify the responsibilities celebrities have towards their fans. w/ G.Mills & @alfredarcher.bsky.social Preprint ⬇️

I am advertising two PhD positions in philosophy -- one for a domestic student, one for an international student. Both positions are 1 + 3 years, meaning that the first year is an MRes and the next three years are for the PhD. www.mq.edu.au/research/phd...

Experimental philosophy paper by Pascale Willemsen et al. on on what it means for something to be "discrimination" The studies focus specifically on discrimination -- but I think they also showing something more general about how thick concepts work philpapers.org/archive/WILD...

The new journal "Experimental Philosophy" is now on BlueSky. @xphijournal.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/xphi... Please share!

What People Think Self-Deception Is and Why Philosophers Should Care A summary of our x-phi paper (w/ @ivarr.bsky.social ) in the terrific Imperfect Cognitions blog. 🙌

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/...

📖🎉Excited to share that the book chapter “It Doesn't Feel Like Myself: A Mindshaping View on Self-Illness Ambiguity” (Virginia Ballesteros, Fernández-Castro & Núñez de Prado-Gordillo) has been accepted for publication with Routledge! 🔗Pre-print: roderic.uv.es/rest/api/cor...

We're super pleased to welcome @isernmas.bsky.social back to the UOI, who is visiting us from the University of the Balearic Islands, where Carme is an Assistant Professor in #MoralPhilosophy We hope you have a great time in Oxford, Carme! #ethics #practicalethics

New publication! ✨ Should we mourn morally flawed celebrities? We argue that public mourning risks reinforcing testimonial and affective injustice and normalizing wrongdoing –and discuss how to mourn without causing these harms. w/ K. Schaubroeck & @alfredarcher.bsky.social 🔓 shorturl.at/Z3LXN

@benjaminmatheson.bsky.social and I are organising a workshop and special issue of the Journal of Ethics on the Ethics of Fandom. Call for abstracts here: link.springer.com/collections/... Some great speakers already confirmed: @ajkadlac.bsky.social , Erin Tarver and Kamila Pacovská #philsky

Final call for global collaborators on this replication collaboration on @bioxphi studies — moral psychologists and x-phi researchers wanted! especially based in SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE! global-bioXphi | moral science lab www.mscilab.com/globalbioxphi/

¡Nueva publicación! ¿Puede el asco hacer modular cómo juzgamos situaciones morales [sí]?¿Interactúa con la edad de la persona que juzgamos [no exactamente] ? Este estudio es preregistrado, reproducible, datos abiertos, etc doi.org/10.1371/jour...

Latest papers: Somogy Varga, Andrew J. Latham & Edouard Machery investigate the influence of evaluative judgments, specifically regarding an individual’s moral character, on judgments of health and disease in this open access paper doi.org/10.1080/0951... #philsky #philpsy

My first paper on urban justice is out. It draws an analogy between gentrification and mass incoming migration, and shows that neighbourhoods receiving large numbers of needy migrants are treated unfairly, even if hosting needy migrants IS a requirement of justice/1

First publication out! It questions whether people who report loss of community due to gentrification and migration should both be treated as victims of injustice. My view is that we should, although injustice has different grounds in the latter case: the unjust distribution of affective burdens.

Today, we welcome Themistoklis Pantazakos, Assistant Professor of Psychology and Philosophy at the American College of Greece, to present his recent BJPsych editorial 'Biomarkers cannot define the boundary between the normal and the pathological'. #philsky #philpsy

New experimental conceptual engineering paper! Does the name you give to novel ideas affect people's understanding of those ideas? Yes, but only certain kinds of names and less so when the idea is explicitly defined. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #xphi #philsky

Very excited to announce the first VALENCE ASYMMETRIES conference, March 19th-20th 2026, at the Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona, the first major event in my Valence Asymmetries ERC Advanced Grant (GA n° 101142133). Deadline for submissions: 30 September. philevents.org/event/show/1...

Really honoured to see Alan, my and Bart's book longlisted for this alongside some really excellent books #philsky

In June, Kathleen Murphy-Hollies hosted a workshop on conspiracy theory and story telling at the University of Birmingham, featuring five exciting academics working on the topic. Today's post presents a brief summary of each of their talks. #philsky #philpsy

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...

Our paper on 🌱🦧ANIMAL MEDICINE🐜🍄 has been accepted for publication in Philosophy of Science! You can find the accepted version here, open access: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

This week, we're happy to have Manuel Almagro, from the University of Valencia, presenting his new book: The Rise of Polarization (Routledge 2025). Exploring how affective polarization in politics exploits ordinary belief-forming mechanisms. #philsky #philpsy imperfectcognitions....

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-...

Happy to share that my first book, Genetic Enhancement and Technomoral Change, is COMING SOON! 📗🧬 Available for pre-order on October 22, 2025. 🔜Expected publication: November 12, 2025 by Routledge. www.routledge.com/Genetic-Enha...

New on the #projectEPIC blog today is a post from Virginia Ballesteros, summarising her recent paper "Objectivity, Standardization, and Epistemic Injustice in Psychiatry". It's an excellent read - you should check it out! epistemicinjusticeinhealthcareproject.blogspot.com/2025/07/obje...

#TesiUIB | 🤔 Influeix la universitat en el pensament crític dels joves? La #TesiDoctoral d'Hugo Matas revela que gairebé la meitat dels universitaris manté creences paranormals, com la fe en l’astrologia, els amulets o els efectes de la lluna sobre el comportament. 🔗 diari.uib.cat/Hemeroteca/G...

🎓 The 2024–25 academic year has been a period of growth and consolidation for the VlC Philosophy LAB. Here's an overview of the key highlights of our academic activity and relevant information👇 🙃A RT is always appreciated!

Joanna Demaree Cotton presenting fascinating x-phi work on people’s judgements about the wishes of the dead (eg is it possible to wrong or harm a deceased person)

Nou podcast. 🎉 En aquest episodi, les Persianes filosofem sobre... ENVEJA. 👀💚

🧵This week I'm posting about presentations from two cool events (over on Twitter): x.com/byrd_nick/stat... What are the events? (1) The 1st Experimental Argument Analysis workshop (2) The 5th European #ExperimentalPhilosophy #Conference #cogSci #xPhi #Linguistics #Psychology #Logic #edu #teaching

Also pleased to report that my paper 'Are Conspiracy Theorists Confabulating?' is now forthcoming in Review of Philosophy and Psychology. I tried it hard to make it a sensible proposal that the consumers of CTs often are, and it explains some of the odd features of belief in conspiracy theories 🤓

Good afternoon, Phenomenologists! ☀️ We're on our way to adding more content about our network to the new website: birminghamphenomenalnetwork.blogspot.com In the meantime, we would like to share with you some some more information about us, starting with a weekly series on our network members.

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 ⬇️

Máster Universitario en Cognición y Sociedad – Universitat de les Illes Balears (UIB) Os reenviamos información sobre el Máster Universitario en Cognición y Sociedad, de la Universitat de les Illes Balears (UIB). La Junta Directiva de la SEPEX ***** Síguenos en ***** Bluesky: [@sepex.bsky.social]…

🗞️Great news! 👉The paper “Unmasking therapy-speak” by Carme Isern Mas and Manuel Almagro has just been accepted for publication in Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics. 🙌 Congratulations, @isernmas.bsky.social and @almagro.bsky.social! 🔗Here’s a pre-print: www.researchgate.net/publication/...

New paper of mine looks at how moral exemplars can influence our idea of who is a member of the moral community and the implications of this for the use of exemplars in moral education. Available open access here: link.springer.com/article/10.1... #philsky

What if your best friend was an #AI? What about your favorite teacher or long-term romantic partner? What would that be like? I had a great time giving a talk on the 'Ethics of Human-AI Relationships' as part of Bitesize Ethics 2025 (@uehiro.ox.ac.uk). 📺 Full talk here: shorturl.at/WbUOs

Nou podcast. 🎉 En aquest episodi, les Persianes filosofem sobre... AMISTAT. 🫂

How do male- and female-authored papers differ in #Bioethics and #Philosophy of #Medicine? A #gender classifier, #openData, and #stats made for interesting plots, questions, and discussion! Follow Vilius Dranseika on www.researchgate.net/profile/Vili... #corpusLinguistics #textMining #metascience

Does #addiction excuse one from blame? Maria Fernanda Rangel et al found it didn't. - For non-addicts, control and responsibility attribution tracked each other. - For addicts, they didn't. Find Maria on @researchgate.bsky.social for updates: www.researchgate.net/profile/Mari... #xPhi #psychiatry

After lunch, @neeleengelmann.bsky.social addressed why delegation to #AI may encourage #cheating: Factors - Transparency of how much unearned gain an [AI] delegate produces for the user and how it achieves this - Framing: whether dishonest actions are explicitly labeled as such - Their interaction?

Dr. Carme @isernmas.bsky.social et al. found people *morally* judged others for FEELING #emotion, moreso for showing it! Faisal Feroz et al. found the acceptability of data storage depended on whether data was private, but not on the #consciousness of the #AI storage system. #xPhi #ethics #ELSI

What can we learn about people's #MoralCircle using dilemmas about who to save? Daniel Martin et al. showed really nice plots of reaction times, similarity scores, and choice changes. Follow Daniel via @researchgate.bsky.social: www.researchgate.net/profile/Dani... #bioethics #appliedEthics #xPhi

📊 🇨🇭 🧵 Today and tomorrow, I'm posting about the talks and posters from the 2025 BioXPhi Summit in #Switzerland. Follow along! The #conference website: ibmb.unibas.ch/en/public-ou... The program: ibmb.unibas.ch/fileadmin/us... #bioethics #xPhi #medicine #healthcare #policy #cogSci #psychology #AI

🚨 Still time to register and join the conference online! Join us online this Thursday–Friday (June 26–27) for the Basel-Oxford-NUS Experimental Philosophical Bioethics (BioXPhi) Summit 2025. 🔗 Program & online registration:

@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. 📽️

Our symposium on Christine Tappolet’s “Philosophy of Emotion: A Contemporary Introduction,” co-edited with Melissa Hernández-Parra, is now out in The Ethics Forum‬ @lecre.bsky.social!

Nou podcast. 🎉 En aquest episodi, les Persianes filosofem sobre... NOSTÀLGIA. 🕰️

You might have heard that psychology has a WEIRD problem. Though it aims to understand human minds, many of its studies have historically been skewed towards WEIRD minds. In this 🚨NEW PAPER🚨, @kristinandrews.bsky.social and I argue that comparative cognition also has a WEIRD problem. 👇🧵 1/17