✨💖✨ Romantic love? What is that? Listen to the latest episode of The Philosophy of Emotion Podcast to find out what @lopezcantero.bsky.social has to say!

Very pleased this 3 book review is now published: passion-journal.org/article/view...

Ah ouais, les barrières sont tombées.

Check out the new episode of our podcast 😃

People often complain that philosophy doesn't generate knowledge like the sciences. Sometimes you even here this from philosophers! They point to the interminable debates in philosophy (like utilitarianism vs deontology) as evidence for this claim. This is wrong, however.

Latest from the lab: our theory of how paranoia can be about social things, without dedicated social processing @juliasheffield.bsky.social, Santiago Castiello, Rosa Rossi-Goldthorpe, @praveensuthaharan.bsky.social and @celiaheyes.bsky.social nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...

We’re excited to share the latest episode of the Philosophy of Emotion Podcast! 🎙️💭💗 @alfredarcher.bsky.social joins @benjaminmatheson.bsky.social to discuss affective artifacts and affective injustice.

We're very happy to release Ep. 2 of the Philosophy of Emotion podcast! @kkthomason.bsky.social on shame and negative emotions 🫣, interviewed by @benjaminmatheson.bsky.social Hope you enjoy it! open.substack.com/pub/thecogsp...

We’re excited to have Teresa Marques (University of Barcelona) joining us today for an internal KiC talk. She will present her recent publication: "The Defectiveness of Propaganda", co-authored with Constant Bonard and Filippo Contesi.

Free access! Jacob Berger reviews "The Epistemic Role of #Consciousness" (OUP) by Declan Smithies doi.org/10.1080/0951...#Consciousness"#vol38issue4 #philsky #booksky

Chouette, un article pas catastrophiste sur le sujet. Mais un peu trop optimiste ? N’explique pas les recommandations « de bon sens » citées à la toute fin, comme : pas de réseaux sociaux avant 15 ans, pas d’écran avant 3 ans, pas de smartphone avant 11 ans. Aurais apprécié :)

The first episode of the philosophy of emotion podcast is available now! Episode 1: David Shoemaker on Amusement open.substack.com/pub/thecogsp...

What’s missing for today’s AI to be like 𝐻𝑒𝑟’s Samantha? Could AI ever fall in love with us—not just the other way around? Super glad to have been invited to talk about such questions at the film festival "Rencontres du 7e Art" to introduce Spike Jonze's 2013 visionary movie. Photo by Alizée Quinche

🎧 Ben Matheson and I are launching this new podcast series. Stay tuned!

An emotional day - I can announce I'll be the first director of The Jeremy Coller Centre for Animal Sentience at the LSE, supported by a £4m grant from the Jeremy Coller Foundation. Our mission: to develop better policies, laws and ways of caring for animals. (1/2) www.lse.ac.uk/News/Latest-...

Extreme stances about AI and LLMs in particular (be them deflationary or inflationary) are very likely wrong, valid and certainly not good for an healthy debate. But where do they come from? We (with @giadapistilli.com) argue that common cognitive biases may play a role: osf.io/preprints/ps...

For my Paris friends interested in AI: I definitely recommend going to this event and following the AI-Phi group 🤖

Another cool contribution to what I call the « mental-behavioral methodology » for studying AI psychology. Kudos 🦾🤖

Can AI truly understand our emotional expressions? Super glad to have explored this question as an invited alumnus for the Swiss Center for Affective Sciences’ 20th anniversary 🎂 It was a great event! www.unige.ch/cisa/events/... Happy to share the manuscript if you’re interested 🤖

Very happy to be among these 28 others 😃

When and why are motivational trade-offs evidence of sentience? New paper with @birchlse.bsky.social forthcoming at Phil. Trans. Roy. Soc. B and available to download for free here: philpapers.org/rec/BROWAW-10 (1/11)

Totally agree with this! I highlight such "justaic" problems in this paper published last year and discuss in some detail the mental-behavioral alternative: philpapers.org/rec/BONCAA-3

Out in @naturehumbehav.bsky.social Can people tell true from false news? Yes! Our meta-analysis shows that people rate true news as more accurate than false news (d = 1.12) and were better at spotting false news than at recognizing true news (d = 0.32). www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I think this is worth a reminder for those who missed it 😃

"Emotion in Nonverbal Communication", or: When is an alarm call like an emoji? 🙃 Review from @thibaudgruber.bsky.social @ebriefer.bsky.social et al. #prattle 💬 #bioacoustics journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Between 2019 and 2023, researchers paid $8.968 billion to make papers open access. Imagine what else could be done with this money if it wasnt paid to for profit publishing companies... 👉 arxiv.org/abs/2407.16551

Happy Valentine's Day, philosofriends...

Dernière étape: correction des épreuves!

« - Il y a une submersion migratoire. - les faits : c’est faux. - oui, mais les Français ont un sentiment de submersion migratoire. - les faits : c’est faux. - oui, mais il y a un sentiment que les Français ont un sentiment de  submersion migratoire. » Les scientifiques : 🤯🤯🤯.

"Should we value compassion, equality, and relieving suffering as much as we do? Should power, creativity, and magnificence always be secondary? These are searching, uncomfortable questions."

Open access until 27 February www.cambridge.org/core/element...

Reminder: call for abstracts 👇🏻

My new book, Rethinking Metaphysics, is coming out this spring (February electronically, April in paper). I was thrilled that the Lichtenstein foundation gave me permission to use this as a cover. The different functions of the brushstrokes are the perfect illustration of the themes of the book.

"Hey, you there! Do I look like a nazi?" www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvgZ...

In this new preprint @smfleming.bsky.social and I present a new theory of the functions and evolution of conscious vision. This is a big project: osf.io/preprints/ps.... We'd love to get your comments!

What can a #LargeLanguageModel reveal about Fodorian modularity? Some argue current #LLMs vindicate associationism/connectionism (contrary to Fodor/modularity): doi.org/10.3389/fpsy... Why? Associative LLMs do what Fodor thought associations couldn't. #PhilMind #CogSci #Psych

How important are collective emotions for societal movements and social groups? I organize a workshop on this question. It'll take place in Bern in July. Here is the Call for Abstract. Don't hesitate to share it! docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Great talk by an amazing scholar! It illustrates how LLMs can be tools to study fascinating and deep linguistic topics, such as the poverty of stimulus argument and the symbolism vs connectionism debate.

J'ai commencé un kit de démarrage "philo argumentative/analytique en français" ! J'ai déjà mis quelques profils qui me venaient en tête, mais j'en ajouterai au fur et à mesure, n'hésitez pas à proposer des noms. go.bsky.app/DT6c6Cg

Avez-vous lu l'excellent livre de @samlepine.bsky.social sur la nature des émotions ? Dans cette longue recension (10'000 mots !) pour "Les ateliers de l'éthique", j'en fais un résumé mais surtout je discute des points qui me semblent mériter une plus grande attention (philpapers.org/rec/BONLND-6).

Excellent interview of @neddo.bsky.social (www.youtube.com/watch?v=wM1f...)

"A study of federally funded research projects in the United States estimated that principal investigators spend on average about 45% of their time on administrative activities related to applying for and managing projects rather than conducting active research" www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

If you're into emotions, don't miss this podcast where Andrea Scarantino discusses his amazing, monumental, and extremely helpful work as the editor of the seminal "Emotion Theory", the 62-chapter new bible for the field, featuring 101 top emotion scholars newbooksnetwork.com/the-routledg...

It was a real privilege to interview Daniel Dennett about his five favourite books for @five_books fivebooks.com/best-books/d...

My book has a website! global.oup.com/academic/pro...

Our most read article in 2024 is on linguistic discrimination, authored by Anna Drożdżowicz and Yael Peled. Read it here open access: doi.org/10.1080/0951... #philsky

"Ants solving a geometric problem and it's amazing." This is a great example of 'emergent phenomenon': - None of the ants understand the problem they're solving. - None of them can see the whole shape. - A series of small decisions or rules add up to something with a new layer of complexity.

Excellente vidéo sur les controverses de Notre Dame

Is it inconceivable that there is more to pride than we usually think there is? Pride and Investment by Jessica Isserow at doi.org/10.1086/732619 #philsky #PolTheory #legalphil #moralphil #moralphilosophy #legalphilosophy