Just accepted: my Phil Compass article on affective injustice! It synthesizes the debate into an overarching definition ('the unjust interference w people’s affective lives, w regard to their own affective practices or through those of others') & brings out many connections between existing views/1

Do emotions drive political engagement?
 A busy pizzeria takes many orders and makes many pizzas, but its busyness doesn’t *cause* these, except via feedback effects. Likewise, I argue here, emotions correlate with new evaluations and motivations, but don’t *cause* them, except via feedback effects.

New Episode of The Philosophy of Emotion Podcast! This time in French. Check out this great interview of Julien Deonna and Fabrice Teroni (Geneva) by @cbonard.bsky.social. Look out for another episode in with Deonna and Teroni in English in the future!

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-...

A few of my thoughts about artistic wrongs and artistic redemption were included this article about the possible comeback of Fab Morvan (of Milli Vanilli) www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

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

In moments of anger, we often feel certain that our position is right, both morally and factually. | https://iai.tv/articles/anger-is-not-a-guide-to-truth-or-morality-auid-3427 But philosopher Benjamin Matheson examines how anger can both reveal and obscure moral reality.

I missed this amazing presentation of the manosphere at the end of October, but wow this is really worth your time: www.theguardian.com/technology/n...

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 over-analysis of children's stories continues: philosophicalparent.substack.com/p/more-on-mo...

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

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-...

The final issue of Hypatia for 2025, 40.4, is now up: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

@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

Una pregunta para los habladores de Español: cuando una persona dice que algo le hace ilusión, ¿cómo explicarías esto en inglés?

Check out the new episode of our podcast 😃

Episode 4 of The Philosophy of Emotion Podcast is now available! Prof. Emanuela Ceva (University of Geneva) talks with @cbonard.bsky.social about institutional dysfunctions and emotions. open.substack.com/pub/thecogsp...

The level of grievance within a community is a key barometer for the community's vulnerability to democratic backsliding. Influencers can radicalize people in aggrieved communities as a political "force multiplier." From my testimony to EU Parliament. www.youtube.com/watch?v=j43Q...

Episode 3 of The Philosophy of Emotion Podcast is now available! @alfredarcher.bsky.social on affective artifacts and affective injustice. thecogsproject.substack.com/publish/post...

The introduction to the Special Issue 'Commemorating Evildoers' is out (pre-view). I am told the whole issue will come out soon. Co-edited with Hallich for Journal of Applied Philosophy #ethics @idea-leeds.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Episode 2 of The Philosophy of Emotion Podcast is available now! In this episode, Krista Thomason (@@kkthomason.bsky.social) talks about Shame and Negative Emotions.

Episode 2 of The Philosophy of Emotion Podcast will be released on May 8th. The next episode features Krista Thomason talking about Shame and Negative Emotions. thecogsproject.substack.com/p/episode-2-...

Now available online: "Shame in Response to Institutional Failure" - co-authored with @alfredarcher.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

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

Episode 1 of the Philosophy of Emotion Podcast launches this Tuesday, April 8th with David Shoemaker on Amusement open.substack.com/pub/thecogsp...

My paper "Blameworthiness is Terminable" has been assigned to an issue of The Philosophical Quarterly. Randolph Clarke's discussion of my paper is also included in this issue.

The second 2025 issue of The Philosophical Quarterly is out! academic.oup.com/pq/issue/75/2 @standrewsphil.bsky.social

I've published something else on my project's blog. This time about collective guilt: thecogsproject.substack.com/p/what-is-co...

My paper "Fame and Redemption" has now been assigned to an issue. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

The first post on my project's blog has been published. We'll soon also be launching "The Philosophy of Emotion Podcast" featuring interviews with leading and emerging figures on recent and prominent ideas in the philosophy of emotion. Check it out!

Randolph Clarke has published a reply to my paper "Blameworthiness is Terminable". It helps develop the debate, but I still think that blameworthiness is terminable (and you should too).

Delighted to share my PhD student's latest work which is based on her master's thesis: