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📢 We're hiring a Research Assistant (online surveying & data analysis) for the ERC project COST-X @ Università di Torino
‼️ Deadline approaching: 20 April 2026 🗓️
Looking for a stats-savvy candidate (R preferred)
12+12 months
Details here: 👇
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I'm pleased to drop the webpage for tomorrow's Consortium on Moral Decision-Making moral measures workshop. Click to see the schedule for the afternoon, including talk titles, abstracts, bios, & more. Monday March 23 from 1:30-5:00p.m. EDT, hybrid #psychscisky
moralconsortium.psu.edu/events/moral...
Do any of y'all know of good empirical research or philosophical perspectives on the feeling of immersion in the world of a film? My philosophy of cogsci students want to read something on that--but I don't know what to give them!
Hi Bluesky! 👋 We’re the Philosophical Moral Psychology Lab, based at the Uehiro Oxford Institute. We use experimental philosophy and moral psychology methods to study morality, with the aim of contributing to normative and philosophical debates in ethics. Follow us to keep up with our work!
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Interesting! Can you explain how you do it with ChatGPT?
Even with pretty extensive interventions (nearly hour long scripted conversations with participants where they were asked to explain their responses and consider disagreement) we also found it hard to find any effect: academic.oup.com/book/57562/c...
I'm trying to make a list of all the PhD programs in philosophy with (TT/tenured) faculty seriously working in AI ethics. (Think about prospective graduate students looking for supervisors in AI ethics.) What's missing?
Oxford, Stanford, Harvard, MIT, Florida, Georgia, Purdue?
(plz share)
Deadline today!
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Applications for 2026-27 now open for Visiting Fellows and Postdoctoral Fellows!
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The journal "Experimental
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Conclusion: fear might not just react to danger – it might reveal it, as perceptualist theories argue. (5/5)
Another argument posits that non-evaluative facts like “it can cause food poisoning” explain fear only because they presuppose a danger assessment. However, in a new study, only a few participants mentioned “danger” when asked why non-evaluative facts give reasons for fear. (4/5)
Some have argued that we commonly explain our fears in terms of danger. However, data from the Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA) deny this: among 630 instances of “afraid of […] because”, only 12 were followed by “danger” or similar terms. (3/5)
Reactive theories argue that fear is a response to real or apparent danger. Thus, awareness of danger comes first, and fear does not make us aware of danger. In our paper, we counter two main arguments in favor of reactive theories. (2/5)
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
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.
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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/
Attention philosophers, x-philosophers and moral psychologists - I'm hiring! Two, 3-year research fellowships on an interdisciplinary project in the Philosophical Moral Psychology Lab at the Uehiro Institute, Oxford. Pass it on! For more info and to apply: tinyurl.com/mrwwuyaw
This is crazy! Research papers from 14 academic institutions in eight countries contained hidden prompts directing artificial intelligence tools to give them good reviews asia.nikkei.com/Business/Tec...
🎓 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!
Just a few days left to submit a commentary proposal (~500 words) on our BBS paper! Deadline: June 28. You can submit here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal....
A reminder of the upcoming deadline for our Feminist Philosophy of Emotions SI, open until 1 July 2025!
Guest edited by the wonderful Laura Silva, Federico Lauria, and @arinapismenny.bsky.social ✨
Please make submissions through our website: passion-journal.org/about/submis...
Thanks to a stellar line-up: Christine Tappolet, Alex Carty, Luc Faucher, Miriam McCormick, Michael Milona, Catherine Rioux, Jules Salomone-Sehr, Max Lewis, Mauro Rossi, Ronald de Sousa & @proflaurasilva.bsky.social.
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!
My Canadian university, Queen's, is offering TWENTY 4-year funded PhDs (40k CAD/yr) for a student of ANY citizenship who has been accepted at a top 100 US university but have had offer rescinded OR are reconsidering offer due to US policy.
Details found here👇
www.queensu.ca/grad-postdoc...
👉Ya está abierto el plazo de admisión para inscribirse en el nuevo máster UC3M en Formación Permanente en Ética de la Inteligencia Artificial, en colaboración con el @csic.es
www.uc3m.es/formacion-pe...
Forthcoming in RoPP: Are conceptual engineers right, can concepts be revised?
Not settling for indirect evidence or speculation, we went right to the source and checked experimentally.
philpapers.org/rec/LANCRI-3
Very happy to announce that our paper “Sensory Horizons and the Functions of Conscious Vision” is now out as a target article in BBS!! @smfleming.bsky.social and I present a new theory of the evolution and functions of visual consciousness. Article here: doi.org/10.1017/S014.... A (long) thread 🧵
When research yields findings that are boring and incremental, people sometimes feel that something is going very wrong.
But people should see it in exactly the opposite way. We are not doing a good job in helping people understand the importance of boring incremental research
