Cuando lees un texto y puedes sentir que quien lo escribe te está mirando de arriba abajo… 🤢

Hasta el 27 de marzo está abierta la convocatoria para solicitar un contrato de técnico superior de investigación en Valencia, asociado al proyecto NANESI que co-dirijo con Neri Marsili.

Más info: 👇

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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. 🙌

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...

Two people talking

Latest papers: Manuel Almagro & Carme Isern-Mas examine the tension of the increasing presence of mental health-related language in everyday conversations from a practice-focused approach to meaning doi.org/10.1080/0951... #philsky #philpsy

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...

De-idealizing Hate Speech: Hate Narratives - Topoi Recent work has focused on the ordinary concept of hate speech. Yet, there remains little consensus on how to define it. Given this lack of agreement in the literature, a seemingly reasonable strategy...

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...

(PDF) De-idealizing hate speech: Hate narratives PDF | There is little consensus among scholars on how to define the ordinary concept of hate speech, but there is broad agreement that slurs constitute... | Find, read and cite all the research you ne...

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/...

Acabamos de sacar un libro blanco sobre desacuerdos en contextos digitales, uno de los resultados del proyecto #digi_morals financiado por #fundacionBBVA

Resultado de la colaboración entre tres ámbitos: la filosofía, la comunicación y la ciencia política

👇👇🎉🎉📣

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Four people stand on a small stage holding awards in front of a banner that reads “Practical Philosophy. For Everyone.”

A person stands on a stage holding an award in front of a banner that reads “Practical Philosophy.”

Congratulations to Adam Lovett, an assistant professor in political theory at SGIA, for being shortlisted for the Royal Institute of Philosophy's book prize in interdisciplinary philosophy! @triphilosophy.bsky.social

🏛️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'.

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
in @journalphp.bsky.social

🔓 tinyurl.com/24bhx4e9

Back to abusive partners demanding respect for their “boundaries” & abusive bosses recommending mindfulness.

I talked with @seiaraimanova.bsky.social about my work w/ @almagro.bsky.social on therapy-speak on her amazing podcast Behind the Stigma🎙️

Check it out!

www.buzzsprout.com/1402324/epis...

Shortlist announced for the Nayef-Al Rodhan Book Prize 2025 - Royal Institute of Philosophy The Royal Institute of Philosophy has announced the shortlist for the 2025 Nayef Al-Rodhan International Prize in Transdisciplinary Philosophy. Learn more.

Great news ‼️

📘The book 'The Rise of Polarization: Affects, Politics, and Philosophy' (Almagro, 2025) has been shortlisted for the 2025 Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize in Transdisciplinary Philosophy.

👏Congrats, @almagro.bsky.social

royalinstitutephilosophy.org/news/shortli...

"The Rise of Polarization: Affects, Politics, and Philosophy" by @almagro.bsky.social (published by @routledgebooks.bsky.social) has been shortlisted for the Nayef Al-Rodhan International Prize in Transdisciplinary #Philosophy 2025.

Learn more: royalinstitutephilosophy.org/news/shortli...

New publication! ✨

Remember Jonah Hill asking Sarah Brady to stop modeling to respect his “boundaries”? Or an abusive boss recommending mindfulness after your complaints?

@almagro.bsky.social and I are now ready to tell you when and why therapy-speak might be wrong.

🔓Link in reply

In the second part, we go further: the inherited notion of deep disagreement may actually conflict with central Wittgensteinian insights.

We suggest that the very idea of “deep disagreement” is, in an important sense, not really Wittgensteinian at all.

In the first part, we argue that Wittgenstein’s remarks on ethics and moral judgments are at odds with the inherited notion of deep disagreement.

Moral disagreements are neither discussions about standards or worldviews, nor unfailingly constrained by the parties’ standards.

(PDF) A Wittgensteinian take on moral vs. deep disagreements PDF | The notion of deep disagreement was originally introduced by Fogelin to describe situations where disagreement about the truth-value of a... | Find, read and cite all the research you need on Re...

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/...

✨ PhD position available ✨
@loehrgui.bsky.social and I will be running a research project on disruptive technologies from a niche construction perspective, and we're hiring a PhD candidate! Details 👇
Please circulate the add and tell your students about it 😊
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Longlist announced for the Nayef Al-Rodhan Book Prize 2025 - Royal Institute of Philosophy The Royal Institute of Philosophy unveils the longlist for the 2025 Nayef Al-Rodhan International Prize in Transdisciplinary Philosophy. Learn more.

So excited to see Manuel Almagro Holgado's new book long-listed for the Royal Institute of Philosophy's Nayef Al-Rodhan International Prize in Transdisciplinary Philosophy. Congrats to Manuel and all the other long-listers! royalinstitutephilosophy.org/news/longlis...

Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize 2025: Book Prize longlist announced. The Royal Institute of Philosophy. royalinstitutephilosophy.org

Today, we unveil the longlist for the 2025 Nayef Al-Rodhan International Prize in Transdisciplinary Philosophy. Congratulations to all our longlisted authors. 📚🎉
royalinstitutephilosophy.org/news/longlis...
#philosophy #bookprize #longlist

Muchas gracias!!!

Longlist announced for the Nayef Al-Rodhan Book Prize 2025 - Royal Institute of Philosophy The Royal Institute of Philosophy unveils the longlist for the 2025 Nayef Al-Rodhan International Prize in Transdisciplinary Philosophy. Learn more.

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...

The Rise of Polarization: Affects, Politics, and Philosophy A blog about imperfect cognitions, such as delusional beliefs, distorted memories, confabulatory explanations, and implicit biases.

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-...

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 ⬇️

📣 Coloquio sobre comunicación pública
🗓️ 4 de julio | ⏰ 09:00–13:00
📍 Carmen de la Victoria (Granada)

Periodistas, investigadoras y especialistas debatirán sobre los cruces entre ciencia, comunicación y política.

Organizan: Elvira González Salmón y Sergio Guerra

🌍 The final programme for the FiloLab 2025 International Summer School — Climate Change, Science Communication, and Public Opinion — is now available!

🗓️ June 30 – July 3 | 📍 Granada, Spain

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@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. 📽️

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