😡 Is anger always hostile? 🤬
🎙️ In this new episode of The Philosophy of Emotion Podcast, I'm joined by Laura Silva @proflaurasilva.bsky.social who challenges a deeply entrenched assumption about anger and shows what we miss when we treat it as purely destructive.
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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.
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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)
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@alfredarcher.bsky.social invited me to do this and I'm very pleased with the result. It's not a standard philosophy book review, but what might considered an "engaged" review, as I read the books from a particular perspective - namely, that of being a parent.
In moments of anger, we often feel certain that our position is right, both morally and factually. | iai.tv/articles/anger-is-not-a-...
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:
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New paper online now: “Consigning Injustice of History with Political Apologies” (by me and @alfredarcher.bsky.social).
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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.
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A gold flyer announcing that the new issue of Hypatia is now available. The flyer has a detail from the front cover of the journal running along its centre, depicting various abstract women's faces and hair in different shades of blue.
The final issue of Hypatia for 2025, 40.4, is now up: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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and I are organising a workshop and special issue of the Journal of Ethics on the Ethics of Fandom. Call for abstracts here:
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Some great speakers already confirmed:
@ajkadlac.bsky.social
, Erin Tarver and Kamila Pacovská
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Yeah, it seems quite a bit narrower (but that's from my non-native/non-proficient perspective). There seems to me to something that is hard to put into words about "ilusion".
As a non-native and non-proficient speaker, there does seem to me to be something missing from those translations. I'm not sure if it's because it sounds like "illusion" in English, but I get the sense there's something almost visual/experiential about "ilusion". It's hard to pin down exactly what!
Una pregunta para los habladores de Español: cuando una persona dice que algo le hace ilusión, ¿cómo explicarías esto en inglés?
And I'm someone that used to be a bit precious about people coming from other areas that not citing every bit of (what I thought was) important literature in "my area". Sometimes, of course, people could do with actually reading what's been published on a topic before.
I think there's some work from people outside one area where they don't engage with all the finer points made in that area, but sometimes this can actually help them be most insightful as they don't get bogged down in the points the literature has taken to be most important...
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.
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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.
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Episode 3 of The Philosophy of Emotion Podcast is now available! @alfredarcher.bsky.social on affective artifacts and affective injustice.
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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
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