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Let me say a few words about who this book is for, and how to get the most out of it. I have intentionally tried to make this book as accessible as I can, and so I have tried to write it without presupposing that the reader is already familiar with the jargon, theories, and methodologies of academic philosophy and epistemology. Each chapter includes an annotated list of further readings where I make suggestions about where an interested reader might follow up on various issues covered in that chapter, and there is a glossary at the end of the book which gives the reader struggling to keep track of the various labels a place to quickly check their understanding (though precisely what is meant by many of the terms listed is part of what’s under contention in the chapters). Despite these steps, I don’t think I have wholly succeeded in making all of the topics and chapters accessible to all readers; some of the discussions remain unavoidably complex, and I have kept them in only because I judged them too central and significant for the topic of this book to leave out. What I have done is try to restrict the most difficult material to later chapters in each part of this book. This means that the text builds up to the more difficult chapters, in a way that hopefully keeps as many readers as possible on board, but it also means that readers can choose how deeply they want to engage with a particular topic. Chapters 10 and 11 are probably the most difficult in the whole book.

Since people might be thinking about topics and texts for teaching next year, I thought I'd post the bit of the preface of my recent book 'Epistemic Injustice: An Introduction' about who it's for and how to use it. (Alt-text is spread over this image and the one in the next post)

I thought this was an April’s Fool! My anecdotical evidence is that I didn’t have an undergraduate degree in Philosophy and my argumentative skills improved considerably when I had to learn logic to teach it during my PhD. So I have the opposite hot take: require logic for all degrees!

Thinking the City: Perspectives on the Philosophy of Place This conference aims to establish a sustained and systematic philosophical engagement with the city as an object of inquiry within analytic philosophy. While cities profoundly structure our social, mo...

CFP for grad students & early career researchers on phil of place! It will be at the University of Cambridge at the end of May, with a dedicated day to early career talks & discussion w invited speakers, and a second day w invited talks (I will be presenting on care-washing & urban policy)

I loved writing it! I planned it as a tool to teach and introduce the concept and the debate, as well as tidying up some existing tensions and terminological confusions. I hope I have succeeded in my aim to cite EVERYTHING out on the matter by Jan 2026--message me if you spot something missing!/3

This is not my own view on affective injustice, but a critical overview with i) summary of the debate, ii) definition and taxonomies, iii) purpose and criticisms, iv) the grounds of affective injustice, and v) future directions. It connects the lit on affective injustice w existing debates too/2

Pilar Lopez-Cantero, Affective injustice - PhilPapers Oppression, marginalization, and other forms of disadvantage often come with emotional burdens, such as feelings of insecurity or stress. At the same time, some features of oppression are emotional in...

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

How to Walk Away | Blog of the APA Breaking up with someone can be painful and difficult. Breakups can make you depressed and even damage your heart and immune system. For that reason, being the one who says “it’s over” can be torturou...

My public philosophy piece on break-ups and morality is out today in the blog of the APA. It picks up on several threads in my ongoing work on the party who does the breaking up, but if I have to pick the one highlight: breaking up is hard, and you must be prepared to get it wrong.

Women in Philosophy: Carme Isern Mas on affective injustice and therapy speak As part of a series of talks dedicated to the work of women in philosophy, Dr Carme Isern Mas from the University of the Balearic Islands in Spain argues that therapy speak can give rise to affective injustice. This lecture is supported by The Royal Institute of Philosophy.

Highlights from the Women in Philosophy lecture series: Carme Isern Mas on affective injustice and therapy speak youtu.be/D503DIgKtg4... #philsky

Pleased to announce our workshop ‘Intimate (In)Justices’ at MANCEPT 2026

Co-convened alongside @kristin-kaeuper.bsky.social and Charlotte Curran from @clsrleeds.bsky.social

research.manchester.ac.uk/en/activitie...

Please do it! This is probably one of my favourite things about the Netherlands

Getting my presentation ready for Friday's conference on friendship (free and fully online!). Program and registration details here: philevents.org/event/show/1...

Las fronteras no son normales El discurso de extrema derecha ha conseguido normalizar la muerte de decenas de miles de personas en las rutas migratorias; el trato inhumano en redadas, detenciones y expulsiones, y el trabajo semiesclavo en las economías del norte.

Editorial | El discurso de extrema derecha ha conseguido normalizar la muerte de decenas de miles de personas en las rutas migratorias; el trato inhumano en redadas, detenciones y expulsiones, y el trabajo semiesclavo.

❓ Why does philosophy matter to you? 💡

We'd love to hear from you, ahead of British Philosophy Fortnight on 16-29 March.

Tell us why #PhilosophyMatters:

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I wrote a summary of my research project in cities in the EPIC blog. To the research topics I mention here, I have recently added a collaboration with a Veterinary postdoc on urban pigeons!

Thanks for this since this will be useful when turning this paper into a chapter, where I will be committing to my view on existential feeling, but where it will be good to introduce how alternative commitments on the nature of being in love may yield the same result. Very helpful!

I see it now -- so our only disagreement is really in my understanding of falling out of love as sometimes not being explainable in terms of reasons. Your discussion is very useful to show that my view does not necessarily need you to buy my existential feeling framework, which is fantastic!

FWIW I think that is the difference between Betzler and myself too. Practically we agree on most stuff, and we just differ with regards to the role of reasons. Her paper is really great and has a lot of nuances I could not address in a short reply!

My view is that although reasons can be a constituent of good break-ups, good break-ups need not involve reasons at all--neither internal not interpersonal deliberation. You and I could be practically in agreement about what people should do, but differ on the role of reasons in good break-ups then?

Right, yes I don't see massive disagreements there. What I think I would miss with your version of the argument is that seeing breakups as an opportunity for deliberation is itself a problem beyond where one has reasons or not, and access them or not (continues)

Pilar Lopez-Cantero, Break-up duties and the limits of deliberation: A reply to Betzler - PhilPapers Leaving a relationship without talking to the other person seems, in principle, morally callous. Monika Betzler argues that people initiating break-ups have duties to explain and to facilitate partici...

Here's the unpaywalled last version before publishing, as well as a gift link to the actual journal article (email me if the link has stopped working and I will get you a new link):

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Break-up duties and the limits of deliberation: A reply to Betzler Abstract. Leaving a relationship without talking to the other person seems, in principle, morally callous. Monika Betzler argues that people initiating bre

The 1st publication of my research on break-ups & morality. I argue that we don't have a duty to explain to our partners the reasons for breaking up with them. Read the short article for my argument against giving excessive weight to reasons in break-ups, & do reply if you have thoughts

It was a treat today to have Carme Isern-Mas (@isernmas.bsky.social) as a guest lecturer at the Antwerp-Ghent-VU Brussel Research Masters in Philosophy. Students loved her ongoing work on therapy speak, and we had a great discussion on mental health, relationships and the social use of words.

Applications are now open for 2 PhD scholarships on the “The Diversity and Variability of Grief” at Macquarie University, Sydney. 1/3 www.mq.edu.au/research/phd...

Great workshop today at Antwerp on Moral Psychology & The City! Elisabetta Gobbo talked about affect & gentrification; Jamie Draper presented his expressive theory of spatial inequality; Marian Counihan gave a super useful taxonomy of urban diversity & I shared my wip on affective rights to the city

Carspreading: how we lost our streets to SUVs — SUV Alliance Cars are getting bigger. We’ve all noticed it. Streets once home with hatchbacks are now dominated by large SUVs and 4x4s. 

I will keep you posted! A very short public phil piece should be out soon, and the long form paper will be co-authored with Dan Guillery over the course of the year. I got into this through campaigning orgs like @cleancitiescampaign.org and the SUV alliance, which have tons of useful info & reports

Don’t get me started on how huge cars make this way worse! I am writing on thus and precisely how lack of visibility deprives non motorists of feelings of safety (and how that is a distributive affective injustice, as well as potentially a form of marginalisation). I’ll rant about this all day long

Very happy about this— I’ve learned a lot from Bennett School’s (and its predecessor institute’s) research on place and identity over the years, and it’s directly influenced how I conceived my project on emotion and urban justice. Excited to be part of it and to expand the phil of urban policy!

21st Annual Doctoral Conference 2026 Humanity at a Turning Point: Reaffirming or Reimagining Political Common Sense? CEU’s Annual Doctoral Conference (ADC) provides an interdisciplinary space to present works in progress, receive c...

If you're a graduate student or know any, look at this call. This is an annual conference at CEU, with a stream of panels in political philosophy. And this year's keynote is Andrew Williams! Deadline for abstracts: the 26th of February.
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Free&Equal do 12k review essays. You can also try Passion—although it is a phil of emotion journal they could be open to this sort of submission, for example Ben Matheson just published a longer 3-book review on anxiety, guilt and pride from the perspective of a parent