Carme Isern-Mas

New publication! ✨

A new psychometric scale to measure fears related to generative AI.

Hopefully useful for researchers, or anyone, studying AI psychology. 😇

Philosophical arguments can boost charitable giving We are pleased to invite you to the first talk in the Experimental Philosophy Journal Series, the new journal dedicated to X-Phi. In this session, Eric Schwitzgebel (California) and Kirstan Brodie (Co...

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.

philevents.org/event/show/1...

🏛️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'.

⚖️ 2025 Legal Interpretation and Moral Reasoning Workshop

📍Carmen de la Victoria | 🗓️Nov 5-7

Leading researchers in philosophy, law, and cognitive science explore how moral reasoning shapes legal interpretation
Organized by the Moral Science Lab

👉 Full program & details: mscilab.com/workshop

Consigning Injustice to History with Political Apologies Failures to remember the past properly can constitute a range of different wrongs. In this article, we identify a novel kind of wrong that often occurs through political apologies: consigning an inju....

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

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

🙂 Yesterday, our colleague Manuel Almagro presented his his talk "Public Opinion Polarization and Resistance" at the METIS Seminar (UNED).

I'm happy that this paper co-authored with Vilius Dranseika has finally been published.
Case for Pluralism in Death Determination: From Empirical Data to a Policy Proposal url: academic.oup.com/jmp/article-...

YouTube video by Uehiro Oxford Institute Channel Keynote Lecture: Ethical Aspects of Vaccine Research

www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Jd3... @oxmedhum.bsky.social @torchoxford.bsky.social

Episodicity, Mental Illness and Epistemic Injustice

Today on the #projectEPIC blog Sally Latham considers the costs and benefits of narrativism for mental health: epistemicinjusticeinhealthcareproject.blogspot.com/2025/10/epis... #epistemicinjustice #philpsy #philsky

What I Learned From: Mog The Forgetful Cat (by Judith Kerr) Can we be praiseworthy for what we do accidentally? What does Mog teach us about the nature of moral responsibility?

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-...

Concepts of health and disease: insights from experimental philosophy of medicine - Synthese Synthese - The aim of the paper is to explore how people understand the concepts of health and disease, including the factors that influence their judgments about whether a condition is a disease...

New paper in Synthèse. Open access.

YouTube video by Bibliotecas de Navarra / Nafarroako Liburutegiak "Decisiones delegadas a la IA: ética, derecho y tecnología a debate"

Pasé un buen rato en la Semana de la IA en la Biblioteca de Navarra el martes pasado.

Los colegas de la Cátedra Tracasa de Ciencias de la Computación e Inteligencia Artificial de la UPNA han colgado ya el vídeo sobre la mesa redonda: "Decisiones delegadas a la IA" 📹 www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_Oq...

In the latest episode of @ethicsuntangled.bsky.social , Jim speaks to Alfred Archer (Tilburg University) & Georgie Mills (TU Delft) about cancel culture.

👋📢OUTREACH / SAVE THE DATE!

Join us for a BIAP Public Lecture by Edouard Machery (University of Pittsburgh):
🎙️ “Reasonable Doubts? Should We Really Trust Science?”
🗓️ Date: 10 November 2025
🕡 Time: 18:30
📍 Venue: Sala Verdaguer, Ateneu Barcelonès, Barcelona
LINK: t.ly/nABMm

Call for Participants📢

If you’re a university student in the UK or UAE who has self-diagnosed (identified a mental health condition) or received a clinical diagnosis, I’d love for you to take part in this survey :)

Read details here: lnkd.in/d98XkyCW
Survey link: lnkd.in/dDx7q4YF

🙏💜

Blunting concepts: The double-edged effect of popularizing psychotherapy language The increasing presence of mental health-related language in everyday conversations gives rise to a worth-exploring tension: while it can enhance mental health literacy and provide individuals with...

here's the paper I mentioned: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

(PDF) Blunting Concepts: The Double-Edged Effect of Popularizing Psychotherapy Language PDF | The increasing presence of mental health-related language in everyday conversations gives rise to a worth-exploring tension: while it can enhance... | Find, read and cite all the research you ne...

Preprint: www.researchgate.net/publication/...

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

thanks to you, of course!

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...

Check out the latest issue from affiliated journal Passion, the SI 'Emotions—More Like Stars or Constellations?', edited by Heidy Meriste and Bruno Mölder (Tartu). The issue asks how to categorize emotions, and how much weight should we put on the study of folk emotion concepts. Open access! /1

YouTube video by IAS Research Ivar R. Hannikainen - Morality, coordination and law

🚨🗣️ The talk given by Ivar R. Hannikainen at the IAS Seminar is now available to view on our YouTube channel. Please click on the link below to access the video

𝐌𝐨𝐫𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲, 𝐜𝐨𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐥𝐚𝐰
www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7va...

YouTube video by ISPS-US Depathologizing Delusions and Conspiracy Theories

Here is a recording of my seminar at ISPS-US: youtu.be/RthxAy_DXqo?... #philsky #philpsy #EpistemicInjustice

YouTube video by MRD Ponencia de David Rodríguez-Arias en el Datafórum Justicia 2025.

📢 En el #DatafórumJusticia2025, nuestro compañero David Rodríguez-Arias (Cátedra Youngner de Bioética Empírica / FiloLab-UGR / INEDyTO) presentó el Observatorio Estatal sobre el Final de la Vida, una iniciativa conjunta de la Universidad de Granada y @sanidad.gob.es.

🎥 Vídeo 👉 youtu.be/p1gON5G80JQ

Principles for proper peer review

jocnf.pubpub.org/pub/qag76ip8

Jodie Russell

How can the ambiguity arising from discontinuity of our self and our illness lead to misunderstanding and alienation? Today's post is by Jodie Russell (University of Birmingham) on her recent paper “Prescriptive ‘selves’ and self-illness ambiguity”.

#philsky #philpsy
imperfectcognitions....

moltíssimes gràcies pel suport!! 🙌

Carme Isern @isernmas.bsky.social guanyadora d'una de les nostres beques de bioètica acaba de publicar la seva recerca sobre injustícia epistèmica a @springer.springernature.com Enhorabona! https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11017-025-09730-5

"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...