Carme Isern-Mas

Somogy Varga speaking at our Institute on moralization of heath and disease

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

The mental aspects of urban justice

Affinity: the mental aspects of urban justice by @lopezcantero.bsky.social epistemicinjusticeinhealthcareproject.blogspot.com/2026/02/the-... #philpsy #philsky #epistemicinjustice

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

YouTube video by The Philosophy Garden Women in Philosophy: Anna Golova on Self-Illness Ambiguity

A wonderful lecture on self-illness ambiguity by Anna Golova today! You can enjoy the recording here: youtu.be/_tYa_HgS7Fo Thanks again to @triphilosophy.bsky.social for supporting our series. #philsky #philpsy #philosophyforeveryone #WomeninPhilosophy

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.

Yes! Can't wait!!

this looks very interesting!!

New paper with Georgie Mills: The Ethics of Cancelling. We argue that cancelling covers a range of moral practices. It is not always punishment, it can instead involve correcting reputations, ending parasocial relationships or relationships of informal representation. Read more here: rdcu.be/e4jay

How AI-generated sexual images cause real harm, even though we know they are ‘fake’ Publicly bombarding women with these images exerts control over how they present themselves online.

I wrote an article for @theconversation.com on how philosophy can help us understand the deep harms of AI-generated sexual images, e.g by Grok on X, as well as other digital misogyny like assault in virtual reality. #philsky #philtech

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Mental Disorder as a Harmful Dysfunction with Dr. Jerome Wakefield Podcast Episode · Behind the Stigma · February 20 · 1h 29m

This week on Behind the Stigma I spoke with Professor Jerome Wakefield on mental disorders as a harmful dysfunction.

We also discussed the boundary between normal suffering & disorder, evolutionary perspectives & the bereavement exclusion in DSM.

Listen here: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/m...

Episode 5: Pilar Lopez-Cantero on Romantic Love The Philosophy of Emotion Podcast

Check out the latest episode of The Philosophy of Emotion Podcast! @lopezcantero.bsky.social Lopez-Cantero talks about romantic love.

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Alexander Edlich

This week's post is by Alexander Edlich (LMU Munich), and Alfred Archer (University of Tilburg) presenting their paper 'Rejecting Identities: Stigma and Hermeneutical Injustice' published in Social Epistemology.

#philsky #philpsy
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When Are Psychiatric Patients Considered Less Credible? Implications for the Epistemic Injustice Debate - Neuroethics Philosophers have argued that people with psychiatric conditions are vulnerable to epistemic injustice because their testimony is systematically, and unjustly, discredited relative to psychotypical in...

By the way, the paper I was mentioning in this post has been published! :)

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Are Conspiracy Theorists Confabulating? - Review of Philosophy and Psychology In this paper, I outline the mechanisms of confabulation and how these mechanisms facilitate not only the maintenance of belief in conspiracy theories, but also their initial adoption. I argue by infe...

Finally out!
TLDR: People don't feel shit cause they believe wild conspiracy theories, they believe CTs cause they feel shit. CT beliefs are often confabulations explaining their existential predicament. I drew on LOTS empirical stuff to try & make this defeasible:
link.springer.com/article/10.1...

ohh! moltes gràcies per la menció!!

Carme Isern @isernmas.bsky.social , professora de la @uib.cat i guanyadora d'una beca de bioètica, acaba de publicar un nou article sobre la seva recerca. Enhorabona!  https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12152-025-09625-1

Totally unexpected but apparently my book Playing Possum has won the Austrian Science Book of the Year award for the category of natural sciences. ✨✨✨

Beyond thrilled and delighted at the excuse to return to my beloved Vienna for the ceremony!

FILÓSOFAS EN STREAMING 2026

Ya está disponible el programa de la 7º edición de Filósofas en Streaming, una actividad de SWIP-Analytic en colaboración con la Sección de Filosofía de la ULL. Toda la info en nuestra página web:
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New publication!✨

When are psychiatric patients considered less credible?

When compared to non-patients, particularly by people who do not view epistemic injustice as a serious moral problem.

w/ @ivarr.bsky.social
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The Dark Side of Therapy Speak with Dr. Carme Isern-Mas - Behind the Stigma In this episode of Behind the Stigma, Seiara speaks with Dr. Carme Isern-Mas about the rise of “therapy-speak”, the popular use of psychological language in everyday life. Together, they explore how t...

And podcast version (with @seiaraimanova.bsky.social ) here?

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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. 🙌

New paper in Law and Philosophy, open access: link.springer.com/article/10.1... special thank you to @xphilosopher.bsky.social for super helpful comments on drafts! A 🧵 1/6

I’m sharing an interview I recently did for the APA blog. @vlc-lab.bsky.social @filolab.bsky.social

Check it out!

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Por cierto, he escrito un libro para el CIS de Sociología Experimental. Si os interesa adentraros en el mundo de la experimentación con un enfoque muy aplicado, es vuestro libro. Teoría, ejemplos didácticos, explicaciones sin muchos rollos.
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Filosofía en español: Hoy escribo sobre chatbots post-ruptura en El Salto.

Call for papers open for a thematic workshop on phil of emotion at @uniofnottingham.bsky.social — deadline is next week! More details:
philevents.org/event/show/1...