Rodrigo Díaz

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Attention philosophers, x-philosophers and moral psychologists - I'm hiring! Two, 3-year research fellowships on an interdisciplinary project in the Philosophical Moral Psychology Lab at the Uehiro Institute, Oxford. Pass it on! For more info and to apply: tinyurl.com/mrwwuyaw

'Positive review only': Researchers hide AI prompts in papers Instructions in preprints from 14 universities highlight controversy on AI in peer review

This is crazy! Research papers from 14 academic institutions in eight countries contained hidden prompts directing artificial intelligence tools to give them good reviews asia.nikkei.com/Business/Tec...

🎓 The 2024–25 academic year has been a period of growth and consolidation for the VlC Philosophy LAB.

Here's an overview of the key highlights of our academic activity and relevant information👇

🙃A RT is always appreciated!

Just a few days left to submit a commentary proposal (~500 words) on our BBS paper! Deadline: June 28. You can submit here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal....

A reminder of the upcoming deadline for our Feminist Philosophy of Emotions SI, open until 1 July 2025!

Guest edited by the wonderful Laura Silva, Federico Lauria, and @arinapismenny.bsky.social ✨

Please make submissions through our website: passion-journal.org/about/submis...

Thanks to a stellar line-up: Christine Tappolet, Alex Carty, Luc Faucher, Miriam McCormick, Michael Milona, Catherine Rioux, Jules Salomone-Sehr, Max Lewis, Mauro Rossi, Ronald de Sousa & @proflaurasilva.bsky.social.

Volume 18, Number 2, 2024 – Les ateliers de l'éthique / The Ethics Forum Read this issue of the journal Les ateliers de l'éthique / The Ethics Forum on Érudit. Discipline: Humanities and Social Sciences.

Our symposium on Christine Tappolet’s “Philosophy of Emotion: A Contemporary Introduction,” co-edited with Melissa Hernández-Parra, is now out in The Ethics Forum‬ @lecre.bsky.social!

My Canadian university, Queen's, is offering TWENTY 4-year funded PhDs (40k CAD/yr) for a student of ANY citizenship who has been accepted at a top 100 US university but have had offer rescinded OR are reconsidering offer due to US policy.
Details found here👇

www.queensu.ca/grad-postdoc...

Máster de Formación Permanente en Ética de la Inteligencia Artificial - UC3M & CSIC | UC3M Máster de Formación Permanente en Ética de la Inteligencia Artificial - UC3M & CSIC

👉Ya está abierto el plazo de admisión para inscribirse en el nuevo máster UC3M en Formación Permanente en Ética de la Inteligencia Artificial, en colaboración con el @csic.es

www.uc3m.es/formacion-pe...

Ethan Landes & Kevin Reuter, Conceptual Revision in Action - PhilPapers Conceptual engineering is the practice of revising concepts to improve how people talk and think. Its ability to improve talk and thought ultimately hinges on the successful dissemination of desired c...

Forthcoming in RoPP: Are conceptual engineers right, can concepts be revised?

Not settling for indirect evidence or speculation, we went right to the source and checked experimentally.

philpapers.org/rec/LANCRI-3

Very happy to announce that our paper “Sensory Horizons and the Functions of Conscious Vision” is now out as a target article in BBS!! @smfleming.bsky.social and I present a new theory of the evolution and functions of visual consciousness. Article here: doi.org/10.1017/S014.... A (long) thread 🧵

When research yields findings that are boring and incremental, people sometimes feel that something is going very wrong.

But people should see it in exactly the opposite way. We are not doing a good job in helping people understand the importance of boring incremental research

PhD position in semantics and pragmatics “VALENCE ASYMMETRIES: The positive, the negative, the good and the bad in language, mind and morality” is an interdisciplinary project that seeks to understand the mechanisms that underlie the asymmet...

We are inviting applications for a fully funded 4 year PhD position in semantics and pragmatics, as part of my ERC project "Valence Asymmetries", at University Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona). Application deadline: 25 April 2025

📢 El #CSIC convoca más de 400 becas #JAE_Intro_ICU de introducción a la investigación

👩‍🔬 Destinadas a estudiantes de grado y máster, ofrecen la oportunidad de adquirir experiencia en los centros del Consejo

🗓️ Primer plazo abierto hasta el 16 de abril

👉 http://tiny.cc/1xoe001

International Conference Envolving Ethics for Envolving Minds International Conference Envolving Ethics for Envolving Minds

📭 The call for abstracts for the International Conference on Evolving Ethics for Evolving Minds is open until 15th May!

🗓️ The conference will take place on 16th and 17th October at Granada, Spain.

@easpsalud.bsky.social @filolab.bsky.social

www.easp.es/congreso/eth...

Se convoca contrato indefinido con cargo a proyecto de bioética empírica (enfoque cuantitativo) en la Universidad de Granada.

Plazo de solicitud: hasta el 27 de marzo.

Ref. 1448. 👇
investigacion.ugr.es/sites/vic/in...

Unfair Emotions | Their Morality and Blameworthiness | Jonas Blatter | This book provides a novel philosophical account of the unfairness of certain emotions. It explains how the concept of unfairness can be applied to emotions and

Short answer: yes, emotions can sometimes be unfair to others; yes, those others can sometimes appropriately blame you for them; but blame can be resolved.

Long answer: https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-mono/10.4324/9781003498032/unfair-emotions-jonas-blatter
#philsky #philosophy

UC3M y CSIC se unen para ofrecer el máster en ética de la inteligencia artificial 📣📣📣

Desde este claro interés en la ética, MAETIA tiene una clara orientación interdisciplinar, entrando en conversación con el Derecho, la Ingeniería y otras ramas de la Filosofía. 👇👇👇

Everyone welcome!

Reasons to Respond to AI Emotional Expressions Abstract. Human emotional expressions can communicate the emotional state of the expresser, but they can also communicate appeals to perceivers. For example, sadness expressions such as crying request...

Should we respond to AI’s emotional expressions? 🤖
In our new paper, @jonasblatter.bsky.social and I argue that the reasons depend on design features, not authenticity.

Read here: doi.org/10.5406/2152...
Preprint: philpapers.org/archive/DAZR...

Thrilled to announce that our new paper on experimental metaepistemology, co-authored with @rodrigodiazxphi.bsky.social, has been accepted at Episteme!!

We investigate the debate on what grounds epistemic normativity between epistemic instrumentalists and intrinsicalists. (1/4)

5th European Experimental Philosophy Conference A group of experimental philosophers at the University of East Anglia

The 2025 Euro #Xphi conference has just been announced for July 10-12 at University of East Anglia.

The subfield is very friendly and supportive, and so I highly recommend the conference, especially if you are just starting out your empirical journey

x-phi.uea.ac.uk/EuroX-Phi202...

#philsky