Constant Bonard

Ah ouais, les barrières sont tombées.

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People often complain that philosophy doesn't generate knowledge like the sciences. Sometimes you even here this from philosophers! They point to the interminable debates in philosophy (like utilitarianism vs deontology) as evidence for this claim.

This is wrong, however.

Latest from the lab: our theory of how paranoia can be about social things, without dedicated social processing @juliasheffield.bsky.social, Santiago Castiello, Rosa Rossi-Goldthorpe, @praveensuthaharan.bsky.social and @celiaheyes.bsky.social

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If you stumble upon a text trying to make an argument that CAs aren’t democratic I’d be interested to read it!

I agree! But is it really a hot take? Are there people who disagree except those who don’t really know what CAs are? Genuine question

Episode 3: Alfred Archer on Affective Artifacts and Affective Injustice The Philosophy of Emotion Podcast

We’re excited to share the latest episode of the Philosophy of Emotion Podcast! 🎙️💭💗
@alfredarcher.bsky.social joins @benjaminmatheson.bsky.social to discuss affective artifacts and affective injustice.

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Episode 2: Krista Thomason on Shame and Negative Emotions The Philosophy of Emotion Podcast

We're very happy to release Ep. 2 of the Philosophy of Emotion podcast! @kkthomason.bsky.social on shame and negative emotions 🫣, interviewed by @benjaminmatheson.bsky.social Hope you enjoy it! open.substack.com/pub/thecogsp...

Nice 😃 @teresafm.bsky.social @contesi.bsky.social

We’re excited to have Teresa Marques (University of Barcelona) joining us today for an internal KiC talk. She will present her recent publication: "The Defectiveness of Propaganda", co-authored with Constant Bonard and Filippo Contesi.

Man trapped in a bottle on the cover of the book

Free access! Jacob Berger reviews "The Epistemic Role of #Consciousness" (OUP) by Declan Smithies doi.org/10.1080/0951... #vol38issue4 #philsky #booksky

Chouette, un article pas catastrophiste sur le sujet. Mais un peu trop optimiste ? N’explique pas les recommandations « de bon sens » citées à la toute fin, comme : pas de réseaux sociaux avant 15 ans, pas d’écran avant 3 ans, pas de smartphone avant 11 ans. Aurais apprécié :)

Go Teresa 🥳

Episode 1: David Shoemaker on Amusement The Philosophy of Emotion Podcast

The first episode of the philosophy of emotion podcast is available now!

Episode 1: David Shoemaker on Amusement open.substack.com/pub/thecogsp...

What’s missing for today’s AI to be like 𝐻𝑒𝑟’s Samantha? Could AI ever fall in love with us—not just the other way around? Super glad to have been invited to talk about such questions at the film festival "Rencontres du 7e Art" to introduce Spike Jonze's 2013 visionary movie.
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🎧 Ben Matheson and I are launching this new podcast series. Stay tuned!

Congrats on your new position!

LSE announces new centre to study animal sentience The Jeremy Coller Centre for Animal Sentience at LSE will develop new approaches to studying the feelings of other animals scientifically.

An emotional day - I can announce I'll be the first director of The Jeremy Coller Centre for Animal Sentience at the LSE, supported by a £4m grant from the Jeremy Coller Foundation. Our mission: to develop better policies, laws and ways of caring for animals. (1/2)
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Extreme stances about AI and LLMs in particular (be them deflationary or inflationary) are very likely wrong, valid and certainly not good for an healthy debate. But where do they come from? We (with @giadapistilli.com) argue that common cognitive biases may play a role:

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(Also, not a huge fan of the System 1-System 2 distinction 😬)

Yes, I was thinking that because human-specific mentalizing abilities are certainly cognitively demanding, that there is rather good evidence that humans have an especially “social” brain, and it is plausible that this is linked with Gricean-like maxims (see e.g. Tomasello)

Could it be that we use mentalizing + some type of charitable principle to interpret what others do (à la Grice)?

For my Paris friends interested in AI: I definitely recommend going to this event and following the AI-Phi group 🤖

Wow time flies!

Another cool contribution to what I call the « mental-behavioral methodology » for studying AI psychology. Kudos 🦾🤖

Can AI truly understand our emotional expressions? Super glad to have explored this question as an invited alumnus for the Swiss Center for Affective Sciences’ 20th anniversary 🎂 It was a great event! www.unige.ch/cisa/events/...

Happy to share the manuscript if you’re interested 🤖

Thanks! Sounds super interesting :)

I couldn’t read the whole piece (pay wall) but I’m curious: is your argument also leading to the claim that emotional “psychological” pain, like in anxiety or grief, also is closer to “physical” pain than one may think? (Re: our brief Prague conversation 🤓)

Merci 😃