Pilar Lopez-Cantero

PSA 🔈Our call for abstracts for EPSSE 2026 is now open! Our 2026 annual conference will be hosted in Germany by Universität Eichstätt-Ingolstadt on 24-26 June 2026 💫

Deadline for abstracts on all things philosophy of emotions: 1 December 2025

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Some academic conferences are treasurable spaces to meet new people, get together with old friends and share research with keen students—and this was one of those. Thanks @bexmillar.bsky.social, @lucyosler.bsky.social and staff and students at @cardiffphilosophy.bsky.social! (It was not sad at all)

Absolute peak academia at our sad philosophy workshop! The cosiest and kindest contemplation of exbots & heartbreak, grief & negative relations, and AI psychosis that you could wish for. Thanks @bexmillar.bsky.social, @lopezcantero.bsky.social & our lovely participants 🖤

hope we can do a part 2 👀

Urbanism evening with the @academyofurbanism.bsky.social. Norman+Fosters’ Spencer de Grey discussed urban interventions across Europe. One of the takeaways is that urban design needs to look beyond the place that is intervened itself, looking also at connections & surroundings + consultations

Please join me, @lucyosler.bsky.social, and @lopezcantero.bsky.social for our Sad Philosophy Workshop next Friday! Sign up info below.

I am advertising two PhD positions in philosophy -- one for a domestic student, one for an international student. Both positions are 1 + 3 years, meaning that the first year is an MRes and the next three years are for the PhD.

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100 papers that shaped our thinking: Eating meat and eating people. The Royal Institute of Philosophy: celebrating 100 years, 1925-2025. royalinstitutephilosophy.org

What's the moral difference between eating meat and eating people? In this paper from 1978, Cora Diamond explores the issues. As one of the 100 Papers That Shaped Our Thinking, we've made it available to download for free (click Save PDF): www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

#philosophy #ethics

Absolute nerd dream of finishing a workshop on local normative theory with a city tour of Manchester led academics from the UOM’s Urban Lab

The Future of Practical Ethics
IDEA The Ethics Centre, University of Leeds
8th - 10th September 2025

Keynote Speakers:
• Clare Chambers (Cambridge)
• Helen Frowe (Stockholm)
• Elselijn Kingma (KCL)

REGISTRATION NOW OPEN

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You might be able to tell I am a little bit obsessed with the philosophical dimensions of road safety as of late (bike lanes, SUVs, traffic lights, you name it).

By the way, The Future of Practical Ethics at IDEA Centre (Leeds) is still open for registration: conferences.leeds.ac.uk/the-future-o...

The pose and smile at the end after putting CPR down. Also arguably the most dudery books they could choose. Bravo to the PR person, 10/10 comedic trolling

#Booktok, listen up! Vogue’s Summer 2025 cover star #HaileyBieber has a few beach reads perfect for your next vacation. Tap the link in bio to watch more of Bieber’s episode of #InTheBag. TikTok video by Vogue

Funniest clip I have watched in ages. Not so much the doubts of Hailey Bieber reading hard philosophy but the fact that these are portrayed as ‘summer reads’ that she carries in her bag, for Vogue. “I’ve read this 5 or 6 times” (FN), “I’ve taken a lot of notes from this one” (CPR)

Gentrification, migration, and non-material injustice Gentrification can harm residents at a personal and emotional level, even when they are not physically displaced. Recognising these non-material harms as a source of wrongful ‘phenomenological disp...

I couldn’t publish it OA but the first 50 people to download it here get it free, in case someone wants to read and doesn’t have access:

The solution is not to restrict migration or to disperse migrants, but to make sure that deprived communities are not only not worse off, but are made better off by shouldering these burdens. Listen to poor people and improve their communities so they can all benefit (residents and newcomers)/5

My proposal draws from Francisco Gallegos’s view of affective injustice to show that although hosting needy migrants is a requirement of justice, deprived communities are treated unfairly by bearing the affective burdens entailed by this duty despite already being burdened themselves/4

Then, I show that two existing views on the wrongs of gentrification mistakenly treat people who see their communities changed by the arrival of needy migrants as victims of a tragic harm. I think we should do better so that these people’s complaints do not get uptake by the right only/3

The first part of the paper defends the analogy between gentrification and migration, and shows that we should instead differentiate between privileged mobility (white gentrifiers, expats, digital nomads) and needy mobility (Black or queer gentrifiers, needy migrants)/2

My first paper on urban justice is out. It draws an analogy between gentrification and mass incoming migration, and shows that neighbourhoods receiving large numbers of needy migrants are treated unfairly, even if hosting needy migrants IS a requirement of justice/1

One of my reviewing rules is never to review a paper on a day I got a rejection.

This paper from 7 years ago suddenly relevant again in the face of Trump's new "review" of Smithsonian exhibitions. #philsky

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😭 but also 🤣

Haha thanks I will update accordingly if somethings comes up but I think the Sinclair will remain unbeaten

However it cannot beat this absolute gem which is my favourite find so far. So brilliantly attention seeking that it would probably deserve its own post in the Daily Nous. Not that the handles are UNDER your legs and it has pedals. Just in love w the Sinclair

A steam lorry. I don’t know what this is really but I could consider becoming a quirky staple on Cambridge roads driving it

Why would you want a bus stop if you don’t have a bu—don’t worry I got you covered, shame that ‘charming teenagers’ wrecked it but a great project to restore if Labour doesn’t fix the housing crisis. If you want something more finished there is actually another bus for sale by a different person

Because we were moving (and a super stressful move), this year we won’t really go on holiday, so instead I am passing my time finding absurd and amazing things in Facebook Marketplace. Let’s start strong. A bus stop:

Excited to be editing this SI on affective injustice with @alfredarcher.bsky.social and @joelkrueger.com for EPSSE’s open access journal Passion.

Submissions open until 30 September, so if you need a break from your summer break, do think about sending us something!

#philsky

Photo credit yours truly at Central Park

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Featuring the letter from @ethicaldating.bsky.social

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