Rodrigo Díaz
@rodrigodiazxphi.bsky.social
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...
"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...
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...
philevents.org
October 29, 2025 at 10:35 PM
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...
"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...
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Final call for global collaborators on this replication collaboration on @bioxphi studies — moral psychologists and x-phi researchers wanted! especially based in SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE! global-bioXphi | moral science lab www.mscilab.com/globalbioxphi/
August 29, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Final call for global collaborators on this replication collaboration on @bioxphi studies — moral psychologists and x-phi researchers wanted! especially based in SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE! global-bioXphi | moral science lab www.mscilab.com/globalbioxphi/
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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
a penguin is sticking his head out of a hole next to a job application
ALT: a penguin is sticking his head out of a hole next to a job application
media.tenor.com
July 21, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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
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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...
'Positive review only': Researchers hide AI prompts in papers
Instructions in preprints from 14 universities highlight controversy on AI in peer review
asia.nikkei.com
July 19, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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...
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🎓 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!
Here's an overview of the key highlights of our academic activity and relevant information👇
🙃A RT is always appreciated!
July 11, 2025 at 8:41 AM
🎓 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!
Here's an overview of the key highlights of our academic activity and relevant information👇
🙃A RT is always appreciated!
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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....
June 26, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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....
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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...
Guest edited by the wonderful Laura Silva, Federico Lauria, and @arinapismenny.bsky.social ✨
Please make submissions through our website: passion-journal.org/about/submis...
June 26, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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...
Guest edited by the wonderful Laura Silva, Federico Lauria, and @arinapismenny.bsky.social ✨
Please make submissions through our website: passion-journal.org/about/submis...
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!
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.
www.erudit.org
June 22, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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!
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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...
Details found here👇
www.queensu.ca/grad-postdoc...
Queen’s Special U.S. Doctoral Recruitment Initiative | School of Graduate Studies and Postdoctoral AffairsDown arrowDown arrowDown arrowDown arrowDown arrowDown arrowDown arrowDown arrowDown arrowDown...
Queen’s University is a globally engaged, research-intensive institution dedicated to attracting and supporting exceptional PhD students who will significantly advance our research mission.
www.queensu.ca
June 5, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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...
Details found here👇
www.queensu.ca/grad-postdoc...
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👉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...
www.uc3m.es/formacion-pe...
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
www.uc3m.es
June 5, 2025 at 6:34 PM
👉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...
www.uc3m.es/formacion-pe...
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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
Not settling for indirect evidence or speculation, we went right to the source and checked experimentally.
philpapers.org/rec/LANCRI-3
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...
philpapers.org
April 24, 2025 at 11:44 AM
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
Not settling for indirect evidence or speculation, we went right to the source and checked experimentally.
philpapers.org/rec/LANCRI-3
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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 🧵
Sensory Horizons and the Functions of Conscious Vision | Behavioral and Brain Sciences | Cambridge Core
Sensory Horizons and the Functions of Conscious Vision
doi.org
April 21, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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 🧵
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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
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
@lastpositivist.bsky.social. Tyler Cowen echoes you
April 20, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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
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
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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
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...
euraxess.ec.europa.eu
April 6, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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
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📢 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
👩🔬 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
March 27, 2025 at 5:30 PM
📢 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
👩🔬 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
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📭 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...
🗓️ The conference will take place on 16th and 17th October at Granada, Spain.
@easpsalud.bsky.social @filolab.bsky.social
www.easp.es/congreso/eth...
International Conference Envolving Ethics for Envolving Minds
International Conference Envolving Ethics for Envolving Minds
www.easp.es
March 26, 2025 at 11:12 AM
📭 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...
🗓️ The conference will take place on 16th and 17th October at Granada, Spain.
@easpsalud.bsky.social @filolab.bsky.social
www.easp.es/congreso/eth...
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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...
Plazo de solicitud: hasta el 27 de marzo.
Ref. 1448. 👇
investigacion.ugr.es/sites/vic/in...
investigacion.ugr.es
March 17, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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...
Plazo de solicitud: hasta el 27 de marzo.
Ref. 1448. 👇
investigacion.ugr.es/sites/vic/in...
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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
Long answer: https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-mono/10.4324/9781003498032/unfair-emotions-jonas-blatter
#philsky #philosophy
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
www.taylorfrancis.com
March 5, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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
Long answer: https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-mono/10.4324/9781003498032/unfair-emotions-jonas-blatter
#philsky #philosophy
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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. 👇👇👇
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. 👇👇👇
February 11, 2025 at 8:12 AM
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. 👇👇👇
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. 👇👇👇
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Everyone welcome!
January 17, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Everyone welcome!
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...
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...
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...
doi.org
January 15, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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...
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...
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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)
We investigate the debate on what grounds epistemic normativity between epistemic instrumentalists and intrinsicalists. (1/4)
December 9, 2024 at 10:07 AM
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)
We investigate the debate on what grounds epistemic normativity between epistemic instrumentalists and intrinsicalists. (1/4)
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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
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
5th European Experimental Philosophy Conference
A group of experimental philosophers at the University of East Anglia
x-phi.uea.ac.uk
November 27, 2024 at 1:51 PM
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
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