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Experimental Philosophy @xphilosopher.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

There has been a huge amount of experimental philosophy research on the concept of KNOWLEDGE This research finds that the ordinary concept doesn’t work at all the way philosophers said it does A thread with some examples: 🧵

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Constant Bonard @cbonard.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

🔥We’re hiring! Fabrice Teroni and I are looking for a PhD student to join our project "The Affective Nature of Belief" at the University of Geneva. 4-year fellowship, ideally starting in *March 2027*. *Application deadline*: November 15, 2026. Details: drive.switch.ch/index.php/s/...

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European Philosophical Society for the Study of Emotions @epsse.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Check our these excellent articles by Benjamin Matheson and Alba Montes Sanchez! Both use parenthood to explore very different questions: while Matheson's original three-book review dives into anxiety, guilt & pride, Montes Sanchez discusses how emotion helps knowing what we really want.

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Vol. 3 No. 2 (2025): Volume 3, Issue 2 | Passion: Journal of the European Philosophical Society for the Study of Emotions

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Benjamin Matheson @benjaminmatheson.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Coming soon!

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Springer @springer.springernature.com · 24/09/2026

Valence, Mixed Feelings, and Appraisal Processes 👉 #PsycSci #AffectSci

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Constant Bonard @cbonard.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

New paper out in *Topoi*, co-authored with Daniel Dukes and David Sander! We explore how appraisal theories of emotion can explain valence and, in particular, mixed feelings—how a single affective experience can feel good and bad at the same time. Open access: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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Thomas Talhelm @thomastalhelm.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

🚨 It's published! 🚨 This is the big one. 100 cultures, 12,000 people, 108 researchers. Why people (and our most-used surveys) get collectivism wrong and how to fix it. www.nature.com/articles/s41... @natureportfolio.nature.com

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Constant Bonard @cbonard.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

🫣Don't be ashamed to check out the latest episode of our Philosophy of Emotion Podcast 🎙️

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Constant Bonard @cbonard.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

🧟‍♂️Ever screamed at a horror movie while knowing perfectly well the monster wasn’t real? If you were genuinely afraid, why didn’t you run out of the theater? The great Andrea Scarantino joins me to discuss such questions in the latest episode of the Philosophy of Emotion Podcast 🧛‍♂️

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Episode 10: Andrea Scarantino on how emotions about fictional objects motivate behaviour

Ever screamed at a horror movie while knowing perfectly well that the monster isn’t real?

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Constant Bonard @cbonard.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Super glad that my paper presenting my Belief–Desire Appraisal Theory of Emotion is now published! 🥳 It defends a simple idea: #emotions are driven by #appraisals, and appraisals themselves are operations on #belief–desire pairs. Open access: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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Constant Bonard @cbonard.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

🫀 Nouvel épisode du podcast *Philosophie des Émotions* 🎙️ J'y discute avec *Christine Tappolet* de sa "nouvelle" théorie des émotions – écoutez l'épisode pour savoir pourquoi je mets des guillemets ;)

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Constant Bonard @cbonard.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

💚 Ever wondered about the role that emotions can play for environmental mitigation? Listen to my take on this question in this podcast episode 💚

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Florian Cova @floriancova.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

Dans le cadre de la rédaction d'un ouvrage sur le thème des connards, je fais passer un petit questionnaire sur votre conception des connards et les types de connards que vous avez pu croiser dans votre vie. N'hésitez à le remplir et le partager : fpse.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

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Qualtrics Survey | Qualtrics Experience Management

Etude sur les c*nnards

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Constant Bonard @cbonard.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Très fier d'avoir participé à cette ouvrage avec un chapitre sur les émotions musicales 🎶

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Constant Bonard @cbonard.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Nouvel article tout public : "La musique à l’ère de l’IA : Y a-t-il des raisons d’être optimiste ?" J’aborde la question de l’IA dans la création musicale avec un enthousiasme prudent, en me concentrant sur les nouvelles formes de pratiques artistiques qui peuvent en émerger.

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La musique à l’ère de l’IA : Y a-t-il des raisons d’être optimiste ?

Constant Bonnard met l'IA dans la balance, et vous recommande les pommes jazz et l'émission How To With John Wilson.

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Constant Bonard @cbonard.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

😡 Is anger always hostile? 🤬 🎙️ In this new episode of The Philosophy of Emotion Podcast, I'm joined by Laura Silva @proflaurasilva.bsky.social who challenges a deeply entrenched assumption about anger and shows what we miss when we treat it as purely destructive. 🎧 Listen now on all platforms

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Episode 7: Is Anger Always Hostile? With Laura Silva

Laura Silva joins Constant Bonard to discuss anger, challenging the common assumption that it is essentially a hostile emotion.

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Constant Bonard @cbonard.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Here is a preprint of my new article "Are Emotions Key to Political Engagement? The Case of Environmental Mitigation"   Spoiler: They aren't 🤷‍♂️ Based on psychological theories of emotion, I cast doubt on ambitious expectations about the power of emotions for political engagement.

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Constant Bonard @cbonard.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Do emotions drive political engagement?  A busy pizzeria takes many orders and makes many pizzas, but its busyness doesn’t *cause* these, except via feedback effects. Likewise, I argue here, emotions correlate with new evaluations and motivations, but don’t *cause* them, except via feedback effects.

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Are Emotions Key to Political Engagement? The Case of Environmental Mitigation - Review of Philosophy and Psychology

Review of Philosophy and Psychology - Emotions are widely taken to play an important role in motivating political engagement. Activists and scholars often emphasize emotional responses such as...

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Constant Bonard @cbonard.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Nouvel épisode de _Philosophy of Emotion_ 🎙️ — en français ! Avec Julien Deonna et Fabrice Teroni, nous discutons de **l’attitudinalisme**, la fameuse théorie des émotions qu’ils développent ensemble depuis plus de 15 ans 🫀 open.substack.com/pub/thecogsp...:

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Episode 6: Julien Deonna and Fabrice Teroni on Emotions as Attitudes (en français).

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Constant Bonard @cbonard.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

✨💖✨ Romantic love? What is that? Listen to the latest episode of The Philosophy of Emotion Podcast to find out what @lopezcantero.bsky.social has to say!

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Guillaume Champeau @guillaume.champeau.info · 08/07/2025

Ah ouais, les barrières sont tombées.

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Constant Bonard @cbonard.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

Check out the new episode of our podcast 😃

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Kevin Zollman @kevinzollman.com · 20/06/2025

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.

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Phil Corlett @philcorlett.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

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 nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...

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Constant Bonard @cbonard.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

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 3: Alfred Archer on Affective Artifacts and Affective Injustice

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Constant Bonard @cbonard.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

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...

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Episode 2: Krista Thomason on Shame and Negative Emotions

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Knowledge in Crisis @knowledgecrisis.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

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.

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Philosophical Psychology @journalphp.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

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

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Constant Bonard @cbonard.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

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 :)

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Benjamin Matheson @benjaminmatheson.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

The first episode of the philosophy of emotion podcast is available now! Episode 1: David Shoemaker on Amusement open.substack.com/pub/thecogsp...

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Episode 1: David Shoemaker on Amusement

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Constant Bonard @cbonard.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

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. Photo by Alizée Quinche

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Constant Bonard @cbonard.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

🎧 Ben Matheson and I are launching this new podcast series. Stay tuned!

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Jonathan Birch @birchlse.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

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) www.lse.ac.uk/News/Latest-...

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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.

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Stefano Palminteri @stepalminteri.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

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: osf.io/preprints/ps...

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Constant Bonard @cbonard.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

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

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Constant Bonard @cbonard.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

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

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Constant Bonard @cbonard.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

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 🤖

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Constant Bonard @cbonard.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Very happy to be among these 28 others 😃

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Simon Brown @simonabbrown.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

When and why are motivational trade-offs evidence of sentience? New paper with @birchlse.bsky.social forthcoming at Phil. Trans. Roy. Soc. B and available to download for free here: philpapers.org/rec/BROWAW-10 (1/11)

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Constant Bonard @cbonard.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Totally agree with this! I highlight such "justaic" problems in this paper published last year and discuss in some detail the mental-behavioral alternative: philpapers.org/rec/BONCAA-3

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Jan Pfänder @janpfa.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Out in @naturehumbehav.bsky.social Can people tell true from false news? Yes! Our meta-analysis shows that people rate true news as more accurate than false news (d = 1.12) and were better at spotting false news than at recognizing true news (d = 0.32). www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Constant Bonard @cbonard.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

I think this is worth a reminder for those who missed it 😃

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Michelle Wille @duckswabber.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Between 2019 and 2023, researchers paid $8.968 billion to make papers open access. Imagine what else could be done with this money if it wasnt paid to for profit publishing companies... 👉 arxiv.org/abs/2407.16551

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François Jaquet @francoisjaquet.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Dernière étape: correction des épreuves!

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Magali Reghezza @magalireghezza.eurosky.social · 14/02/2025

« - Il y a une submersion migratoire. - les faits : c’est faux. - oui, mais les Français ont un sentiment de submersion migratoire. - les faits : c’est faux. - oui, mais il y a un sentiment que les Français ont un sentiment de submersion migratoire. » Les scientifiques : 🤯🤯🤯.

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Rob Sica @robsica.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

"Should we value compassion, equality, and relieving suffering as much as we do? Should power, creativity, and magnificence always be secondary? These are searching, uncomfortable questions."

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Nietzsche on values

Values, and a critique of values, are at the center of Nietzsche's philosophical work. He famously proposes to launch a “revaluation” of values. But this raises a number of philosophical questions ab...

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