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Lucy Osler

@lucyosler.bsky.social
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Philosopher at University of Exeter, 4e and phenomenological approaches to AI, digital technology, online sociality, emotions, phenomenological psychopathology, feminism. she/they #philosophy #philsky www.lucyosler.com | www.projectemote.com

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Michael Rea @michaelreand.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
New paper by Jess Hocking, @lucyosler.bsky.social and me on the phenomenology of anorexia: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Disrupted embodiment: empirically assessing phenomenological accounts of anorexia nervosa - Journal of Eating Disorders
Background Recent philosophical reflection on eating disorders has taken a phenomenological turn. These approaches have focused on the experiences of those with eating disorders, many taking as their ...
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Lucy Osler @lucyosler.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Really chuffed to have got to written with @lvself.bsky.social on endometriosis and the problem of (under)diagnosis. Hopefully the first of our collabs!
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University and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk · 15/07/2026
"Humanities are being extinguished by university bosses across the country. We desperately need an emergency rescue package to stop the death-rattle of Britain's great universities." @drjogrady.bsky.social in the Guardian 👇 www.theguardian.com/education/20...
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Humanities among degrees being ‘extinguished’ by hard-up universities
Exclusive: Experts fear rise in education ‘cold spots’ and social immobility as 4,000 academic posts lost in one year
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Cardiff Philosophy @cardiffphilosophy.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
#philsky #booksky Depraved book event Daisy Dixon in conversation with Jess Davies Book Space Cardiff 23 July, 6.30pm Details and tickets:
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Depraved Event ticket
Join us for an evening in conversation with Daisy Dixon to talk about her new book Depraved : The Story of Dangerous Art.  When: 23/7/26 18:30 start (doors 18:15) Where: 26a Crwys Road, CF24 4NL ~~~~~...
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Something deeply troubling & shocking is happening at Exeter University*, where a mass cull of staff is planned, even though it's in surplus. No good justifications given. @jamesgdyke.info provides the details: www.technosphere.earth/the-bonfire-... *Disclosure: I have a Visiting Fellowship here. +🧵
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The bonfire of the humanities
150 academic posts at the University of Exeter are to be cut, most in the humanities but also in social sciences, engineering and environmental sciences
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Exeter UCU @exeterucu.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
We're on Bluesky now! 🦋 Follow us here for updates, we're just getting started. @ucu.org.uk @exetergreens.bsky.social @exeterlabour.bsky.social Here are our six key messages:
'EXETER UCU: OUR SIX KEY MESSAGES

1. EXETER UNI'S FINANCES ARE STRONG. WE'VE LARGE CASH RESERVES (£200M IN 24/25). NEVER HAD A BUDGET DEFICIT. THIS 'CRISIS' IS MANUFACTURED.
2. EXECUTIVE PAY AT EXETER IS OUT OF CONTROL. IF JUST THE 16 HIGHEST-PAID EXECS CAPPED THEIR SALARY AT £120K, WE'D SAVE MORE MONEY THAN ALL THE CUTS TO ARCHAEOLOGY & HISTORY!
3. NO MEANINGFUL CONSULTATION, BUT A CONFUSED MESS: FAULTY AND INSUFFICIENT DATA, NO REAL DISCUSSION, AND AN IMPOSSIBLE, INSULTING AND UNREASONABLE TIMETABLE TO PUSH THIS THROUGH OVER THE SUMMER.
4. AN ALL-STAFF MEETING OF 600 STAFF RESOUNDINGLY VOTED NO CONFIDENCE IN VICE CHANCELLOR LISA ROBERTS (WHOSE PAY IS PUSHING £400K). WE BELIEVE THIS IS THE BIGGEST SINGLE VOTE BY ANY UNI STAFF IN THE HISTORY OF UK HE.
5. REDUNDANCIES ARE A MANAGEMENT CHOICE, NOT A FINANCIAL NECESSITY. THEY EVEN HAVE ALTERNATIVE COSTED PLANS WITH NO CUTS, BUT THINK IT'S EASIER TO GO FOR JOB LOSSES.
6. EXETER IS A FANTASTIC UNI, WITH WORLD CLASS RESEARCH, CREATIVE AND INSPIRING TEACHING, THOUGHTFUL AND IMAGINATIVE COMMUNITY OF STAFF AND STUDENTS. LET'S KEEP IT THAT WAY.'

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European Philosophical Society for the Study of Emotions @epsse.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
That’s a wrap! An enormous thank you to our incredible community of scholars across all career stages for making our annual conference collegial, fun & intellectually stimulating—bringing all their energy to the talks and saving some more for art, bbq & dancing in the middle of the heatwave 🖥️🎻⛪️🌭🪩
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Dr Francis Young @drfrancisyoung.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
If you asked me, off the top of my head, to name a non-Oxbridge university in England synonymous with excellence in the Humanities - I would probably think of Exeter first. This feels like a very deliberate, targeted and ideological Bonfire of the Humanities
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Ditte Marie Munch-Jurisic @dittemunch.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Next up is the panel on "Good girls, bad times" w Marie Wuth, @hkohpeiss.bsky.social and @lucyosler.bsky.social on historical and contemporary fascist imaginaries of the "good girl', heteropessism and the "good girl love" (Beauvoir) we see in the trad wife movement & AI #philsky @epsse.bsky.social
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Richard Moore @richardmoore.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
The Philosophy department at Exeter is exceptional. It has both a concentration of world leading researchers in the philosophy of the biological and cognitive sciences, and a unique departmental profile in the UK. It would be a catastrophic loss to the UK philosophy scene.
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European Philosophical Society for the Study of Emotions @epsse.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Getting ready for the EPSSE annual meeting at the very picturesque town of Eichstätt, where our president Imke von Maur has put together a fantastic pre-conference workshop on philosophy of place — don’t worry if you have missed it, it will turn into a special issue of Passion!
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Ditte Marie Munch-Jurisic @dittemunch.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
@epsse.bsky.social here we come! Looking so much forward to our panel with @eabyrne.bsky.social and Paula Muhr!
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Lucy Osler @lucyosler.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Will AI do more harm than good to the UK's mental health? It was a huge honour to be invited to take part in the Maudsley Christmas Debate at KCL in Decemeber 2025. You can now see the write up of the main points of debate in the BMJ: www.bmj.com/content/393/...
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Will AI do more harm than good to the UK's mental health?
The benefits and harms of AI to mental health are constantly in the headlines. Iain McGilchrist and Lucy Osler say that this is warranted given widespread public access to chatbots. But Charlotte Blea...
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Lucy Osler @lucyosler.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Our volume For, Against, Together is officially available online with Cambridge University Press! Together our incredible contributors rethink antagonistic political emotions in our current climate. www.cambridge.org/core/books/f... Here’s a taste of what’s inside 🧵
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For, Against, Together
Cambridge Core - Social Psychology - For, Against, Together
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Lucy Osler @lucyosler.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Had a great conversation with Jackie Snow about chatbots’ memory function and the way their personalised callbacks to information and stories you have shared about yourself can calcify your own self-narratives and self-understanding (which I’ve elsewhere described as narrative railroading) 🤖✒️🛤️
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Cardiff Philosophy @cardiffphilosophy.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Many congratulations to Dr Anneli Jefferson who has been awarded a ✨ Leverhulme Fellowship ✨ to work on her book 📕 Responsibility Through the Lifespan Llongyfarchiadau mawr, Anneli! #philsky @annelijefferson.bsky.social
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Adrian Currie @adrian-currie.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Exeter’s got a two-year teaching stint for someone into philosophy of data and related - the job’s pretty plush as far as non-permanent ones go - and Exeter is an amazing place to do this kind of philosophy - please pass around! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQZ094/l... #philsci
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Lecturer in Philosophy or Sociology of Data and Artificial Intelligence at University of Exeter
Apply for the Lecturer in Philosophy or Sociology of Data and Artificial Intelligence role on jobs.ac.uk, the top job board for academic positions in higher education. View details and apply now.
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Lisa Bortolotti @lisabortolotti.com · 20/03/2026
At the AI psychosis, Hearing Voices, & Suicidality workshop, Lucy Osler talks about the interaction between users & chatbots, the narration process that shapes our experiences, the emotional import of the evaluative lens that AI imposes on distressing situations #BPF2026 #philosophymatters #philsky
Lucy Osler at the Exchange
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Lucy Osler @lucyosler.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Celebrating the sunshine finally emerging in Exeter with Another Sad Philosophy Workshop today!
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David Ekdahl @ekdahlprimafacie.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
New paper in @autisminadulthood.bsky.social exploring autistic adults embodied experiences of offline and online sociality. The paper is co-authored with @joelkrueger.com, and funded by @carlsbergfondet.dk. #Autism #Neurodiversity #Phenomenology #Embodiment journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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University of Exeter News @uniofexeternews.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Dr @lucyosler.bsky.social from @exeterspspa.bsky.social spoke to BBC Radio Devon about why people turn to AI to find love and build relationships❤️ www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
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BBC Radio Devon - Caroline Densley, 04/03/2026
Caroline gets Devon talking and celebrates the best of what's going on in the county.
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Cardiff Philosophy @cardiffphilosophy.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
#philsky Call for papers :: Speech and Society: Contemporary Philosophy of Language Keynote Speakers: Professor Emma Borg Professor Jennifer Mather Saul Conference dates: 24-25 June Abstract deadline: 2 April Full details:
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Speech and Society: Contemporary Philosophy of Language
The Cardiff University Philosophy Department will hold a conference on “Speech and Society: Contemporary Philosophy of Language” taking place 24th – 25th of June. In recent years, t...
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Cardiff Philosophy @cardiffphilosophy.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Dr Daisy Dixon's new book –– DEPRAVED: The Story of Dangerous Art –– an analysis of the varieties of immoral art and the ways that we should respond to it –– is now available to preorder! Waterstones are offering a 25% discount until 20 February – used code FEB26: bit.ly/Dixon-DSDA #philsky
Bright red book cover with the title and author's name in black.
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Lucy Osler @lucyosler.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Now out in Philosophy & Technology! link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Hallucinating with AI: Distributed Delusions and “AI Psychosis” - Philosophy & Technology
Philosophy & Technology - There is much discussion of the false outputs that generative AI systems such as ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, DeepSeek, and Grok create. In popular terminology, these have...
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Leda Berio @ledaberio.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Currently on a bus in Bristol, heading to this awesome event -- great poster, for starters!
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Lucy Osler @lucyosler.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Just one week til our “Social AI: A Philosophy Workshop” 🌟We will be joined by Pii Telakivi, Rob Clowes, Kris Goffin, Shahd Omar, Kesavan Thenagopal, Mike Barnes, Mercedes Corredor, Ben White, Leda Bario, Allister Lee, Àger Pérez Casanovas, Shane Glackin, Tom Roberts, & Joel Krueger 🌟
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Cardiff Philosophy @cardiffphilosophy.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
✨ Many congratulations to Thom Hamer, whose PhD viva was this afternoon and was passed with flying colours! Thom’s thesis title is: Rethinking the Absurdity of Life: A Metaexistential Inquiry Llongyfarchiadau mawr, Dr Hamer! Gefeliciteerd! 🎓
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European Philosophical Society for the Study of Emotions @epsse.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
The CFP for the one-day pre-conference workshop “The Power of (Dis-)Placing: Affect, Practice and the Political” is open until the 15th of feb. Send your abstracts (500w) to imke.von.maur[at]ku.de with the subject ‘EPSSE 2026 Pre-conference’
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Sven Nyholm @svennyholm.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Coming soon: my new book *The Ethics of Artificial Intelligence: A Philosophical Introduction*. More info - including three very generous blurbs from @davidgunkel.bsky.social, @briandavidearp.bsky.social, & Crystal L'Hote, PhD - here: hackettpublishing.com/new-forthcom... #aiethics #philosophy
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Orangetronic @orangetronic.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
“feral gossip” is such an excellent coinage from @lucyosler.bsky.social and @joelkrueger.com to describe the way LLMs amplify gossip about real people as they pass slop back and forth between training sets. www.vice.com/en/article/a...
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AI Chatbots Are Quietly Trading Gossip About People With Zero Fact-Checking
AI chatbots already say questionable things to humans. Now, they may be swapping those same questionable takes with each other.
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Lucy Osler @lucyosler.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
The AI gossip paper @joelkrueger.com and I wrote got picked up by Vice! We argue that chatbots generate gossip about people and consider how this gossip becomes ‘feral’ without the social constraints that usually moderate human rumor-spreading 🗣️🤖💬🫢 www.vice.com/en/article/a...
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AI Chatbots Are Quietly Trading Gossip About People With Zero Fact-Checking
AI chatbots already say questionable things to humans. Now, they may be swapping those same questionable takes with each other.
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Tom Roberts @tomroberts.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
Daisy Dixon and I have a friendly-critical review of Dominic Lopes’s *Aesthetic Injustice* out in the new issue of Ethics. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
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Lopes, Dominic McIver. Aesthetic Injustice. Oxford University Press, 2024. Pp. 208. $100.00 (cloth). | Ethics: Vol 136, No 2
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Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience @kingsioppn.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
We’re at the 63rd Maudsley Debate on ‘The Chatbot will see you now: This house believes AI will do more harm than good to the nation's mental health. #MaudsleyDebate
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Lucy Osler @lucyosler.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Loving the anachronistic mood of getting ready for a Christmas debate later today! Paired with a good old fashioned risk of a family argument, as my dad’s attending 🫣 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/63rd-mauds...
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63rd Maudsley Debate
The Chatbot will see you now: This house believes AI will do more harm than good to the nation's mental health.
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Tom Roberts @tomroberts.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Three AHRC PhD Scholarships available for Humanities subjects at Exeter, including Philosophy! February deadline, see link for details: www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin...
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PhD: AHRC Studentship | University of Exeter
Project descriptionThe University of Exeter is offering up to three fully funded AHRC doctoral studentships and training and development opportunities across a range of the AHRC’s disciplines for cand...
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Lucy Osler @lucyosler.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
Cheeky little chapter on Knowing oneself with and through AI for an edited volume forthcoming in 2026 🤗 Had fun playing around with the move from Clark and Chalmers’ Otto to Rob Clowes’ Cloud-Otto to my LLM-Otto 📓☁️🤖
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Pablo Fernandez Velasco @pfvelasco.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
Really excited to be organising this one. Such a fantastic group of speakers. I can’t wait to discuss with them about what atmospheres are, how they unfold and why they matter. With @lucyosler.bsky.social @keithallenyork.bsky.social @reaveyp.bsky.social @joelkrueger.com @reaveyp.bsky.social
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Ben Alderson-Day @aldersonday.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
New from the band formerly known as Hearing the Voice...a short paper about felt presence and early psychosis. We report some basic links to things like fear and quoted examples from our "Voices in Psychosis" study 1/3 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Experiences of felt presence in first episode psychosis - Schizophrenia
Schizophrenia - Experiences of felt presence in first episode psychosis
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Lucy Osler @lucyosler.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
Abstract deadline tomorrow if anyone is interested in joining us in Exeter in February to talk all things Social AI!
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Lucy Osler @lucyosler.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Our sense of reality is intimately entwined with our interactions with other people. What happens when those interactions are instead with social AI? See my piece on (so-called) ‘AI-induced psychosis’ in The Conversation theconversation.com/ai-induced-p...
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AI-induced psychosis: the danger of humans and machines hallucinating together
We’ve always relied on friends and family to confirm our sense of reality. Now we’re increasingly expecting AIs to do it instead.
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Lucy Osler @lucyosler.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
✨CFA✨ I’m hosting a workshop on Social AI at the Uni of Exeter, generously funded by the Society of Applied Philosophy (10&11 Feb). If you fancy joining us to present your work, please submit an abstract! Confirmed speakers: Rob Clowes, Pii Telakivi, Joel Krueger, Tom Roberts, & me. #philsky
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European Philosophical Society for the Study of Emotions @epsse.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Three weeks left to submit to our conference in June 2026 -- submit your abstract via this form!
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EPSSE 2026 - Abstract Submission
The call for abstracts for our 2026 annual conference is now open! We invite submissions for: Individual presentations (which can be co-presented) (up to 500 words) Group panel sessions (a summary of ...
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Lucy Osler @lucyosler.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
✨CFA✨ I’m hosting a workshop on Social AI at the Uni of Exeter, generously funded by the Society of Applied Philosophy (10&11 Feb). If you fancy joining us to present your work, please submit an abstract! Confirmed speakers: Rob Clowes, Pii Telakivi, Joel Krueger, Tom Roberts, & me. #philsky
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Cardiff Philosophy @cardiffphilosophy.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
🎈Book launch! The Penguin Book of Existentialist Philosophy edited by Jonathan Webber Wednesday 12 November 2025 : 18:00 - 19:30 Oat & Bean, 26 Park Place, Cardiff CF10 3BA Everyone is welcome! No need to register. Just turn up!
Detail from the book's cover art.
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Lucy Osler @lucyosler.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
Getting packed up for my visit to the Human Abilities Center in Berlin 🤗 among other things, I’ll be running this awesome workshop with Jan Slaby on ‘The Self as a Political Problem’ - check out the amazing speaker list and do sign up if you want to join us (limited spots available) ✨
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European Philosophical Society for the Study of Emotions @epsse.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
Check out the latest issue from affiliated journal Passion, the SI 'Emotions—More Like Stars or Constellations?', edited by Heidy Meriste and Bruno Mölder (Tartu). The issue asks how to categorize emotions, and how much weight should we put on the study of folk emotion concepts. Open access! /1
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The Critical AI Centre @craicexeter.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
CrAIC Launch Workshop is a success! 🌟 Our two-day event @exeter.ac.uk was packed full of great presentations and conversations. We're really excited to build on the connections made, grow our network, and push forward this research in Critical AI together. Quick wrap up of the sessions in thread 🧵
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The Critical AI Centre @craicexeter.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
It's been a great first day at the CrAIC launch workshop! 🌟 Two panels, nine speakers, lots of good discussion You can still sign up for our hybrid roundtable, tomorrow 2pm-3pm BST 👇 www.eventbrite.com/e/the-critic...
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Lucy Osler @lucyosler.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Philosophers of emotion, the call for abstracts for EPSSE 2026 is now open! Hosted at Eichstätt-Ingolstadt in Southern Germany by our lovely president Imke von Maur on 24-26 June 2026 💕 #philsky
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British Society of Aesthetics @britaesthetics.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
The British Society of Aesthetics seeks to appoint a paid, part-time Editor for its website, newsletter, and social media. Applicants will be expected to be UK-based postgraduates working in aesthetics. The deadline for applications is 22 October 2025.
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Position Available: BSA Website & Social Media Editor - The British Society of Aesthetics
The British Society of Aesthetics seeks to appoint a paid, part-time Editor for its website, newsletter, and social media. DUTIES OF POST WEBSITEThe Editor will be responsible for editing and maintain...
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