Constant Bonard
@cbonard.bsky.social
• Philosophy researcher at U. of Bern, CH
• Work on communication and emotion – slurs, implicatures, speech acts, natural meaning, values, human-AI interaction, propaganda, music, emotional appeal, …
• Website: https://sites.google.com/view/constant-bonard
• Work on communication and emotion – slurs, implicatures, speech acts, natural meaning, values, human-AI interaction, propaganda, music, emotional appeal, …
• Website: https://sites.google.com/view/constant-bonard
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Constant Bonard
@cbonard.bsky.social
· Jul 9
Episode 4 of The Philosophy of Emotion Podcast is now available! Prof. Emanuela Ceva (University of Geneva) talks with @cbonard.bsky.social about institutional dysfunctions and emotions.
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Check out the new episode of our podcast 😃
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Ah ouais, les barrières sont tombées.
July 8, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Ah ouais, les barrières sont tombées.
Check out the new episode of our podcast 😃
Episode 4 of The Philosophy of Emotion Podcast is now available! Prof. Emanuela Ceva (University of Geneva) talks with @cbonard.bsky.social about institutional dysfunctions and emotions.
open.substack.com/pub/thecogsp...
open.substack.com/pub/thecogsp...
July 9, 2025 at 9:22 AM
Check out the new episode of our podcast 😃
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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.
This is wrong, however.
June 20, 2025 at 6:43 AM
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.
This is wrong, however.
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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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June 14, 2025 at 10:41 PM
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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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.
@alfredarcher.bsky.social joins @benjaminmatheson.bsky.social to discuss affective artifacts and affective injustice.
Episode 3: Alfred Archer on Affective Artifacts and Affective Injustice
The Philosophy of Emotion Podcast
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June 8, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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.
@alfredarcher.bsky.social joins @benjaminmatheson.bsky.social to discuss affective artifacts and affective injustice.
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...
Episode 2: Krista Thomason on Shame and Negative Emotions
The Philosophy of Emotion Podcast
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May 10, 2025 at 8:40 AM
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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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.
May 6, 2025 at 7:01 AM
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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Free access! Jacob Berger reviews "The Epistemic Role of #Consciousness" (OUP) by Declan Smithies doi.org/10.1080/0951... #vol38issue4 #philsky #booksky
April 30, 2025 at 7:04 AM
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 :)
"Écrans : les grands décerveleurs ?"
L'article de @mmdejantee.bsky.social détricote ce mythe tourné aujourd'hui à toutes les sauces, avec l'aide de scientifiques comme @severhel.bsky.social ou
@sachaltay.bsky.social
A lire ici : www.scienceshumaines.com/ecrans-les-g...
L'article de @mmdejantee.bsky.social détricote ce mythe tourné aujourd'hui à toutes les sauces, avec l'aide de scientifiques comme @severhel.bsky.social ou
@sachaltay.bsky.social
A lire ici : www.scienceshumaines.com/ecrans-les-g...
Écrans : les grands décerveleurs ?
On les accuse de nous avoir rendus dépressifs, anxieux, addict, crédules, les technologies numériques sont-elles vraiment responsables de tous les maux de la société ?
www.scienceshumaines.com
April 30, 2025 at 8:53 AM
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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The first episode of the philosophy of emotion podcast is available now!
Episode 1: David Shoemaker on Amusement open.substack.com/pub/thecogsp...
Episode 1: David Shoemaker on Amusement open.substack.com/pub/thecogsp...
Episode 1: David Shoemaker on Amusement
The Philosophy of Emotion Podcast
open.substack.com
April 8, 2025 at 7:02 PM
The first episode of the philosophy of emotion podcast is available now!
Episode 1: David Shoemaker on Amusement open.substack.com/pub/thecogsp...
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.
Photo by Alizée Quinche
Photo by Alizée Quinche
April 7, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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
Photo by Alizée Quinche
🎧 Ben Matheson and I are launching this new podcast series. Stay tuned!
Episode 1 of the Philosophy of Emotion Podcast launches this Tuesday, April 8th with David Shoemaker on Amusement open.substack.com/pub/thecogsp...
Episode 1: David Shoemaker on Amusement
Recorded live and in person at the Annual Research Forum of the Geneva Centre for Affective Sciences, Prof.
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April 6, 2025 at 7:41 PM
🎧 Ben Matheson and I are launching this new podcast series. Stay tuned!
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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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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.
www.lse.ac.uk
March 25, 2025 at 10:42 AM
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-...
www.lse.ac.uk/News/Latest-...
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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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March 26, 2025 at 7:33 AM
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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For my Paris friends interested in AI: I definitely recommend going to this event and following the AI-Phi group 🤖
🎂 AI-Phi Session 20: A Causerie on Reasoning ✨
New format: interactive discussion in the spirit of 18th century salons! Bring your thoughts & questions 💡
🗓 Date: 20 March 2025
⏰ Time: 7 PM
📍 Location: Sony CSL, Paris
📅 Details: ai-phi.github.io/posts/sessio...
New format: interactive discussion in the spirit of 18th century salons! Bring your thoughts & questions 💡
🗓 Date: 20 March 2025
⏰ Time: 7 PM
📍 Location: Sony CSL, Paris
📅 Details: ai-phi.github.io/posts/sessio...
Session 20 🎂 - First Causerie Session - Reasoning
Short presentation(s) followed by collective discussions on reasoning in AI systems. We will celebrate this 20th session with a cake 🥳
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March 19, 2025 at 1:20 PM
For my Paris friends interested in AI: I definitely recommend going to this event and following the AI-Phi group 🤖
Another cool contribution to what I call the « mental-behavioral methodology » for studying AI psychology. Kudos 🦾🤖
Very happy to see our paper (@nicolasyax.bsky.social and @anllohernan.bsky.social) in this list. We made the risky choice to invent new tests, validate in humans, run control experiments, etc, at the risk of not being 'fast enough', but apparently it paid off 🙂
doi.org/10.1038/s44271-024-00091-8
doi.org/10.1038/s44271-024-00091-8
March 12, 2025 at 10:59 AM
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 🤖
Happy to share the manuscript if you’re interested 🤖
March 8, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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 🤖
Happy to share the manuscript if you’re interested 🤖
Very happy to be among these 28 others 😃
Preprint of "The Cognitive Foundations of Fictional Stories" by Edgar Dubourg Nicolas BAumard and 28 others:
"We hypothesize that fictional stories are highly successful in human cultures partly because they activate evolved cognitive
mechanism"
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"We hypothesize that fictional stories are highly successful in human cultures partly because they activate evolved cognitive
mechanism"
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OSF
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March 3, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Very happy to be among these 28 others 😃
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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)
March 1, 2025 at 12:58 PM
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)
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
February 21, 2025 at 11:37 AM
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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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...
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...
February 21, 2025 at 10:33 AM
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...
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...
I think this is worth a reminder for those who missed it 😃
If you're into emotions, don't miss this podcast where Andrea Scarantino discusses his amazing, monumental, and extremely helpful work as the editor of the seminal "Emotion Theory", the 62-chapter new bible for the field, featuring 101 top emotion scholars newbooksnetwork.com/the-routledg...
Andrea Scarantino, "Emotion Theory: The Routledge Comprehensive Guide" (Routledge, 2024) - New Books Network
newbooksnetwork.com
February 18, 2025 at 1:10 PM
I think this is worth a reminder for those who missed it 😃
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"Emotion in Nonverbal Communication", or:
When is an alarm call like an emoji? 🙃
Review from @thibaudgruber.bsky.social @ebriefer.bsky.social et al.
#prattle 💬
#bioacoustics
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When is an alarm call like an emoji? 🙃
Review from @thibaudgruber.bsky.social @ebriefer.bsky.social et al.
#prattle 💬
#bioacoustics
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February 15, 2025 at 3:32 PM
"Emotion in Nonverbal Communication", or:
When is an alarm call like an emoji? 🙃
Review from @thibaudgruber.bsky.social @ebriefer.bsky.social et al.
#prattle 💬
#bioacoustics
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
When is an alarm call like an emoji? 🙃
Review from @thibaudgruber.bsky.social @ebriefer.bsky.social et al.
#prattle 💬
#bioacoustics
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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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
👉 arxiv.org/abs/2407.16551
January 27, 2025 at 12:33 AM
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
👉 arxiv.org/abs/2407.16551