Carme Isern-Mas
isernmas.bsky.social
Carme Isern-Mas
@isernmas.bsky.social
Associate Professor in Moral Philosophy at
@uib.cat . Moral psychology (moral emotions, moral motivation) and applied ethics (mental health, ethics of emotion).

Podcasts: https://beacons.ai/podcast_episodis
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New publication! ✨

Remember Jonah Hill asking Sarah Brady to stop modeling to respect his “boundaries”? Or an abusive boss recommending mindfulness after your complaints?

@almagro.bsky.social and I are now ready to tell you when and why therapy-speak might be wrong.

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I’m sharing an interview I recently did for the APA blog. @vlc-lab.bsky.social @filolab.bsky.social

Check it out!

blog.apaonline.org/2026/01/23/r...
Recently Published Book Spotlight: The Rise of Polarization: Affects, Politics, and Philosophy | Blog of the APA
Manuel Almagro is Assistant Professor in the Philosophy Department at the University of Valencia. He is the author of The Rise of Polarization: Affects, Politics and Philosophy, published with Routled...
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January 25, 2026 at 12:06 PM
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Por cierto, he escrito un libro para el CIS de Sociología Experimental. Si os interesa adentraros en el mundo de la experimentación con un enfoque muy aplicado, es vuestro libro. Teoría, ejemplos didácticos, explicaciones sin muchos rollos.
www.cis.es/es/w/sociolo...
Sociología Experimental. Métodos, teorías y aplicaciones
www.cis.es
January 22, 2026 at 3:13 PM
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Filosofía en español: Hoy escribo sobre chatbots post-ruptura en El Salto.
🤖Opinión | Chatbots para sustituir a tu ex: IA al servicio del amor normativo.

🖋 @lopezcantero.bsky.social 
🎨 Jaime Gracia.

https://elsal.to/45835
January 12, 2026 at 10:22 AM
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Call for papers open for a thematic workshop on phil of emotion at @uniofnottingham.bsky.social — deadline is next week! More details:
philevents.org/event/show/1...
January 9, 2026 at 5:54 PM
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Now available as a preprint: this paper about judging people (morally) for ...feeling emotions (!)👇

www.researchgate.net/publication/...

Follow @isernmas.bsky.social, @joannad-c.bsky.social, and Ivar Hannikainen (www.researchgate.net/profile/Ivar...) for more.
January 7, 2026 at 4:10 PM
New publication! ✨

Why does the growing everyday use of psychotherapy terms feel both empowering and troubling?

Because two practices are at play: mental health-speak, which empowers, and therapy-speak, which distorts.

w/ @almagro.bsky.social

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Latest papers: Manuel Almagro & Carme Isern-Mas examine the tension of the increasing presence of mental health-related language in everyday conversations from a practice-focused approach to meaning doi.org/10.1080/0951... #philsky #philpsy
January 5, 2026 at 6:51 PM
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The Blog of the APA has just published this piece I wrote a month ago about philosophy and polarization!

blog.apaonline.org/2025/12/29/p...
Philosophy as Resistance: Polarization, Narratives and the Evaluative | Blog of the APA
As a philosopher working on interdisciplinary issues such as the polarization of public opinion, I’m often asked two things: what role philosophy plays in relation to this topic and what can be done t...
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December 31, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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My paper on break-up chatbots came out today, just in time for you to bring it up as a debate topic at the Christmas dinner table. A podcast on this will come out after the holidays too. Article free to read below ⬇️
The ethics of break-up chatbots
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December 23, 2025 at 12:29 PM
🎉 Pamela Barone and I got our first national PROJECT as co-PIs to research JEALOUSY, combining dev psych, ethics, and x-phi, with an amazing women-led team.

And just 10 years after starting our PhDs together (see pic)! 🥹

w/ Gomila, Fernández, Barbato, @joannad-c.bsky.social & Schaubroeck
December 12, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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Our paper “De-idealizing hate speech: Hate narratives” is now out in Topoi! 📣 @vlc-lab.bsky.social @filolab.bsky.social

Carmela and I argue that we must resist an idealized understanding of hate speech in order to reveal more nuanced forms of it

Check it out!!

link.springer.com/article/10.1...
De-idealizing Hate Speech: Hate Narratives - Topoi
Recent work has focused on the ordinary concept of hate speech. Yet, there remains little consensus on how to define it. Given this lack of agreement in the literature, a seemingly reasonable strategy...
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December 11, 2025 at 7:57 AM
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December 8, 2025 at 10:44 AM
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📢 Se ofertan 29 contratos predoctorales concedidos a @universidadgranada.bsky.social, uno de ellos para trabajar con nosotrxs en el proyecto PID2024 sobre inferencias de estados mentales en el dominio moral!

⏳ Plazo de presentación: 18/12/25

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Convocatoria de contratos predoctorales 2025 | Vicerrectorado de Investigación y Transferencia
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December 4, 2025 at 7:27 AM
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🎓Contrato FPI disponible para hacer una tesis doctoral en bioética y final de la vida en @filolab.bsky.social

📣 ¡Difusión, por favor!

ℹ️ Enlace a la página de la convocatoria:
investigacion.ugr.es/recursos-hum...
December 5, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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Do we become afraid because we are aware of danger? Or do we become aware of danger because we are afraid? In our new paper, Christine Tappolet and I argue against the reactive view of fear. Summary below: (1/5) philarchive.org/rec/DAZRFF
November 29, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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New episode (1182), with Dr. Dries Bostyn. We talk about how people respond to trolley dilemmas. #Psychology #ethics #Science

YouTube: youtu.be/zw_Uzmq83hA
Podcast: tinyurl.com/4srd95ry
#1182 Dries Bostyn: How People Respond to Trolley Dilemmas
YouTube video by The Dissenter
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November 28, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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Really enjoyed talking with Professor Edouard Machery on Behind the Stigma about experimental philosophy, moral intuitions, and whether morality is universal. His insights (and humor) made this such a fun one! Listen here:🎙️ www.buzzsprout.com/1402324/epis...
Is Morality A Human Universal with Professor Edouard Machery - Behind the Stigma
In this episode, I speak with Professor Edouard Machery to explore experimental philosophy and the question of whether morality is truly universal. We discuss why humans need morals in the first place...
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November 27, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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New paper accepted in Topoi!

Carmela Vieites and I argue that there's a risk in the literature of idealizing what hate speech is, and that such idealization must be resisted, especially for detection purposes.

Check out the preprint here:
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
(PDF) De-idealizing hate speech: Hate narratives
PDF | There is little consensus among scholars on how to define the ordinary concept of hate speech, but there is broad agreement that slurs constitute... | Find, read and cite all the research you ne...
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November 27, 2025 at 10:13 AM
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Been thinking a bit recently about the ethics of suicide prevention and our general overconfidence in our ability to predict and prevent it in ways that benefit its targets. Here's a sample of my latest thinking from the APA blog blog.apaonline.org/2025/11/21/f... @apaphilosophy.bsky.social
From Paternalism to Suicide Prevention: No Simple Path | Blog of the APA
This entry is based on my “Paternalism and the Ethics of Suicide Prevention,” forthcoming in M. Cholbi and P. Stellino, eds., Oxford Handbook of the Philosophy of Suicide. On its face, suicide prevent...
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November 25, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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Ah!! So thrilled for this. The past winner list is chock-full of folks I've looked up to for years and been personally inspired by including Melissa Ferguson, Larisa Heiphetz
@drlarisa.bsky.social, and gendered cognition giants Kristina Olson, Ashley Martin
The International Social Cognition Network (ISCON) is pleased to announce Dr. April Bailey as the 2025 winner of the Early Career Award! Dr. Bailey is a Lecturer of Psychology at the University of Edinburgh. She earned her B.A. from Colgate University and her PhD in 2019 from Yale University.
November 25, 2025 at 11:09 AM
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Philosophers on The Australian's Top Researchers List...
Philosophers Among Australia’s “Top 250 Researchers” - Daily Nous
The Australian has published its Research Magazine, which includes a list of the top current researchers in Australia in 250 fields. Two philosophers are on the list. The Australian's top researcher i...
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November 21, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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🎉Thrilled that @luciagarzon.bsky.social won First Prize at the Certamen Arquímedes (cienciagob.bsky.social) for the best undergraduate-led research in the Social Sciences & Humanities category! A truly well-deserved recognition of her research on the folk concept of consent. Congrats, Lucía!🌟
November 21, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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New paper! Its main idea is simple but overlooked: rumination isn’t just persistent negative thinking. It can also involve losing the ability to stop inner speech. This explains why rumination feels overwhelming and why practices cultivating inner silence make a difference.

doi.org/10.1080/0020...
November 17, 2025 at 1:03 PM
"core claims concern, for ex., [...] the nature of the identity prejudices that clinicians are said to harbor toward the patients they treat. We could not identify any empirical study examining or supporting these claims."

hope the xphi paper @ivarr.bsky.social and I have under review can help.🤞
This week, Kasper Møller Nielsen, Julie Nordgaard, and Mads Gram Henriksen present their recent publication on a critical perspective of epistemic injustice in healthcare, addressing underlying scientific, conceptual, and theoretical issues.

#philsky #philpsy
imperfectcognitions....
November 15, 2025 at 10:22 AM
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4-Year Funded PhD Position at the University of the Balearic Islands (UIB) – Spain

Os reenviamos información sobre una oferta de posición predoctoral en la Universidad de las Islas Baleares (UIB). La Junta Directiva de la SEPEX ***** Síguenos en ***** Bluesky: [@sepex.bsky.social] LinkedIn: X:…
4-Year Funded PhD Position at the University of the Balearic Islands (UIB) – Spain
Os reenviamos información sobre una oferta de posición predoctoral en la Universidad de las Islas Baleares (UIB). La Junta Directiva de la SEPEX ***** Síguenos en ***** Bluesky: [@sepex.bsky.social] LinkedIn: X: [@SEPEX13] Facebook: [ We are offering a four-year fully funded PhD position, with the possibility of converting the final year into a postdoctoral position if the thesis is completed within three years.
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November 5, 2025 at 9:56 AM
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You've probably heard of deathbots, but did you know about break-up bots? It's possible to create a digital duplicates of an ex and chat to them as if they never left in the 1st place. In my forthcoming paper in Phenom & the Cog Sciences, I discuss 3 factors against continuing bonds w ex-bots/1
Pilar Lopez-Cantero, The ethics of break-up chatbots - PhilPapers
This paper offers the first normative analysis of break-up chatbots, which simulate an ex-partner's conversational style. I argue that technologies that have the (potential) aim of fostering continuin...
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November 3, 2025 at 10:05 AM