Pilar Lopez-Cantero
@lopezcantero.bsky.social
Marie Skłodowska-Curie/YUFE4 Fellow (Antwerp). Thinking about love, heartbreak, narrative, cities & travel. From Jaén 🫒
My project: @affectinthecity.bsky.social
My publications: https://philpeople.org/profiles/pilar-lopez-cantero
#philosophy #philsky
My project: @affectinthecity.bsky.social
My publications: https://philpeople.org/profiles/pilar-lopez-cantero
#philosophy #philsky
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
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 ⬇️
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Undergraduate award: Diploma in History and Philosophy of Science and Technology
Explore the ideas that drive ‘progress’. And the challenges they createAre you gripped by debates on misinformation, AI, and the role of science in public life? This course combines the philosophy of ...
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December 17, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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Exciting times at UoM: we are hiring up to 15 postdocs. See below
www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
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Bicentenary Research Fellowships in Humanities:Oxford Road
The University of Manchester has been celebrating 200 years of achievement in research-driven learning, development and innovation: this has included investing in our prestigious Bicentenary PhD Studentships and Fellowships. The scheme represents a major University investment of £28 million to recruit and fund more than 200 early-career researchers between 2025/26 and 2026/27.
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December 12, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Exciting times at UoM: we are hiring up to 15 postdocs. See below
www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
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What does an argument lose if you skip saying “no one has talked about this before”? After seeing some serious offences and having been called out myself on this recently (unfairly of course), I’m considering a blanket self-ban on ever saying it in papers (grant apps is another story…)
December 9, 2025 at 9:59 AM
What does an argument lose if you skip saying “no one has talked about this before”? After seeing some serious offences and having been called out myself on this recently (unfairly of course), I’m considering a blanket self-ban on ever saying it in papers (grant apps is another story…)
If the subway take guy ever stops me my take will be: it’s hard to navigate tech to make multi-sessions conferences online, but small-scale workshops can be livestreamed with minimal effort and not doing so is an excuse (have purposely saved this for a time where no one can take it as a subtweet)
December 2, 2025 at 5:16 PM
If the subway take guy ever stops me my take will be: it’s hard to navigate tech to make multi-sessions conferences online, but small-scale workshops can be livestreamed with minimal effort and not doing so is an excuse (have purposely saved this for a time where no one can take it as a subtweet)
I enjoyed this article on limerence during the weekend, and much more when I unexpectedly read commentary by Sam Shpall, who is one of my favourite living philosophers (I have recommended his tripartite theory of love paper dozens of times)
‘Desire in one of its rawest forms’: what do we know about limerence?
For everything from pop music to poetry, overwhelming infatuation offers inspiration and storylines. But when might this tip over into something a little less healthy?
www.theguardian.com
December 1, 2025 at 6:19 PM
I enjoyed this article on limerence during the weekend, and much more when I unexpectedly read commentary by Sam Shpall, who is one of my favourite living philosophers (I have recommended his tripartite theory of love paper dozens of times)
Facebook reminds me today that it’s been 11 years since my MSc graduation, and our pictures with the broom we bought for the occasion will never not make me smile
November 27, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Facebook reminds me today that it’s been 11 years since my MSc graduation, and our pictures with the broom we bought for the occasion will never not make me smile
Clicked the link expecting a hefty price tag and I was delighted to see that the paperback is only 36 euro with the discount!
If I've done my sums right, the book is available to pre-order on Tuesday, and Tuesday is also the final day of Routledge's 'Black Friday' sale which means everything is 25% off. So if anyone was thinking about pre-ordering, Tuesday might be a good day for it.
Epistemic Injustice: An Introduction
Epistemic injustice is one of the most important yet complex subjects to have emerged in philosophy in recent years. It refers to the idea that a person can be wronged when they are not properly belie...
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November 27, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Clicked the link expecting a hefty price tag and I was delighted to see that the paperback is only 36 euro with the discount!
Deadline on Monday!
PSA 🔈Our call for abstracts for EPSSE 2026 is now open! Our 2026 annual conference will be hosted in Germany by Universität Eichstätt-Ingolstadt on 24-26 June 2026 💫
Deadline for abstracts on all things philosophy of emotions: 1 December 2025
www.epsse.org/call-for-abs...
Deadline for abstracts on all things philosophy of emotions: 1 December 2025
www.epsse.org/call-for-abs...
Call for Abstracts | EPSSE
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November 26, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Deadline on Monday!
Let’s not forget that this regime was supported internationally while starving people, jailing queer and roma people, unionists and supporters of the left, submitting women, and making islamophobia, antisemitism and Catholic fundamentalism some of its key messages. For four long decades.
Spain has too rosy a view of Franco’s regime. Let’s remind ourselves of its horrors | Giles Tremlett
Little is taught about the murderous, incompetent dictatorship – and now almost one in five young people say Franco was good for the country, says historian Giles Tremlett
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November 22, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Let’s not forget that this regime was supported internationally while starving people, jailing queer and roma people, unionists and supporters of the left, submitting women, and making islamophobia, antisemitism and Catholic fundamentalism some of its key messages. For four long decades.
Since I started working on phil of the city I have learned so much more about how random stuff works. This month I am looking into SUVs, roads, and litter for three different papers/projects. This is probably my favourite job ever 🚗🛣️🚯
November 21, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Since I started working on phil of the city I have learned so much more about how random stuff works. This month I am looking into SUVs, roads, and litter for three different papers/projects. This is probably my favourite job ever 🚗🛣️🚯
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This is a genuinely intolerable reality…
November 10, 2025 at 11:01 PM
This is a genuinely intolerable reality…
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Three weeks left to submit to our conference in June 2026 -- submit your abstract via this form!
November 10, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Three weeks left to submit to our conference in June 2026 -- submit your abstract via this form!
Next year there will be a conference on the phil/o breakups! When I started my PhD there was *nothing* written on break-ups, but since then there has been amazing work on the end of relationships by ppl like Monika Betzler, Chris Crowley, Joe Saunders, or Richard Healy. Already can’t wait for this!
Philosophy of Breakups
This is a call for abstracts to present at The Philosophy of Breakups, organized by the Conceptual Foundations of Conflict Project at the University of Southern California. Please submit a PDF f...
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November 4, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Next year there will be a conference on the phil/o breakups! When I started my PhD there was *nothing* written on break-ups, but since then there has been amazing work on the end of relationships by ppl like Monika Betzler, Chris Crowley, Joe Saunders, or Richard Healy. Already can’t wait for this!
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
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
Including a very cool project on grief!!
Philosophers have been awarded over $6.6 million for a variety of projects in the recent round of Discovery Grants.
Philosophers Among Recent Discovery Grant Winners - Daily Nous
The Australian Research Council has announced the winners of its latest round of Discovery Grants, and several philosophers are among them. . The principal investigators, co-investigators, and their p...
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October 29, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Including a very cool project on grief!!
Epistemic injustice friends: I know some people complain a lot about terminological inflation in the debate, but has someone put this in an actual article (bonus if they have said why this is bad?)
October 26, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Epistemic injustice friends: I know some people complain a lot about terminological inflation in the debate, but has someone put this in an actual article (bonus if they have said why this is bad?)
Reposted by Pilar Lopez-Cantero
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
October 13, 2025 at 9:03 AM
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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PSA 🔈Our call for abstracts for EPSSE 2026 is now open! Our 2026 annual conference will be hosted in Germany by Universität Eichstätt-Ingolstadt on 24-26 June 2026 💫
Deadline for abstracts on all things philosophy of emotions: 1 December 2025
www.epsse.org/call-for-abs...
Deadline for abstracts on all things philosophy of emotions: 1 December 2025
www.epsse.org/call-for-abs...
Call for Abstracts | EPSSE
www.epsse.org
October 2, 2025 at 10:09 AM
PSA 🔈Our call for abstracts for EPSSE 2026 is now open! Our 2026 annual conference will be hosted in Germany by Universität Eichstätt-Ingolstadt on 24-26 June 2026 💫
Deadline for abstracts on all things philosophy of emotions: 1 December 2025
www.epsse.org/call-for-abs...
Deadline for abstracts on all things philosophy of emotions: 1 December 2025
www.epsse.org/call-for-abs...
Some academic conferences are treasurable spaces to meet new people, get together with old friends and share research with keen students—and this was one of those. Thanks @bexmillar.bsky.social, @lucyosler.bsky.social and staff and students at @cardiffphilosophy.bsky.social! (It was not sad at all)
September 27, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Some academic conferences are treasurable spaces to meet new people, get together with old friends and share research with keen students—and this was one of those. Thanks @bexmillar.bsky.social, @lucyosler.bsky.social and staff and students at @cardiffphilosophy.bsky.social! (It was not sad at all)
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Absolute peak academia at our sad philosophy workshop! The cosiest and kindest contemplation of exbots & heartbreak, grief & negative relations, and AI psychosis that you could wish for. Thanks @bexmillar.bsky.social, @lopezcantero.bsky.social & our lovely participants 🖤
hope we can do a part 2 👀
hope we can do a part 2 👀
September 26, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Absolute peak academia at our sad philosophy workshop! The cosiest and kindest contemplation of exbots & heartbreak, grief & negative relations, and AI psychosis that you could wish for. Thanks @bexmillar.bsky.social, @lopezcantero.bsky.social & our lovely participants 🖤
hope we can do a part 2 👀
hope we can do a part 2 👀
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Urbanism evening with the @academyofurbanism.bsky.social. Norman+Fosters’ Spencer de Grey discussed urban interventions across Europe. One of the takeaways is that urban design needs to look beyond the place that is intervened itself, looking also at connections & surroundings + consultations
September 23, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Urbanism evening with the @academyofurbanism.bsky.social. Norman+Fosters’ Spencer de Grey discussed urban interventions across Europe. One of the takeaways is that urban design needs to look beyond the place that is intervened itself, looking also at connections & surroundings + consultations
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Please join me, @lucyosler.bsky.social, and @lopezcantero.bsky.social for our Sad Philosophy Workshop next Friday! Sign up info below.
#philsky
A Sad Philosophy Workshop
GRIEF, HEARTBREAK, & HALLUCINATIONS
Pilar Lopez-Cantero (Antwerp)
Becky Millar (Cardiff)
Lucy Osler (Exeter)
13:30-17:30, Friday 26 September
1.57 John Percival Building
Cardiff University
Free! All welcome!
Register here: bit.ly/CdfGHH#philsky
A Sad Philosophy Workshop
GRIEF, HEARTBREAK, & HALLUCINATIONS
Pilar Lopez-Cantero (Antwerp)
Becky Millar (Cardiff)
Lucy Osler (Exeter)
13:30-17:30, Friday 26 September
1.57 John Percival Building
Cardiff University
Free! All welcome!
Register here: bit.ly/CdfGHH#philsky
September 15, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Please join me, @lucyosler.bsky.social, and @lopezcantero.bsky.social for our Sad Philosophy Workshop next Friday! Sign up info below.
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I am advertising two PhD positions in philosophy -- one for a domestic student, one for an international student. Both positions are 1 + 3 years, meaning that the first year is an MRes and the next three years are for the PhD.
www.mq.edu.au/research/phd...
www.mq.edu.au/research/phd...
PhD on the philosophy of networks of trust
This PhD scholarship is intended to benefit a researcher in empirically-oriented philosophy. Learn more and submit an expression of interest.
www.mq.edu.au
September 8, 2025 at 7:33 AM
I am advertising two PhD positions in philosophy -- one for a domestic student, one for an international student. Both positions are 1 + 3 years, meaning that the first year is an MRes and the next three years are for the PhD.
www.mq.edu.au/research/phd...
www.mq.edu.au/research/phd...
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What's the moral difference between eating meat and eating people? In this paper from 1978, Cora Diamond explores the issues. As one of the 100 Papers That Shaped Our Thinking, we've made it available to download for free (click Save PDF): www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
#philosophy #ethics
#philosophy #ethics
September 5, 2025 at 9:50 AM
What's the moral difference between eating meat and eating people? In this paper from 1978, Cora Diamond explores the issues. As one of the 100 Papers That Shaped Our Thinking, we've made it available to download for free (click Save PDF): www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
#philosophy #ethics
#philosophy #ethics