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Carme Isern-Mas @isernmas.bsky.social · 14d

New paper accepted!🎉

Is Taylor Swift responsible for how she makes her fans feel?

Yes; the notion of affective power (the ability to influence how others feel) can help identify the responsibilities celebrities have towards their fans.

w/ G.Mills & @alfredarcher.bsky.social

Preprint ⬇️

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Jake Wojtowicz @jakewojtowicz.bsky.social · Sep 10

New open access paper with @alfredarcher.bsky.social is now online! "We’re a Tourist Club Now: The Ethics of Sports Fan Tourism"
link.springer.com/article/10.1...

We’re a Tourist Club Now: The Ethics of Sports Fan Tourism - The Journal of Ethics

The Journal of Ethics - Sports fan tourism is a booming industry that is actively cultivated both by sports clubs and by national governments. However, sports fan tourism has recently been subject...

link.springer.com

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Alfred Archer @alfredarcher.bsky.social · Sep 6

Was going to suggest all the things Jake did. On this topic, I don't know anything that draws on speech acts but this paper of mine takes an affective scaffolding approach and argues that fans creating a hostile atmosphere can be justified in certain sports link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Away from Home: The Ethics of Hostile Affective Scaffolding - Topoi

During live sporting events, fans often create intense atmospheres in stadiums, expressing support for their own local players and discouragement for the opposition. Crowd hostility directed at opposi...

link.springer.com

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · Sep 5

‘These are not deals that lead to the British people owning industry, which Miliband claimed in 2023 was one of Labour’s objectives. They are subsidies and incentives, large sums of public money accruing no equity.’

@ewangibbs.bsky.social on an oil refinery closure: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Ewan Gibbs · Goodbye to Grangemouth

Any form of ‘just transition’ – managing the move to a greener economy while also protecting workers and...

www.lrb.co.uk

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Alfred Archer @alfredarcher.bsky.social · Sep 3

An absolute pleasure to work on this together with @isernmas.bsky.social and Katrien Schaubroeck

Carme Isern-Mas @isernmas.bsky.social · Sep 1

New publication! ✨

Should we mourn morally flawed celebrities?

We argue that public mourning risks reinforcing testimonial and affective injustice and normalizing wrongdoing –and discuss how to mourn without causing these harms.

w/ K. Schaubroeck & @alfredarcher.bsky.social
🔓 shorturl.at/Z3LXN

No One Mourns the Wicked: The Ethics of Mourning Morally Flawed Celebrities

Click on the article title to read more.

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Carme Isern-Mas @isernmas.bsky.social · Sep 1

New publication! ✨

Should we mourn morally flawed celebrities?

We argue that public mourning risks reinforcing testimonial and affective injustice and normalizing wrongdoing –and discuss how to mourn without causing these harms.

w/ K. Schaubroeck & @alfredarcher.bsky.social
🔓 shorturl.at/Z3LXN

No One Mourns the Wicked: The Ethics of Mourning Morally Flawed Celebrities

Click on the article title to read more.

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Alfred Archer @alfredarcher.bsky.social · Aug 29

@benjaminmatheson.bsky.social
and I are organising a workshop and special issue of the Journal of Ethics on the Ethics of Fandom. Call for abstracts here:
link.springer.com/collections/...
Some great speakers already confirmed:
@ajkadlac.bsky.social
, Erin Tarver and Kamila Pacovská
#philsky

Access research journals, articles, books and more | SpringerLink

Providing access to millions of research articles and chapters from Science, Technology and Medicine, and Humanities and Social Sciences

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AFFINITY @affectinthecity.bsky.social · Aug 22

First publication out! It questions whether people who report loss of community due to gentrification and migration should both be treated as victims of injustice. My view is that we should, although injustice has different grounds in the latter case: the unjust distribution of affective burdens.

Gentrification, migration, and non-material injustice

Gentrification can harm residents at a personal and emotional level, even when they are not physically displaced. Recognising these non-material harms as a source of wrongful ‘phenomenological disp...

www.tandfonline.com

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Alfred Archer @alfredarcher.bsky.social · Aug 14

And congrats to you Jules!

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Alfred Archer @alfredarcher.bsky.social · Aug 14

Really honoured to see Alan, my and Bart's book longlisted for this alongside some really excellent books #philsky

Constantine Sandis @csandis.bsky.social · Aug 14

The longlist for the @triphilosophy.bsky.social 2025 Nayef Al-Rodhan International Prize in Transdisciplinary Philosophy has been announced!

royalinstitutephilosophy.org/news/longlis...

Longlist announced for the Nayef Al-Rodhan Book Prize 2025 - Royal Institute of Philosophy

The Royal Institute of Philosophy unveils the longlist for the 2025 Nayef Al-Rodhan International Prize in Transdisciplinary Philosophy. Learn more.

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Constantine Sandis @csandis.bsky.social · Aug 14

The longlist for the @triphilosophy.bsky.social 2025 Nayef Al-Rodhan International Prize in Transdisciplinary Philosophy has been announced!

royalinstitutephilosophy.org/news/longlis...

Longlist announced for the Nayef Al-Rodhan Book Prize 2025 - Royal Institute of Philosophy

The Royal Institute of Philosophy unveils the longlist for the 2025 Nayef Al-Rodhan International Prize in Transdisciplinary Philosophy. Learn more.

royalinstitutephilosophy.org

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Benjamin Matheson @benjaminmatheson.bsky.social · Apr 22

Now available online: "Shame in Response to Institutional Failure" - co-authored with @alfredarcher.bsky.social

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Shame in Response to Institutional Failure

When an institution morally fails, what is the appropriate emotional reaction for those institution members who are causally uninvolved in bringing about this failure? Our aim in this article is to e...

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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European Philosophical Society for the Study of Emotions @epsse.bsky.social · Nov 14

Passion Special Issue: Faces of Affective Injustice CFP!

Join our amazing contributors - Eleanor Byrne, Myisha Cherry, Francisco Gallegos, Federica Gregoratto, Carme Isern Mas, Imke von Maur, Jan Slaby, Shiloh Whitney, and Michalinos Zembylas - and send us your work on Affective Injustice

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Alfred Archer @alfredarcher.bsky.social · Jul 4

New paper of mine looks at how moral exemplars can influence our idea of who is a member of the moral community and the implications of this for the use of exemplars in moral education. Available open access here: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
#philsky

Moral Exemplars and the Moral Community - The Journal of Value Inquiry

Linda Zagzebski’s groundbreaking book Exemplarist Moral Theory has inspired new attention to the use of moral exemplars in moral education. Zagzebski argues that admiration for moral exemplars has a c...

link.springer.com

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Alfred Archer @alfredarcher.bsky.social · Jul 1

Here is something I wrote about why it's dangerous for those campaigning for equality to draw on the power of celebrity to advance their cause. #philsky onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Using Celebrity to Advance Equality

Click on the article title to read more.

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Alfred Archer @alfredarcher.bsky.social · Jun 27

#philsky

Alfred Archer @alfredarcher.bsky.social · Jun 27

New paper of mine out (open access) in @journalphp.bsky.social together with @jakewojtowicz.bsky.social and Kyle Fruh exploring sports fandom, fanaticism, exploitation and sportswashing #philsky

Philosophical Psychology @journalphp.bsky.social · May 25

Latest papers: Jake Wojtowicz, Alfred Archer & Kyle Fruh sketch the similarities between fandom and fanaticism and argue that sports fandom is often a form of fanaticism in this open access article doi.org/10.1080/0951...

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Alfred Archer @alfredarcher.bsky.social · Jun 26

Mia Tao just published this excellent (open access) paper about sporting excellence. Read to find out why sporting excellence needs to include moral excellence. Supervising Mia has been my favourite part of my job in the last year. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Revisiting broad internalism: towards a moral account of sporting excellence

J.S. Russell’s account of broad internalism holds that the interpretation and application of rules should be guided by underlying principles aimed at maintaining and fostering sporting excellence. ...

www.tandfonline.com

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Alfred Archer @alfredarcher.bsky.social · Jun 19

Thanks so much for this @annaalexandrova.bsky.social !

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Anna Alexandrova @annaalexandrova.bsky.social · Jun 17

This impressive book was a subject of a symposium at this conference, which i couldn’t attend and sent a recording with my commentary. The centrepiece of the book is a model of a particular type of misery characteristic of a life in a market society 1/n

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Benjamin Matheson @benjaminmatheson.bsky.social · Jun 8

Episode 3 of The Philosophy of Emotion Podcast is now available! @alfredarcher.bsky.social on affective artifacts and affective injustice.

thecogsproject.substack.com/publish/post...

Episode 3: Alfred Archer on Affective Artifacts and Affective Injustice

The Philosophy of Emotion Podcast

thecogsproject.substack.com

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Philosophical Psychology @journalphp.bsky.social · May 25

Latest papers: Jake Wojtowicz, Alfred Archer & Kyle Fruh sketch the similarities between fandom and fanaticism and argue that sports fandom is often a form of fanaticism in this open access article doi.org/10.1080/0951...

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Tim Christiaens @timchristiaens.bsky.social · May 4

🚨 for everyone interested in the state of Italian political thought today, you can now pre-order our book An Introduction to Contemporary Italian Thought. Coming soon in early 2026. And it’s even for a reasonable price!

www.bloomsbury.com/uk/introduct...

An Introduction to Contemporary Italian Thought

Over the past three decades, Italian thought has emerged as a major field within continental philosophy. But what are the latest developments since Italian theo…

www.bloomsbury.com

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Alfred Archer @alfredarcher.bsky.social · Apr 22

Very happy to see this published! A pleasure, as always, to write together with @benjaminmatheson.bsky.social

Benjamin Matheson @benjaminmatheson.bsky.social · Apr 22

Now available online: "Shame in Response to Institutional Failure" - co-authored with @alfredarcher.bsky.social

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Shame in Response to Institutional Failure

When an institution morally fails, what is the appropriate emotional reaction for those institution members who are causally uninvolved in bringing about this failure? Our aim in this article is to e...

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Alex Fisher @alex-fisher.bsky.social · Apr 13

Very pleased to finally get this out:

doi.org/10.1093/pq/pqaf036

I show how fictional examples can (subject to certain conditions) function like real case studies in providing evidence about the social world.

And in certain areas of philosophy, fictional examples can even offer unique benefits.

In defence of fictional examples

Abstract. This paper provides a novel defence of the philosophical use of examples drawn from literature, by comparison with thought experiments and real c

doi.org

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Joey Pollock @joeykpollock.bsky.social · Apr 3

Hi folks! We're hiring another 3-year postdoc to join a project on human-LLM communication. Based in the philosophy dept but also open to candidates from other relevant fields (e.g., linguistic pragmatics, experimental psychology). Application deadline 30th April.
www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

Postdoctoral Fellow/Researcher - "Artifical Intelligence: Human-LLM Communication" (276987) | University of Oslo

Job title: Postdoctoral Fellow/Researcher - "Artifical Intelligence: Human-LLM Communication" (276987), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Wednesday, April 30, 2025

www.jobbnorge.no

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David Spurrett @doctorspurt.bsky.social · Mar 19

The 'Scaffolding Bad' collection in Topoi (I co-edited with Giovanna Colombetti and John Sutton) is finally complete, with 21 papers and an introduction. link.springer.com/collections/...

Scaffolding Bad: Varieties of Situated Cognitive Harm

Paper submissions are invited for the special issue/collection of Topoi on Scaffolding Bad: Varieties of Situated Cognitive Harm. The special issue aims to ...

link.springer.com

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Benjamin Matheson @benjaminmatheson.bsky.social · Mar 11

The first post on my project's blog has been published. We'll soon also be launching "The Philosophy of Emotion Podcast" featuring interviews with leading and emerging figures on recent and prominent ideas in the philosophy of emotion. Check it out!

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Aldo Houterman @aldohouterman.bsky.social · Mar 10

Preparing my talk on Michel Serres and the referee for the Philosophy and Sport Workshop on Refereeing this Friday in Tilburg. @refbooks.bsky.social @acevaal.bsky.social @alfredarcher.bsky.social

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European Philosophical Society for the Study of Emotions @epsse.bsky.social · Feb 14

Thrilled to share the call for papers for our Passion SI on Critical/Feminist Philosophy of Emotions guest edited by the amazing Laura Silva, Federico Lauria, and @arinapismenny.bsky.social ✨

Join contributors Arina Pismenny, Ronald de Sousa, Laura Silva, Marie Wuth, and Denish Jaswal

Blue poster with announcing the CFA on critical/feminist philosophy of emotions

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