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
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
www.theguardian.com
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...
philevents.org
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...
philpapers.org
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...
dailynous.com
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?)
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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
Absolute nerd dream of finishing a workshop on local normative theory with a city tour of Manchester led academics from the UOM’s Urban Lab
September 4, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Absolute nerd dream of finishing a workshop on local normative theory with a city tour of Manchester led academics from the UOM’s Urban Lab
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The Future of Practical Ethics
IDEA The Ethics Centre, University of Leeds
8th - 10th September 2025
Keynote Speakers:
• Clare Chambers (Cambridge)
• Helen Frowe (Stockholm)
• Elselijn Kingma (KCL)
REGISTRATION NOW OPEN
conferences.leeds.ac.uk/the-future-o...
IDEA The Ethics Centre, University of Leeds
8th - 10th September 2025
Keynote Speakers:
• Clare Chambers (Cambridge)
• Helen Frowe (Stockholm)
• Elselijn Kingma (KCL)
REGISTRATION NOW OPEN
conferences.leeds.ac.uk/the-future-o...
July 23, 2025 at 10:38 AM
The Future of Practical Ethics
IDEA The Ethics Centre, University of Leeds
8th - 10th September 2025
Keynote Speakers:
• Clare Chambers (Cambridge)
• Helen Frowe (Stockholm)
• Elselijn Kingma (KCL)
REGISTRATION NOW OPEN
conferences.leeds.ac.uk/the-future-o...
IDEA The Ethics Centre, University of Leeds
8th - 10th September 2025
Keynote Speakers:
• Clare Chambers (Cambridge)
• Helen Frowe (Stockholm)
• Elselijn Kingma (KCL)
REGISTRATION NOW OPEN
conferences.leeds.ac.uk/the-future-o...
You might be able to tell I am a little bit obsessed with the philosophical dimensions of road safety as of late (bike lanes, SUVs, traffic lights, you name it).
By the way, The Future of Practical Ethics at IDEA Centre (Leeds) is still open for registration: conferences.leeds.ac.uk/the-future-o...
By the way, The Future of Practical Ethics at IDEA Centre (Leeds) is still open for registration: conferences.leeds.ac.uk/the-future-o...
The next 10 days:
'Distributive Affective Justice' describes the distribution process for affective goods & burdens (MANCEPT)
'Affective Rights to the City' specifies entitlements to emotional aspects of urban life that must be protected by policymakers (MANCEPT & The Future of Practical Ethics).
'Distributive Affective Justice' describes the distribution process for affective goods & burdens (MANCEPT)
'Affective Rights to the City' specifies entitlements to emotional aspects of urban life that must be protected by policymakers (MANCEPT & The Future of Practical Ethics).
September 1, 2025 at 2:51 PM
You might be able to tell I am a little bit obsessed with the philosophical dimensions of road safety as of late (bike lanes, SUVs, traffic lights, you name it).
By the way, The Future of Practical Ethics at IDEA Centre (Leeds) is still open for registration: conferences.leeds.ac.uk/the-future-o...
By the way, The Future of Practical Ethics at IDEA Centre (Leeds) is still open for registration: conferences.leeds.ac.uk/the-future-o...
Funniest clip I have watched in ages. Not so much the doubts of Hailey Bieber reading hard philosophy but the fact that these are portrayed as ‘summer reads’ that she carries in her bag, for Vogue. “I’ve read this 5 or 6 times” (FN), “I’ve taken a lot of notes from this one” (CPR)
#Booktok, listen up! Vogue’s Summer 2025 cover star #HaileyBieber has a few beach reads perfect for your next vacation. Tap the link in bio to watch more of Bieber’s episode of #InTheBag.
TikTok video by Vogue
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August 30, 2025 at 9:25 AM
Funniest clip I have watched in ages. Not so much the doubts of Hailey Bieber reading hard philosophy but the fact that these are portrayed as ‘summer reads’ that she carries in her bag, for Vogue. “I’ve read this 5 or 6 times” (FN), “I’ve taken a lot of notes from this one” (CPR)
My first paper on urban justice is out. It draws an analogy between gentrification and mass incoming migration, and shows that neighbourhoods receiving large numbers of needy migrants are treated unfairly, even if hosting needy migrants IS a requirement of justice/1
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
August 22, 2025 at 4:48 PM
My first paper on urban justice is out. It draws an analogy between gentrification and mass incoming migration, and shows that neighbourhoods receiving large numbers of needy migrants are treated unfairly, even if hosting needy migrants IS a requirement of justice/1
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One of my reviewing rules is never to review a paper on a day I got a rejection.
August 19, 2025 at 5:04 PM
One of my reviewing rules is never to review a paper on a day I got a rejection.
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This paper from 7 years ago suddenly relevant again in the face of Trump's new "review" of Smithsonian exhibitions. #philsky
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Who Owns Up to the Past? Heritage and Historical Injustice | Journal of the American Philosophical Association | Cambridge Core
Who Owns Up to the Past? Heritage and Historical Injustice - Volume 4 Issue 1
www.cambridge.org
August 12, 2025 at 8:56 PM
This paper from 7 years ago suddenly relevant again in the face of Trump's new "review" of Smithsonian exhibitions. #philsky
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Because we were moving (and a super stressful move), this year we won’t really go on holiday, so instead I am passing my time finding absurd and amazing things in Facebook Marketplace. Let’s start strong. A bus stop:
July 31, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Because we were moving (and a super stressful move), this year we won’t really go on holiday, so instead I am passing my time finding absurd and amazing things in Facebook Marketplace. Let’s start strong. A bus stop:
