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Constant Bonard

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• 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

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Constant Bonard @cbonard.bsky.social · Jul 9

Check out the new episode of our podcast 😃

Benjamin Matheson @benjaminmatheson.bsky.social · Jul 8

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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Guillaume Champeau @guillaume.champeau.info · Jul 8

Ah ouais, les barrières sont tombées.

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Constant Bonard @cbonard.bsky.social · Jul 9

Check out the new episode of our podcast 😃

Benjamin Matheson @benjaminmatheson.bsky.social · Jul 8

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Kevin Zollman @kevinzollman.com · Jun 20

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.

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Phil Corlett @philcorlett.bsky.social · Jun 14

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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Constant Bonard @cbonard.bsky.social · Jun 9

If you stumble upon a text trying to make an argument that CAs aren’t democratic I’d be interested to read it!

Constant Bonard @cbonard.bsky.social · Jun 9

I agree! But is it really a hot take? Are there people who disagree except those who don’t really know what CAs are? Genuine question

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Constant Bonard @cbonard.bsky.social · Jun 8

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.

Episode 3: Alfred Archer on Affective Artifacts and Affective Injustice

The Philosophy of Emotion Podcast

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Constant Bonard @cbonard.bsky.social · May 17

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Constant Bonard @cbonard.bsky.social · May 10

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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Constant Bonard @cbonard.bsky.social · May 6

Nice 😃 @teresafm.bsky.social @contesi.bsky.social

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Knowledge in Crisis @knowledgecrisis.bsky.social · May 6

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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Philosophical Psychology @journalphp.bsky.social · Apr 30

Free access! Jacob Berger reviews "The Epistemic Role of #Consciousness" (OUP) by Declan Smithies doi.org/10.1080/0951... #vol38issue4 #philsky #booksky

Man trapped in a bottle on the cover of the book

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Constant Bonard @cbonard.bsky.social · Apr 30

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 :)

Astropierre @astropierre.com · Apr 30

"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...

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 ?

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Constant Bonard @cbonard.bsky.social · Apr 10

Go Teresa 🥳

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Benjamin Matheson @benjaminmatheson.bsky.social · Apr 8

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

The Philosophy of Emotion Podcast

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Constant Bonard @cbonard.bsky.social · Apr 7

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.
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Constant Bonard @cbonard.bsky.social · Apr 6

🎧 Ben Matheson and I are launching this new podcast series. Stay tuned!

Benjamin Matheson @benjaminmatheson.bsky.social · Apr 6

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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Constant Bonard @cbonard.bsky.social · Mar 28

Congrats on your new position!

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Jonathan Birch @birchlse.bsky.social · Mar 25

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.

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Stefano Palminteri @stepalminteri.bsky.social · Mar 26

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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Constant Bonard @cbonard.bsky.social · Mar 24

(Also, not a huge fan of the System 1-System 2 distinction 😬)

Constant Bonard @cbonard.bsky.social · Mar 24

Yes, I was thinking that because human-specific mentalizing abilities are certainly cognitively demanding, that there is rather good evidence that humans have an especially “social” brain, and it is plausible that this is linked with Gricean-like maxims (see e.g. Tomasello)

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Constant Bonard @cbonard.bsky.social · Mar 23

Could it be that we use mentalizing + some type of charitable principle to interpret what others do (à la Grice)?

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Constant Bonard @cbonard.bsky.social · Mar 19

For my Paris friends interested in AI: I definitely recommend going to this event and following the AI-Phi group 🤖

AI-Phi @ai-phi.bsky.social · Mar 19

🎂 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...

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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Constant Bonard @cbonard.bsky.social · Mar 19

Wow time flies!