Benjamin Matheson
@benjaminmatheson.bsky.social
Assistant Professor at the University of Bern and PI of a SERI-Funded ERC Starting Grant on "Collective Guilt and Shame" (CoGS).
Episode 10 of the Philosophy of Emotion Podcast is now available! thecogsproject.substack.com/p/episode-10...
Episode 10: Andrea Scarantino on how emotions about fictional objects motivate behaviour
Ever screamed at a horror movie while knowing perfectly well that the monster isn’t real?
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Super glad that my paper presenting my Belief–Desire Appraisal Theory of Emotion is now published! 🥳 It defends a simple idea: #emotions are driven by #appraisals, and appraisals themselves are operations on #belief–desire pairs. Open access: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
This is finally out! I fixed multiple typos and added all the literature that came out during the unusually lengthy production process. Very apt that it comes out on the first day of EPPSE! Here’s a free link to the published version: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/author...
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Pilar Lopez-Cantero@lopezcantero.bsky.social · 4mo agoJust accepted: my Phil Compass article on affective injustice! It synthesizes the debate into an overarching definition ('the unjust interference w people’s affective lives, w regard to their own affective practices or through those of others') & brings out many connections between existing views/1
Episode 9 of the Philosophy of Emotion Podcast is now live: @cbonard.bsky.social interviews Christine Tappolet on the Receptive Theory of Emotions (en français) thecogsproject.substack.com/p/episode-9-...
Episode 9: Christine Tappolet on the Receptive Theory of Emotions (en français)
Christine Tappolet joins Constant Bonard to discuss her Receptive Theory of emotions, a new account that seeks to explain how emotions put us in contact with values while distinguishing them from sens...
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Here is an article @benjaminmatheson.bsky.social and I wrote about how political apologies may prematurely consigning injustice to history. psyche.co/ideas/good-a... #philsky
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Episode 8 of the Philosophy of Emotion Podcast is now available! I interview @cbonard.bsky.social Bonard on whether emotions can drive environmental mitigation. thecogsproject.substack.com/p/episode-8-...
Episode 8: Can Emotions Drive Environmental Mitigation? with Constant Bonard
Constant Bonard joins Benjamin Matheson to discuss the role emotions play in environmental mitigation and climate action.
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Check out this article that me and @alfredarcher.bsky.social wrote about political apologies! psyche.co/ideas/good-a...
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Check our these excellent articles by Benjamin Matheson and Alba Montes Sanchez! Both use parenthood to explore very different questions: while Matheson's original three-book review dives into anxiety, guilt & pride, Montes Sanchez discusses how emotion helps knowing what we really want.
Vol. 3 No. 2 (2025): Volume 3, Issue 2 | Passion: Journal of the European Philosophical Society for the Study of Emotions
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😡 Is anger always hostile? 🤬 🎙️ In this new episode of The Philosophy of Emotion Podcast, I'm joined by Laura Silva @proflaurasilva.bsky.social who challenges a deeply entrenched assumption about anger and shows what we miss when we treat it as purely destructive. 🎧 Listen now on all platforms
Episode 7: Is Anger Always Hostile? With Laura Silva
Laura Silva joins Constant Bonard to discuss anger, challenging the common assumption that it is essentially a hostile emotion.
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Just accepted: my Phil Compass article on affective injustice! It synthesizes the debate into an overarching definition ('the unjust interference w people’s affective lives, w regard to their own affective practices or through those of others') & brings out many connections between existing views/1
Pilar Lopez-Cantero, Affective injustice - PhilPapers
Oppression, marginalization, and other forms of disadvantage often come with emotional burdens, such as feelings of insecurity or stress. At the same time, some features of oppression are emotional in...
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Do emotions drive political engagement? A busy pizzeria takes many orders and makes many pizzas, but its busyness doesn’t *cause* these, except via feedback effects. Likewise, I argue here, emotions correlate with new evaluations and motivations, but don’t *cause* them, except via feedback effects.
Are Emotions Key to Political Engagement? The Case of Environmental Mitigation - Review of Philosophy and Psychology
Review of Philosophy and Psychology - Emotions are widely taken to play an important role in motivating political engagement. Activists and scholars often emphasize emotional responses such as...
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New Episode of The Philosophy of Emotion Podcast! This time in French. Check out this great interview of Julien Deonna and Fabrice Teroni (Geneva) by @cbonard.bsky.social. Look out for another episode in with Deonna and Teroni in English in the future!
Constant Bonard@cbonard.bsky.social · 5mo agoNouvel épisode de _Philosophy of Emotion_ 🎙️ — en français ! Avec Julien Deonna et Fabrice Teroni, nous discutons de **l’attitudinalisme**, la fameuse théorie des émotions qu’ils développent ensemble depuis plus de 15 ans 🫀 open.substack.com/pub/thecogsp...:
Check out the latest episode of The Philosophy of Emotion Podcast! @lopezcantero.bsky.social Lopez-Cantero talks about romantic love. substack.com/home/post/p-...
Episode 5: Pilar Lopez-Cantero on Romantic Love
The Philosophy of Emotion Podcast
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A few of my thoughts about artistic wrongs and artistic redemption were included this article about the possible comeback of Fab Morvan (of Milli Vanilli) www.latimes.com/entertainmen...
How Fab Morvan of Milli Vanilli mounted one of the greatest comebacks in Grammy history
Can Fab Morvan of Milli Vanilli find redemption at the Grammys in the audiobook category, decades after the Recording Academy revoked his duo's best new artist award?
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In moments of anger, we often feel certain that our position is right, both morally and factually. | https://iai.tv/articles/anger-is-not-a-guide-to-truth-or-morality-auid-3427 But philosopher Benjamin Matheson examines how anger can both reveal and obscure moral reality.
Anger is not a guide to truth or morality
<p><em>In moments of anger, we often feel certain that our position is right, both morally and factually. Sometimes we even imagine we are right because we are angry. But as philosophers have long not...
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I missed this amazing presentation of the manosphere at the end of October, but wow this is really worth your time: www.theguardian.com/technology/n...
Money, muscles and anxiety: why the manosphere clicked with young men – a visual deep dive
The manosphere is known for misogyny, but that’s not the only thing that influencers in this space offer. Young men explain the allure and the problems of the manosphere in their own words
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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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New paper online now: “Consigning Injustice of History with Political Apologies” (by me and @alfredarcher.bsky.social). onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Consigning Injustice to History with Political Apologies
Failures to remember the past properly can constitute a range of different wrongs. In this article, we identify a novel kind of wrong that often occurs through political apologies: consigning an inju....
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I am pleased to reveal what the main sources of insight and inspiration for my present and future work has been: children’s stories. Here’s one thought I had about Mog, which also features in a book I’ve been working on for a while. substack.com/home/post/p-...
What I Learned From: Mog The Forgetful Cat (by Judith Kerr)
Can we be praiseworthy for what we do accidentally? What does Mog teach us about the nature of moral responsibility?
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@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
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Una pregunta para los habladores de Español: cuando una persona dice que algo le hace ilusión, ¿cómo explicarías esto en inglés?
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Benjamin Matheson@benjaminmatheson.bsky.social · last yr.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. open.substack.com/pub/thecogsp...
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. open.substack.com/pub/thecogsp...
