"Did the stock market just crash?" – How can it be warranted to fear something that might already have happened? This question is at the heart of my just released paper "A Paradox of Past-Directed Fear" in Ergo: An Open Access Journal of #Philosophy: doi.org/10.3998/ergo... #philsky #philemotion
A Paradox of Past-Directed Fear: An Idealized Warrant Approach to the Fittingness of Emotion
This paper presents a paradox based on the following assumptions: that emotions are warranted when you are justified in thinking that the emotion is fitting, that there are warranted cases of past-dir...
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In American Philosophical Quarterly 62.1, a special issues on AI ethics, @rodrigodiazxphi.bsky.social ( @csic.es ) & @jonasblatter.bsky.social ( @ruhr-uni-bochum.de ) ask how we should respond to AI emotional expressions + discuss conditions under which a reply is necessitated. buff.ly/42Luw7U
Short answer: yes, emotions can sometimes be unfair to others; yes, those others can sometimes appropriately blame you for them; but blame can be resolved. Long answer: https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-mono/10.4324/9781003498032/unfair-emotions-jonas-blatter #philsky #philosophy
Unfair Emotions | Their Morality and Blameworthiness | Jonas Blatter |
This book provides a novel philosophical account of the unfairness of certain emotions. It explains how the concept of unfairness can be applied to emotions and
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The 2nd AI ethics special issue, American Philosophical Quarterly 61.2, is out! Contributors: • @emratti.bsky.social • @pathumm.bsky.social • @kraymondh.bsky.social - @univie.ac.at • @jonasblatter.bsky.social - @ruhr-uni-bochum.de • @rodrigodiazxphi.bsky.social - @csic.es + more buff.ly/3ELKpRy
Should we respond to AI’s emotional expressions? 🤖 In our new paper, @jonasblatter.bsky.social and I argue that the reasons depend on design features, not authenticity. Read here: doi.org/10.5406/2152... Preprint: philpapers.org/archive/DAZR...
Reasons to Respond to AI Emotional Expressions
Abstract. Human emotional expressions can communicate the emotional state of the expresser, but they can also communicate appeals to perceivers. For example, sadness expressions such as crying request...
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