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Affective Artificial Agents as sui generis Affective Artifacts
AI-based technologies are increasingly pervasive in a number of contexts. Our affective and emotional life makes no exception. In this article, we...
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On Hostile and Oppressive Affective Technologies
4E approaches to affective technology tend to focus on how ‘users’ manage their situated affectivity, analogously to how they help themselves...
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The Affective Continuum
In this chapter and the next, the argument moves from the exposition of the harmonic theory of affect toward its application to various kinds and...
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The Role of Affective Empathy in Eliminating Discrimination Against Women: a Conceptual Proposition
Due to its wide-ranging reservations and lack of effective enforcement mechanisms the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination...
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Workplace Incivility in STEM Organizations: A Typology of STEM Incivility and Affective Consequences for Women Employees
Workplace incivility has been touted as a form of modern discrimination with serious negative consequences for the target. The increasingly unequal...
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Affective Discernment as a Boundary Experience
This article is a theo-phenomenological study on discernment in Eastern Orthodox spirituality, particularly as it is described in the Philokalia and...
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The Epistemic Value of Affective Disruptability
In order to explore how emotions contribute positively or negatively to understanding the meaning of complex socio-culturally specific phenomena, I...
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Interpersonal and Collective Affective Niche Construction: Empirical and Normative Perspectives on Social Media
This paper contributes to the interdisciplinary theory of collective affective niche construction, which extends the extended mind (ExM) thesis from...
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Mencius’s Moral Psychology and Contemporary Cognitive Science
This chapter develops an interdisciplinary and comparative analysis of Mencius’s moral psychology from the perspective of cognitive science. The...
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Affective shifts: mood, emotion and well-being
It is a familiar feature of our affective psychology that our moods ‘crystalize’ into emotions, and that our emotions ‘diffuse’ into moods. Providing...
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Improving the agri-food biotechnology conversation: bridging science communication with science and technology studies
At a time when agri-food biotechnologies are receiving a surge of investment, innovation, and public interest in the United States, it is common to...
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The Route to Artificial Phenomenology; ‘Attunement to the World’ and Representationalism of Affective States
According to dominant views in affective computing, artificial systems e.g. robots and algorithms cannot experience emotion because they lack the...
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Clothing and the Discovery of Science
In addition to natural curiosity, science is characterized by a number of psychological processes and perceptions. Among the psychological features,...
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When Emotional Machines Are Intelligent Machines: Exploring the Tangled Knot of Affective Cognition with Robots
Research in neurobiology has provided evidence that emotions pervade human intelligence at many levels. However, “emotion” and “cognition” are still...
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Science and the Objectification of Values: A Sellarsian Response to the Continental Critique of Science
I develop a neo-Sellarsian framework for distinguishing between an emancipatory and a non-emancipatory dimension of science, namely, about the...
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Nootropics in the Era of Affective Capitalism: Drug Consumption and Discourse Effects
This chapter discusses the transmutation of meaning from psychotropic to nootropic (drugs for cognitive enhancement) as a constituent element of the...
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Posthumanizing Relaxation in Science-Fiction ASMR
Steven Shaviro has asked what it feels like to live in the early twenty-first century, an era in which the concept of the human as a superior being...
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A Closer Look at the Internalization of Drives as Implexes: The Cognitive and Affective Strands
Chapter 4 solved the mystery surrounding the semi-animals and warrior artists Nietzsche refers to in GM II 16....
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Retrieving the Affective Aspect of Human Being: a Hermeneutical Phenomenological Analysis of 存 Cun/Son’s Historical Origin, its Controversial Role in the East Asian Translation of Being/Existence, and Potential Ontological Implications
It is conventionally accepted that while Western philosophy has “being” as a central topic, Eastern thoughts focused only on “nothing”. I will...