Antisocial and prosocial behaviors differ qualitatively in terms of the neurocognitive processes that underlie them and variables that promote or inhibit them. Here is a taxonomy from my Moral Behaviors chapter in the new Handbook of Social Psychology. openpublishing.princeton.edu/read/moral-beh…

Conference on Ai Assertion. Program here: talkingtobots.net/?page_id=15

🚨 New preprint! We think we've found something fascinating about prosociality. One of the big questions in social science is: When, and how, do humans become prosocial? To tell something new, we designed a unique experiment combining three characteristics: 1) We tested a

My Oxford Schmidt AI keynote lecture: How current AI works (its a cultural technology like writing and print), and how it could work to be genuinely intelligent like kids (with intrinsic rewards like empowerment, causal model-building, and care). youtube.com/watch?v=bSlqS4…

🚨 Still time to register and join the conference online! Join us online this Thursday–Friday (June 26–27) for the Basel-Oxford-NUS Experimental Philosophical Bioethics (BioXPhi) Summit 2025. 🔗 Program & online registration: ibmb.unibas.ch/en/public-outr…

The 2nd podcast of Young Academy of Europe (YAE) featuring Renaud Jolivet, the 2023 André Mischke YAE Prize for Science and Policy awardee has been released just now. Prize recognizes early- to mid-career researchers excelling both in science and science policy. youtube.com/watch?v=tINIGM…

Out now: A Companion to Applied Philosophy of A (edited by Regina Müller & Martin Hähnel), featuring my contribution "The Future of Human Responsibility: AI, Responsibility Gaps, and Asymmetries Between Praise and Blame": doi.org/10.1002/978139… #aiethics #Philosophy

New studies on the ordinary concept of disease (from Varga, Latham & Machery) The surprising result: People are more inclined to think that what you have counts as a “disease” if you are a morally bad person philpapers.org/archive/VARTWA… Geography of Philosophy Project

Some more info here ibmb.unibas.ch/en/public-outr… Basel-Oxford-NUS BioXPhi Summit 2025 | Institute for Biomedical Ethics | University of Basel

Søren Holm & Jonathan Lewis, Neural Organoids – How should we handle the Possibility of Sentience? - PhilPapers philpapers.org/rec/HOLNOB

New PNAS paper (Great work Ivan Kroupin): The cultural construction of executive function. By comparing cognitive development in diverse communities, with & without schools, we find different cognitive developmental trajectories. Michael Muthukrishna pnas.org/doi/abs/10.107…

🔥New paper in PNAS Nexus with Michael Bang Petersen "Motivations to connect with like-minded audiences increase partisan sharing on social media" academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/arti…

🏆El investigador Borja Franco y su equipo han recibido el Premio #EuropaNostra de Investigación por un proyecto impulsado por la Beca Leonardo para entender el legado islámico en Europa y en los países mediterráneos 🎉¡Enhorabuena! Toda la información📜bbva.info/3IenEYl

Last week, the IBMB - Institute for Biomedical Ethics - University of Basel hosted the 2025 Experimental Philosophical Bioethics (BioXPhi) Summit, in collaboration with NUS Centre for Biomedical Ethics and Uehiro Oxford Institute. It was great to engage with cutting-edge Bioethics research and to present preliminary results from our National Research Programme NRP 79 study on animal research dilemmas.

New work 🚨 led by Sebastian Porsdam Mann, with Julian Savulescu and me: "When to Create Embryos or Organoids for Research" researchgate.net/publication/39…

Comparing the value of perceived human versus AI-generated empathy - Nature Human Behaviour nature.com/articles/s4156…

Now published, open access: On Religious Influence in Bioethics: The Limits of Pluriversalism onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

"moralities are best understood as emerging from human culture in response to the need to promote and regulate interpersonal cooperation" cambridge.org/core/elements/…

Nouvel article en open access, en collaboration avec Federico Seragnoli, dans lequel nous spéculons sur le rôle que pourraient jouer certaines émotions dans les thérapies basées sur des psychédéliques : tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

New work 🚨led by NUS Centre for Biomedical Ethics visiting PhD student Yueying Chu, along with @PengLiu20233 and Julian Savulescu: Road Rage Against the Machine: Humans and LLMs Share a Blame Bias Against Driverless Cars: International Journal of Human–Computer Interaction: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…