Paula Sweeney

My new book is out today! Did you ever see a more festive philosophy book?! 🤖🎄rowman.com/ISBN/978153818…

Personal avatars and Dementia: New paper in Philosophy and Technology that seeks to build on the research of those working on the ethics of ghostbots/ deathbots/ continuing bond bots and apply it to dementia care.

📰 Check out our @psweeneyphilos's latest paper, 'Persons, Unique Value and Avatars', now out in Minds and Machines, in which she explores whether personal avatars / digital duplicates might undermine the value humans hold by virtue of their uniqueness. link.springer.com/article/10.100…

“Where no proxy has gone before…”. I will continue my painfully difficult exploration of how avatars will undermine the value of human uniqueness despite being proxies. The inaugural event of Mihaela Constantinescu’s ERC project ❤️avataresponsibility.ccea.ro/current-editio…

My discussion of @JohnDanaher and @SvenNyholm's paper on Digital Duplicates and Scarcity is now out in Philosophy and Technology (available open access). link.springer.com/epdf/10.1007/s…

@JohnDanaher Thing 1 to thing 2, ‘you look nice today’. Thing 2 to thing 1, ‘I love your earrings’. No?

@AlexFisher32 Looks great Alex! Have added to my ‘must reads’ 👍🏻

Objects and events in virtual reality don't *really* exist. But then how come some actions in virtual reality can have an emotional impact as if they were real? And if none of it exists, how can we wrong others in virtual worlds? I show how. Pre-print: philpapers.org/rec/FISEAE-3

Would you like to do a fully-funded PhD with me @AstonUniversity @AstonLawSchool ? Topic: AI and the Post-Mortem: Shaping Legal Frameworks for Digital Remains, international fees covered too! Please get in touch and apply by 3 June here aston.ac.uk/graduate-schoo…

We are currently looking for a part-time lecturer in Logic and Metaphysics to provide a teaching replacement for Dr. Aaron Cotnoir and Prof. Franz Berto, who have their teaching duties reduced until December 31st, 2028. For more info see below: jobs.ac.uk/job/DGV022/lec…

Excited to be in Aberdeen this weekend at this workshop on the Philosophy of Avatars. Thank you to @psweeneyphilos for organising! Will present how time spent playing as an avatar/character can lead to our adopting their outlook and traits, and some moral concerns that result.

Just in time for my lecture on Chapter 6: responsibility and technology: mind the gap(s). @SvenNyholm

We're hiring again! Applications are sought for a Research Fellow (postdoc) on @Franz_Berto 's 4-year Leverhulme funded project ‘What if…? Knowing by imagining (WIKI). The Logic and Rationality of Imagination’. Deadline 30th of April. Further info here: vacancies.st-andrews.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/30…

@taijidubh @welshjb @LNFGlasgow @FedLuzzi Yes! It’s on regular rotation ❤️

Right, first play for this beauty @LNFGlasgow

Favourite pic of the holidays—my youngest and my mum. Little and large! 😂🥰❤️

@AidanMcGlynn Thanks Aidan!

My new book is out today! Did you ever see a more festive philosophy book?! 🤖🎄rowman.com/ISBN/978153818…

@stephantorre Thanks Stephan!

@psweeneyphilos Hooray!!! Big Congratulations! Glad it arrived in time for the holiday season! And yes, it looks great on (or under) the tree!

@EilidhBeaton4 Thanks Eilidh!

@psweeneyphilos Congratulations, Paula!

@profmdwhite @JohnDanaher Thank you!

@psweeneyphilos @JohnDanaher Congrats!

@MichelleMacleo4 Thanks!

@psweeneyphilos Congratulations Paula 🎊