Carme Isern-Mas
Biographic Data
| ID | 5046844 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Carme Isern-Mas |
| GIVEN NAMES | Carme |
| FAMILY NAME | Isern-Mas |
| SIGNATURE | ISERN-MAS C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universitat de les Illes Balears |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8629-2021 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The Harms of Self-Help Discourse
In this paper, we analyze the potential harms of everyday self-help discourse, particularly in contexts of systemic oppression. After analyzing the core principles of self-help, such as the power of positive thinking, eliminating negative thinking, gratitude, self-knowledge for self-improvement, and individual choice and responsibility, we argue that self-help discourse is likely to perpetuate different forms of harm in conditions of oppression. …
Who Fears Generative Artificial Intelligence? Scale Development and Predictors of Fears Towards GenAI
This study developed and validated the Fears Towards Generative Artificial Intelligence scale, a novel instrument assessing individuals' concerns about emerging generative AI technologies, which are increasingly integrated into daily life. Drawing on qualitative data from three focus groups and subsequent quantitative validation with 303 participants, we initially derived 37 items that captured diverse fears, including concerns about job displace…
Self-Deception: A Case Study in Folk Conceptual Structure
Theoretical debates around the concept of self-deception revolve around identifying the conditions for a behavior to qualify as self-deception. Experiments 1 and 2 revealed that various candidate features—such as intent, belief change, and motive—are treated as sufficient, but non-necessary, conditions according to the lay concept of self-deception. This led us to ask whether there are multiple lay concepts, such that different participants endor…
Unmasking therapy-speak
Therapy-speak is the imprecise and superficial integration of psychotherapy language into everyday communication, especially by privileged or wealthy people. Despite the advantages of normalizing psychotherapy language, such as resisting epistemic injustice and enhancing awareness of mental health issues, therapy-speak raises important concerns. On the epistemic front, therapy-speak is susceptible to the erosion of the meaning and relevance of ps…
Blunting concepts: The double-edged effect of popularizing psychotherapy language
The increasing presence of mental health-related language in everyday conversations gives rise to a worth-exploring tension: while it can enhance mental health literacy and provide individuals with hermeneutical resources to understand and articulate their experiences, it also risks distorting or trivializing these resources, ultimately contributing to hermeneutical injustice. This paper examines this tension from a practice-focused approach to m…
No One Mourns the Wicked: The Ethics of Mourning Morally Flawed Celebrities
The Broadway musical “Wicked” opens with an apotheotic song announcing the death of the Wicked Witch of the West (Schwartz 2003). The characters passionately sing, “No one mourns the wicked, no one cries ‘they won't return!’. No one lays a lily on their grave.” They claim that when morally flawed people die, people do not and should not mourn their death. Indeed, the song continues, “The good man scorns the wicked! Through their lives, our childr…
Implementing conceptual engineering: Lessons from social movements
Communication strategies to shape public opinion can be applied to the philosophical program of conceptual engineering. I propose to look for answers to the implementation challenge for conceptual engineering on similar challenges that arise in other contexts, such as that of social movements. I claim that conceptual engineering is successfully practiced in other areas with direct consequences on the political landscape, and that we can apply to …
Naturalizing Darwall’s Second Person Standpoint
In this paper, we take Darwall’s analytical project of the second-person standpoint as the starting point for a naturalistic project about our moral psychology. In his project, Darwall contends that our moral notions constitutively imply the perspective of second-personal interaction, i.e. the interaction of two mutually recognized agents who make and acknowledge claims on one another. This allows him to explain the distinctive purported authorit…
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Naturalizing Darwall’s Second Person Standpoint
In this paper, we take Darwall’s analytical project of the second-person standpoint as the starting point for a naturalistic project about our moral psychology. In his project, Darwall contends that our moral notions constitutively imply the perspective of second-personal interaction, i.e. the interaction of two mutually recognized agents who make and acknowledge claims on one another. This allows him to explain the distinctive purported authorit…
Implementing conceptual engineering: Lessons from social movements
Communication strategies to shape public opinion can be applied to the philosophical program of conceptual engineering. I propose to look for answers to the implementation challenge for conceptual engineering on similar challenges that arise in other contexts, such as that of social movements. I claim that conceptual engineering is successfully practiced in other areas with direct consequences on the political landscape, and that we can apply to …
Self-Deception: A Case Study in Folk Conceptual Structure
Theoretical debates around the concept of self-deception revolve around identifying the conditions for a behavior to qualify as self-deception. Experiments 1 and 2 revealed that various candidate features—such as intent, belief change, and motive—are treated as sufficient, but non-necessary, conditions according to the lay concept of self-deception. This led us to ask whether there are multiple lay concepts, such that different participants endor…
Unmasking therapy-speak
Therapy-speak is the imprecise and superficial integration of psychotherapy language into everyday communication, especially by privileged or wealthy people. Despite the advantages of normalizing psychotherapy language, such as resisting epistemic injustice and enhancing awareness of mental health issues, therapy-speak raises important concerns. On the epistemic front, therapy-speak is susceptible to the erosion of the meaning and relevance of ps…
Blunting concepts: The double-edged effect of popularizing psychotherapy language
The increasing presence of mental health-related language in everyday conversations gives rise to a worth-exploring tension: while it can enhance mental health literacy and provide individuals with hermeneutical resources to understand and articulate their experiences, it also risks distorting or trivializing these resources, ultimately contributing to hermeneutical injustice. This paper examines this tension from a practice-focused approach to m…
No One Mourns the Wicked: The Ethics of Mourning Morally Flawed Celebrities
The Broadway musical “Wicked” opens with an apotheotic song announcing the death of the Wicked Witch of the West (Schwartz 2003). The characters passionately sing, “No one mourns the wicked, no one cries ‘they won't return!’. No one lays a lily on their grave.” They claim that when morally flawed people die, people do not and should not mourn their death. Indeed, the song continues, “The good man scorns the wicked! Through their lives, our childr…
The Harms of Self-Help Discourse
In this paper, we analyze the potential harms of everyday self-help discourse, particularly in contexts of systemic oppression. After analyzing the core principles of self-help, such as the power of positive thinking, eliminating negative thinking, gratitude, self-knowledge for self-improvement, and individual choice and responsibility, we argue that self-help discourse is likely to perpetuate different forms of harm in conditions of oppression. …
Who Fears Generative Artificial Intelligence? Scale Development and Predictors of Fears Towards GenAI
This study developed and validated the Fears Towards Generative Artificial Intelligence scale, a novel instrument assessing individuals' concerns about emerging generative AI technologies, which are increasingly integrated into daily life. Drawing on qualitative data from three focus groups and subsequent quantitative validation with 303 participants, we initially derived 37 items that captured diverse fears, including concerns about job displace…
Philosophy (4 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Social Psychology (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Feminist Epistemology and Gender Studies (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment (2 works)