Aida Roige

Recent news and updates

• A paper co-written with Aarón Álvarez-González, "Conceptual Foundations of Affective Polarization: Two Notions of Affect", will soon be published at the European Journal of Analytic Philosophy. Stay tuned!

• I presented «On the Possibility of Mixed Affective States» at the Workshop on Representation and Affect in Cognitive Science, May 26th-27th, at Barcelona (UB).

• I organized the first Taller Profesionalizador de Investigación en Humanidades, aimed at doctoral students, at the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, on May 7th 2026.

• I gave two talks in Valencia: at the Congrés Valencià de Filosofia (16-18th April) and the workshop New Approaches to Evidence: Perspectives on Evidential Pluralism (23th-24th). I am currently on a research stay at UV until mid-July.

• My latest OPC piece, titled "When It Comes to AI for Mental Health, the Real Problem Isn't in the AIs Seeking FDA Approval, but in Those That Don't", is now published at The American Journal of Bioethics.

• I presented at the 2026 meeting of the APA Eastern Division (Baltimore, Jan, 7-10th 2026) on mechanistic special sciences' kinds. 

• 2025 --My paper "How is the mind/brain composed? Two sorts of mechanisms in cognitive science" has just been published at Review of Philosophy and Psychology! https://doi.org/10.1007/s13164-025-00781-0 

• My OPC piece titled "Helping without hijacking: Decision science and the ethics of treatment adherence" appears now at the journal AJOB Neuroscience: https://doi.org/10.1080/21507740.2025.2519443 

• I gave a talk on mechanisms and special science kinds at the METIS seminar of UNED, Madrid, on Dec. 9th.

• I presented "Creativity in AI and humans: lessons from the history of intelligence" at the workshop "The Composition of Creative Intelligence", this past October 3rd 2025 in Barcelona.

• New book chapter alert! This was part of the work on love we started in Vancouver with Jas Heaton and Carrie Jenkins about 10 years ago. It's in Alex King (ed): Art & Philosophy: New Essays at the Intersection. Oxford University Press.  https://doi.org/10.1093/9780191815423.003.0032 

• I presented “Special science kinds from a mechanistic standpoint” at the 2025 meeting of the International Society for the History, Philosophy, and Social Studies of Biology in Porto, Portugal, July 20-25 2025; and also in Valencia, at the Workshop of the project Mechanism-based approaches to causation in evolutionary biology in November!

• I gave a talk at VLC Philosophy Lab Colloquium, on May 23rd 2025, on what kind of thing are mental disorders. Independently, we also did a joint presentation with Aaron Álvarez Gonzalez at the VLC Rural Lab, May 17th!

• "Can AI solve science?" This is the interesting question posed at the Image Processing Lab at the University of Valencia. A panel of a physicist, an AI engineer, and a philosopher (myself) answered it from the perspective of our discipline, followed by a few hours of discussion in which, surprisingly, we arrived at a consensus! Here are some pictures of the event, which took place on April 14th 2025.

• On April 3rd 2025 I gave a talk titled "Podem saber si els animals són conscients?" at the XXII Seminari Anual de la Secció de Filosofia Analítica de la Societat Catalana de Filosofia. You can see the full program here.