Lucy Osler is a Lecturer in Philosophy at Cardiff University in the School of English, Communications and Philosophy. She specialises in phenomenological and 4E approaches to technology, human-AI relations, affectivity, and psychopathology.

Lucy’s research has primarily been concerned with what might be best described as the Philosophy of Digital Society. Using insights from philosophy of mind, philosophy of emotions, feminist philosophy, and philosophy of psychiatry, she is interested in better understanding how our increasingly digitally-saturated lives are shaped and influenced by new technologies. Her work spans topics from feeling togetherness online, the social and emotional implications of interacting with chatbots, digital spaces as affective scaffolding, the influence of algorithmic profiling on our self-narratives, and Pro-Anorexic communities.

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Before starting at Cardiff University in September 2022, Lucy was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Center for Subjectivity Research at the University of Copenhagen on the FWF-funded project ‘Antagonistic Political Emotions’.

Lucy was awarded her PhD in Philosophy by University of Exeter in January 2021. Her thesis is entitled ‘Interpersonal atmospheres: an empathetic account’ and involves a phenomenological analysis of how we experience individuals and groups as having atmopsheres through our feeling bodies. She did her MA in Phenomenology and Philosophy of Mind at the University of Copenhagen, writing her MA thesis on ‘Depression and the Erosion of We-Experiences’.