Edited Volume

Osler, L. & Szanto, T. eds. (2026). For, against, together: Rethinking antagonistic political emotions. Cambridge University Press.

Journal Articles and Book Chapters

Forthcoming

Osler, L. (forthcoming). Knowing oneself with and through AI. In I. Werkheiser and M. Butler (eds.) Finding Our Place in the Digital World: Philosophical Essays on Technology, Phenomenology, and the Environment. Springer Publishing.

Osler, L. (forthcoming). Disappearing the body: A phenomenological view of AI and anorexia nervosa. Journal of Eating Disorders.

Osler, L. (forthcoming). Online Rituals. In L. Dolezal & D. Petherbridge (eds). Feelings of Belonging.

Krueger, J., Osler, L., & Roberts, T. (forthcoming). Lonely atmospheres, obsolete affordances, and the aesthetics of digital decay. Phenomenology & Mind.

2026

Osler, L. (2026). Hallucinating with AI: distributed delusions and “AI psychosis”. Philosophy & Technology, 39(1), 30. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13347-026-01034-3

Krueger, J., & Osler, L. (2026). AI gossip. Ethics and Information Technology, 28,10. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10676-025-09871-0

McGilchrist, I., Osler, L., & Blease, C. (2026). Will AI do more harm than good to the UK's mental health? BMJ, 393:e953015. [link]

Hedges, T., & Osler. L. (2026). Affective doubt and antagonistic politics. In L. Osler & T. Szanto (eds.) For, Against, Together: Antagonistic Political Emotions. CUP.

Osler, L., Roberts, T. & Krueger, J. (2026). Lonely Objects and Obsolete Affordances. In A. Seeman, E. Hughes, J. Krueger, & T. Roberts (eds), An Interdisciplinary Investigation of Loneliness. Bloomsbury.

2025

Osler, L. (2025). Narrative Railroading. Topoi, 44, 379–392 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11245-024-10146-4

Osler, L. (2025). Mindshaping and narrative devices. Routledge Handbook of Mindshaping. Eds. T. Zadiwski. 1-13.

Krueger, J., Osler, L., & Roberts, T. (2025). Expanding the phenomenology of social anxiety disorder: Loneliness, absence, and bodily doubt. Philosophy, Psychiatry, & Psychology, 32(1), 11-14.

2024

Osler, L. (2024). (Self-)Envy, Digital Technology, and Me. Topoi. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11245-024-10047-6

Osler, L. (2024). Taking Empathy Online. Inquiry, 67(1), 302-329. DOI: 10.1080/0020174X.2021.1899045[link]

Lavallee, Z., & Osler, L. (2024). Affordances and the Shape of Addiction. Philosophy, Psychiatry, and Psychology. [link]

Roberts, T., & Osler, L. (2024). Social doubt. Journal of the American Philosophical Association, https://doi.org/10.1017/apa.2022.40

Osler, L., & Ekdahl, D. (2024). Learning to Walk and Talk (Again): What Developmental Psychology Can Teach Us About Online Intersubjectivity. Philosophical Explorations. 1-14. https://doi.org/10.1080/13869795.2024.2344981‍ ‍

Osler, L., Engelen, B., & Archer, A. (2024). The Ethics and Politics of Nudges and Niches: A Critical Analysis of Exclusionary Environmental Designs. In Preventing Crime by Exclusion: Ethical Considerations. Eds. T Søbirk Petersen, Sebastian Jon Holm, and Jesper Ryberg. (pp. 182-206) Routledge.

Osler, L. (2024). Networked Learning and the Promises of Phenomenology. In Phenomenology in Action: Researching Networked Learning Experiences. (pp. 23-43). Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland. [link]

Osler, L. (2024). Belonging online: rituals, sacred objects, and mediated interactions. In L. Dolezal & D. Petherbridge (eds). Feelings of Belonging. SUNY Press [link]

Osler, L., & Tietjen, R.R. (2024). Affects and Emotions: Antagonism, Allegiance, and Beyond. In S. Loidolt et al. (Eds.). Routledge Handbook to Political Phenomenology. [link]

Osler, L. (2024). Self-Envy (or Envy Actually). APA Studies in Feminism and Philosophy.

2023

Ekdahl, D., & Osler, L. (2023). Expressive Avatars: Vitality in Virtual Worlds. Philosophy & Technology, 36, 24. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13347-023-00628-5

Archer, A., Maibom, H., Gatyas, M., Krueger, J., & Osler, L.. (2023). Editor’s Introduction. Passion: Journal of the European Philosophical Society for the Study of Emotions. 1.1: 1-4.https://doi.org/10.59123/passion.v1i1.14955

Osler, L. (2023). WTF?! - Covid-19, Indignation, and the Internet. Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11097-023-09889-z

Krueger, J., Osler, L., & Roberts, T. (2023). Loneliness and absence in psychopathology. Topoi. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11245-023-09916-3

2022

Osler, L. & Zahavi, D. (2022). Sociality and embodiment: online communication during and after Covid-19. Foundations of Science. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10699-022-09861-1 [link]

Osler, L. (2022). “An illness of isolation, a disease of disconnection”: Depression and the erosion of we-experiences. Frontiers in Psychology. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.928186 [link]

Krueger, J. & Osler, L. (2022). Communing with the dead online: chatbots, grief, and continuing bonds. Journal of Consciousness Studies, 29 (9-10), 222-252 [link]

Osler, L. (2022). Mediated encounters in autistic spectrum disorder: from the material to the digital. Philosophy, Psychiatry, & Psychology.

Osler, L. & Krueger, J. (2022). Taking Watsuji online: betweenness and expression in online spaces. Continental Philosophy Review. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11007-021-09548-7 [link]

Osler, L. (2022). Empathy, togetherness, and familiarity: from offline to online. Metodo. [link]

Osler, L. (2022). Reality + Reality-: A review of Reality+ by David Chalmers. Philosophical Psychology. [link]

2021

Osler, L. (2021). Bodily saturation and social disconnnectedness in depression. Phenomenology and Mind, 21, 46-61 [link]

Osler, L. & Krueger, J. (2021). ProAna worlds: affectivity and echo chambers online. Topoi. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11245-021-09785-8 [link]

Osler, L. & Szanto, T. (2021). Political emotions and political atmospheres. In Shared Emotions and Atmospheres, eds. D. Trigg. Routledge. [link]

Osler, L. (2021). Controlling the noise: a phenomenological account of Anorexia Nervosa and the threatening body. Philosophy, Psychiatry, & Psychology, 28:1, 41-58. [link]

Osler, L. (2021). (Un)wanted feelings in Anorexia Nervosa -making the visceral body mine again. Response to commentaries of Michelle Maiese and Drew Leder. Philosophy, Psychiatry, & Psychology, 28:1, 67-69. [link]

Osler, L. (2021). Interpersonal atmospheres: an empathetic account. [Doctoral dissertation, University of Exeter]. University of Exeter Repository. [link]

2020

Osler, L (2020). Feeling togetherness online: a phenomenological sketch of online communal experiences. Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences, 19:3, 569-588. [link]

Krueger, J., & Osler, L. (2020). Agency, environmental scaffolding, and the development of eating disorders - commentary on Rodemeyer. In Time and Body: Phenomenological and Psychopathological Approaches, eds. Christian Tewes and Giovanni Stanghellini. Cambridge University Press. 256-262. [link]

2019

Krueger, J., & Osler, L. (2019). Engineering affect: emotion regulation, the internet, and the techno-social niche. Philosophical Topics. 47.2: 1-53. [link]

2016

Osler, L (2016). Is Direct Social Perception a banal thesis? A phenomenological response to Spaulding's critique of Direct Social Perception. Journal of Media, Cognition and Communication. Vol 4(2). [link]

Public Science Posts

Osler, L. (2023). Narrative Devices. Open for Debate blog. https://blogs.cardiff.ac.uk/openfordebate/narrative-devices/

Osler, L. (2023). Extended mind-wandering and cognitive rail-roading. The Brains Blog. https://philosophyofbrains.com/2023/02/09/extended-mind-wandering-and-cognitive-rail-roading.aspx

Osler, L. (2022). Spaces of Loneliness, Spaces of Intimacy. Thinkful.ie.https://thinkful.ie/articles/spaces-of-lonliness

Osler, L. (2020). See you online. The Philosophers’ Magazine. 90(3): 80-86. [link]