K.J.R. Goffin
Research profile
My research focuses on philosophy of cognitive science (including AI) & mind, moral psychology, and aesthetics.
I have done research on implicit bias (such as implicit prejudices and stereotypes), emotions, moral psychology, aesthetic experiences, and various interactions between these topics.
In current research, I focus on emotional A.I.
Research projects
I am the coordinator for the OZSW Moral Psychology Group and organizer of:
Moral Psychology and Technology (Maastricht, 29 May 2025)
Moral Psychology of AI (Maastricht, Spring 2026)
Recent publications
Other publications
Gabriels, K., & Goffin, K. (2026). Therapy chatbots and emotional complexity: do therapy chatbots really empathise?. Current Opinion in Psychology, 102263.
Goffin, K. & Archer, A. (2025) Affective AI, Affective Injustice, and Emotion Recognition Software. Philosophical Psychology. (Published online).
Goffin, K. (2025) Biased Fear. In A. Harbin (ed.) The Moral Psychology of Fear. Lexington: Rowman and Littlefield.
Friend, S. & Goffin, K. (2025) Chatbot-Fictionalism and Empathetic AI: Should we worry about AI when AI worries about us? Philosophical Psychology (published online).
Goffin, K., & Moors, A. (2023). Implicit bias, belief, and fiction. In A. James, F. Lavocat, & A. Kubo (Eds.), Routledge Handbook of Belief and Fiction. Routledge.
Goffin, K. (2023) Belgian Solutions. British Journal of Aesthetics, ayad009.
Goffin, K. (2023) Better Scared Then Sorry: The Pragmatic Account of Emotional Representation. Erkenntnis, 88 (6), 2633-2650.
Goffin, K. (2022b) The Linguistic Fallacy & The Complex Content of Emotion. Philosophical Psychology. (published online)
Goffin, K. (2022a) Biased Emotions: Implicit Bias, Emotion & Attributability. Review of Philosophy and Psychology. (published online)
Goffin, K. (2021) 100 x Congo. A Century of Congolese Art in Antwerp: Exhibition Review. British Journal of Aesthetics, 61 (3), 387-389.
Goffin, K. (2019b) An empirical investigation of guilty pleasures. Philosophical Psychology, 32 (7), 1129-1155. (with Cova, F.)
Goffin, K. (2019a) The affective experience of aesthetic properties. Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, 100, 283–300.
Goffin, K. (2018) Philosophical aesthetics and cognitive science. WIREs Cognitive Science, 9 (1), (with Meskin, A., Robson, J., Ichino, A., and Monseré, A.).
Goffin,K. (2014) Music feels like moods feel. Frontiers in Psychology 5, 327.
Goffin, K. (2012) The poems are finding words for us, in Geert Grote Alliantie(ed.) Nederlandstalige master scripties van vijf jonge filosofen, Deventer: Deventer University Press, 67–129.
NON-ACADEMIC / OUTREACH PUBLICATIONS
(2024) Filosofiekalender (this is a calendar with bits of philosophy; I wrote some of them)
(2022) Come Get Your Honey: Philosopher’s Comment. Philosophy & Photography Lab. https://phlsph-lab.com/expand/come-get-your-honey?fbclid=IwAR1P3V6pfwr6EyoirLrwxqcVCDFkT7uQdKhCJSMFLygGr7PkeO9K7ryGsAE
(2014) You Too Can Awesomize Yourself, in L. von Matterhorn (Ed.), How I met your mother and philosophy. Chicago, IL, USA: Open Court, 15–27.