Şerife Tekin, PhD

Whatever happened to anonymous refereeing? I keep receiving review requests from journals that disclose the authors’ identities. My response is no.

Taken together, the collection offers a rich and timely resource for teaching and discussion on the use of AI in mental health care.

We’re looking forward to engaging each of them in our forthcoming response.

Beyond Doomsday Fears: Why We Need to Consider the Potential Harms of AI Psychotherapy There is increased enthusiasm about the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies in psychotherapy. Notably, AI psychotherapy chatbots are increasing in popularity, especially since the US F...

Our target article, “Beyond Doomsday Fears: Why We Need to Consider the Potential Harms of AI Psychotherapy,” is now out in the American Journal of Bioethics, accompanied by 15 terrific commentaries. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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like every year at this time of hte year, I am revieweing applications for the postdoc positions at the @center4philsci.bsky.social and here are some observations that might be useful for future applicants.

HELP! I FELL IN LOVE WITH MY AI — Jerk Magazine With Artificial Intelligence on the rise, some users turn to their chat bots for companionship

I was interviewed by the Jerk Magazine on AI and love.

“Help: I Fell in Love With My AI,” by Blakesley Rhett,

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How to talk to your kids about AI chatbots and their safety Are you a parent trying to navigate the ever-changing AI chatbot landscape? We asked experts on adolescent psychiatry and psychology for their tips about how to talk to children about AI chatbots. Her...

Was interviewed by Politifact on AI safety and children:
www.politifact.com/article/2025...

Reiss Family Visiting Lectureship: "What Do We Owe the Black Prisoners of Stateville? " - Evening Ethics at Salt City Market The Center for Bioethics and Humanities at SUNY Upstate Medical University is proud to present this year's Reiss Lecturer in Ethics and Equity, Dr. James Tabery Dr. James Tabery, a philosopher of sci...

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Reiss Family Visiting Lectureship: "Unfit to Reproduce, Unfit to Parent, Unfit to Decide:" - CBH Grand Rounds RSVP The Center for Bioethics and Humanities at SUNY Upstate Medical University is proud to present this year's Reiss Lecturer in Ethics and Equity, Dr. James Tabery. Dr. James Tabery, a philosopher of s...

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We’re excited to welcome Dr. Jim Tabery as this year’s Reiss Lecturer in Ethics and Equity at SUNY Upstate’s Center for Bioethics and Humanities, April 23–24, 2026. Events are open to the public—register below and spread the word!

Thank YOU, Seiara!

In 2025 I published a paper opening with an episode of The Good Place (linked below) and one opening with an episode of Seinfeld (with @dryan149.bsky.social, here link.springer.com/article/10.1...)

Stay tuned, next goal is a Ted Lasso one

Remembering the human in psychiatry: balancing science and humanism Published in Philosophical Psychology (Ahead of Print, 2025)

Really grateful for a thoughtful and thorough review of my book by Seiara Imanova @seiaraimanova.bsky.social, just out in Philosophical Psychology! @journalphp.bsky.social
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Great review of @thebusyowl.bsky.social's book!

Reclaiming the Self in Psychiatry is an extremely well written and empowering book that can appeal to an interdisciplinary audience ... it brings lived experience back into the heart of psychiatry

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Şerife Tekin & Chris Packham, The Philosophy of Space Exploration (PoSE): An Immersive Course to Explore and Inspire Next Generation Ethical Considerations - PhilPapers There are periods of time in humanity when a true inflection point in advancement occurs. Consider the industrial revolution, the (first) space race, or the dawn of the information age. It ...

Last pub of the year! The Philosphy of Space Exploration: An Immersive Course to Explore Next Generation Ethical Considerations. Co-authored with my friend Chris Packham based on a course we co-thought at UTSA in 2022.
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On my way to the upside down for this cool workshop!
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such an honor!
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Philosophy Speaker Series: Bridging Science and Testimony: The Multitudinous Self Model for a Humanist Psychiatry – Department of Philosophy | Faculty of Humanities | McMaster University

So happy to be back in Canada 🍁 to give a talk at McMaster. Canada was my first home away from home as a 22 yr old MA student, and it still feels that way.

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Just started -- but it's been brewing for a while, as both @ledaberio.bsky.social and I have been much inspired by recent very cool work by many others, especially @thebusyowl.bsky.social, Elizabeth Schechter, and Daniela Dover

Challenges to Narrating a Multitudinous Self: Towards a Better Ethics of Code-switching - Topoi We motivate and lay out the broad contours of a research program, namely that of developing a systematic ethics of code-switching. Such an ethics will articulate the values and norms that should gover...

🚨New Paper!🚨

Do you love authenticity? @ledaberio.bsky.social and I argue that maybe you shouldn't!

We think that everything would be better if we all just got over the idea of true selves and were cooler with the fact that we all contain multitudes.

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DenkWerkstatt - FUTURE EVENTS DenkWerkstatt - zur Invasion akedemischer Elfenbeintürme

On my way to Skilled Social Interactions in the Age of AI Workshop at the University of Florida to present new work by @lizbowen.bsky.social and I: www.denkwerkstatt.berlin/FUTURE-EVENTS/

New discount code for my book! Just in time for the holidayzzz!

This article raises concerns about the lack of consideration of potential harms of this technology for clinical trial participants, and current and future users.

There is increased enthusiasm about the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies in psychotherapy. Notably, AI psychotherapy chatbots are increasing in popularity, especially since the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) gave one of these apps breakthrough device designation.

Open Peer Commentary (OPC) proposals of roughly one paragraph are due Monday, November 10th. Please submit your proposal via the AJOB Editorial site: mc.manuscriptcentral.com/uajb

Consider proposing a commentary to the American Journal of Bioethics on the forthcoming paper Megan Delehanty and I wrote on the harms of AI psychotherapy chatbots!

Thank you! and indeed; it is astounding how there is no oversight or regulation.

Beyond Doomsday Fears: Why We Need to Consider the Potential Harms of AI Psychotherapy There is increased enthusiasm about the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies in psychotherapy. Notably, AI psychotherapy chatbots are increasing in popularity, especially since the US F...

There is not a lot of transparency about the design of these apps, that is part of the challenge in assessing their potential efficacy. We talk about this a little bit in this paper: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

"There’s really barely any evidence that shows that [AI therapy chatbots] are in fact effective...We do not have longitudinal studies that look at people with diagnosis of mental disorders who did not have any other kind of help, who used these chatbots, and can say that they benefited from these.”