Dr. René Baston

• Forthcoming. When Is Suicide Unexpected? A Normative-Explanatory Account of Suicidal Action. Review of Philosophy and Psychology.

• Baston, R., & Weichold, M. (Eds.). (2025). Exploring Suicidal Ambivalence: Philosophical and Psychological Perspectives. Routledge. 

• Baston, R. (2025). Balancing life and death desires: A philosophical examination for suicide risk assessment. Mortality, 31(1), 125–138. https://doi.org/10.1080/13576275.2025.2499554

• Baston, R. (2024). Beyond prediction: A new paradigm for understanding suicide risk. Synthese, 204(1), 35. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-024-04689-7

• Baston, R. (2024). To delay or not to delay: Procrastination and suicide prevention. Philosophical Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1080/09515089.2024.2360129

• Baston, R. (2023). Why Attitudes Are Not Character Traits. Grazer Philosophische Studien, 99 (4): 524–43. https://doi.org/10.1163/18756735-00000180

• Baston, R. (2022). Proactive control and agency. Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences, 1-19. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11097-022-09830-w

• Baston, R. (2022). The Nurturing Stance, Implicit Biases, and Moral Responsibility. Journal of the American Philosophical Association, 1-20. https://doi.org/10.1017/apa.2021.45

• Baston, R. (2022). What underlies Death/Suicide Implicit Association Test measures and how it contributes to suicidal action. Philosophical Psychology, 1-24. https://doi.org/10.1080/09515089.2022.2061342

• Baston, R. (2022). From old-fashioned to offensive racism: How social norms determine the measurement object of prejudice questionnaires. Philosophical Psychology, 1-23. https://doi.org/10.1080/09515089.2022.2029386

• Baston, R., & Kenyah-Damptey, B (2020). Unintentional Trolling: How Subjects Express Their Prejudices Through Made-up Stories. Philosophy & Technology, 34, 667-682. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13347-020-00425-4

• Baston, R. (2020). Implizite Vorurteile: Wie unbewusster Rassismus unser Denken begleitet. J.B. Metzler.

• Baston, R. (2018). Two flaws concerning belief accounts of implicit biases. Philosophical Psychology, 31(3), 352–367. https://doi.org/10.1080/09515089.2017.1417980

• Baston, R., & Vosgerau, G. (2016). Implicit attitudes and implicit prejudices. Philosophical Psychology, 29(6), 889–903. https://doi.org/10.1080/09515089.2016.1181260

• Baston, R. OHNE ABSICHT, Gehirn&Geist, 12/22. Thema: Impliziter und struktureller Rassismus.

• Baston, R. NICHT MEHR SEIN WOLLEN, Gehirn&Geist, 02/23. Thema:  Warum sich Suizide nicht vorhersagen lassen.

• Baston, R. WISSENSWEITERGABE VON STEREOTYPEN, Themenhefte polizeilicher Bildung: Polizei und Wissen (Hrsg., Prof. S. Anastasiadis), 2024.

VORTRÄGE

• 2024 Beyond Prediction: A New Paradigm for Understanding Suicide Risk an der ESPP
• 2024 (European Society of Philosophy and Psychology Konferenz) in Grenoble, Frankreich.
• 2022 Improving Self-Control through the Practice of Moral Responsibility: Implicit Biases and the Nurturing Stance an der GAP.11 (11. Kongress der Gesellschaft für Analytische Philosophie) in Berlin.
• 2022 Is there a new psychological type of racism? About the role of social norms for prejudice questionnaires an der ‘European Society of Philosophy and Psychology‘ Konferenz in Mailand, Italien.
• 2021 The Nurturing Stance, Moral Responsibility, and Implicit Biases an der ‘European Society of Philosophy and Psychology’ Online-Konferenz.
• 2018 There are no layers in social cognition bei dem ‘How Implicit is Implicit Bias‘ Workshop in Antwerpen, Belgien.
• 2018 How ideological is prejudice research? an der ‘European Society of Philosophy and Psychology‘ Konferenz in Rijeka, Koratien.
• 2017 Discrimination at the Micro and Macro Level and Prejudice Reduction Strategies an der Konferenz ‘50 years of naming institutional racism: realizing racial equity or intensifying injustices’ in Melbourne, Australien.
• 2017 “Sorry, I couldn’t resist” – implicit biases and why we are responsible for their damages an der ‘European Society of Philosophy and Psychology‘ Konferenz in Hatfield, England.
• 2016 Implicit Attitudes and Implicit Prejudices – A Dispositional Account an der ‘European Society of Philosophy and Psychology‘ Konferenz in St Andrews, Schottland.
• 2014 What does it mean to have implicit prejudices? an der Konferenz für ‘Junge Analytische Philosophie‘ in Salzburg, Österreich.