Laura Candiotto
I'm Associate Professor in Philosophy at the University of Pardubice, Czech Republic, and at University of Cagliari, Italy. I am a member of the Centre for Ethics (UPCE). I'm the PI of the project "Vicious Epistemic Cultures" (funded by the Czech Science Foundation). I am also the Team Leader of “Loving is Caring: Towards a Platonic Care Ethics“. I am a team member of "Beyond Security" (Excellence Project, Comenius funding), workpackage "Environmental Emotions in the Anthropocene". My main research field is philosophy of emotions at the crisscross of social epistemology and the ethics of knowledge. I mostly employ enactive, pragmatist, existentialist and situated affectivity frameworks, withing a broader non-reductionist and anti-individualist accounts in the philosophy of mind and cognition (4E cognition). I am also a Plato scholar, working on the role of embodiment and social embeddedness in Plato's epistemology. Previous affiliations: Alexander von Humboldt Senior Research Fellow of the Institute of Philosophy at the Free University Berlin, Germany; Marie Curie Research Fellow at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland; visiting researcher at the IMéRA Institute of Advanced Study of the Aix-Marseille University, France; post-doctoral fellow at Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Italy. For further info please visit my personal website: www.emotionsfirst.org
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Topics covered in this wide-ranging collection include: cognitive linguistics applied to Homeric and early Greek texts, Roman cultural semantics, linguistic embodiment in Latin literature, group identities in Greek lyric, cognitive dissonance in historiography, kinesthetic empathy in Sappho, artificial intelligence in Hesiod and Greek drama, the enactivism of Roman statues and memory and art in the Roman Empire.
This ground-breaking work is the first to organize the field, allowing both scholars and students access to the methodologies, bibliographies and techniques of the cognitive sciences and how they have been applied to classics.
- Focuses on the different roles that emotions play in our life, particularly their role in knowledge;
- Investigates the epistemological value of emotions in reasoning, a prominent research programme in the cognitive sciences.
This innovative new volume analyses the role of emotions in knowledge acquisition. It focuses on the field of philosophy of emotions at the exciting intersection between epistemology and philosophy of mind and cognitive science to bring us an in-depth analysis of the
epistemological value of emotions in reasoning. With twelve chapters by leading and up-and coming academics, this edited collection shows that emotions do count for our epistemic enterprise. Against scepticism about the possible positive role emotions play in knowledge, the
authors highlight the how and the why of this potential, lucidly exploring the key aspects of the functionality of emotions. This is explored in relation to: specific kinds of knowledge such
as self-understanding, group-knowledge and wisdom; specific functions played by certain emotions in these cases, such as disorientation in enquiry and contempt in practical reason;
the affective experience of the epistemic subjects and communities.
Le regain d’intérêt contemporain pour la philosophie pratique et notamment pour la discussion et la délibération philosophiques incite à une réflexion sur les enjeux philosophiques, éthiques et politiques de la parole philosophique, des lieux et des pratiques dans lesquelles cette parole prend forme et s’exerce. Les textes ici réunis dans les Actes d’un colloque qui s’est tenu à Aix en Provence les 7 et 8 décembre 2013 contribuent à une telle réflexion en s’appuyant notamment sur la figure de Socrate à l’agora comme lieu de rencontre entre philosophes appartenant au monde académique et praticiens des « dialogues philosophiques » contemporains. Ont contribué à cet ouvrage : Dries Boele, Laura Candiotto, Leon de Haas, Anne Herla, Gaëlle Jeanmart, Lou Marinoff, Mieke de Moor, Isabelle Pariente-Butterlin, Thomas Polednitschek, Livio Rossetti, Kristof Van Rossem.
Vrin, Paris, 2017, isbn: 978-2-7116-2764-6
The book includes, other than a new preface (p 15 f.), a "Postfacio" (translated by Nicola Galgano) where the author and Dr. Laura Candiotto (Univ. Venezia, Univ. Edinburgh) offer a sustained exchange about subsequent developments of the investigations included in this book. The "Postfacio" is available in the section "Talks".