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