About Me
I'm a final stage PhD candidate in Philosophy at University College London (UCL).
From September 2019 I will be a post-doctoral researcher at the Center for Philosophical Psychology at the University of Antwerp.
Following this, I will take up a Leverhulme Trust post-doctoral fellowship at the Swiss Center for Affective Sciences, Geneva.
I work primarily on the philosophy of emotion, at the intersections of moral psychology, feminist philosophy and philosophy of mind.
I also have research interests in ethics and epistemology.
My work is often empirically informed in two distinct senses: I strive to take social reality seriously,
and I engage with experimental work in the brain and behavioral sciences.
I have held visiting fellowships at Yale University (spring 2017) and the Centre de Recherche en Éthique
(summer 2018). I've also held a Research Associate position at the Institute of Philosophy, where I serve on
the Advisory Council as student representative.
My research has been funded by the AHRC London Arts and Humanities Research Partnership.
I was also awarded a UCL Cross-disciplinary Scholarship for further training in the Brain and Behavioral sciences.
Prior to my doctoral studies I completed an MPhilStud in Philosophy at UCL, an MA in Philosophy at King's College,
London and a BSc in Neuroscience at UCL.
Contact: laura.silva.13 (at) ucl.ac.uk
From September 2019 I will be a post-doctoral researcher at the Center for Philosophical Psychology at the University of Antwerp.
Following this, I will take up a Leverhulme Trust post-doctoral fellowship at the Swiss Center for Affective Sciences, Geneva.
I work primarily on the philosophy of emotion, at the intersections of moral psychology, feminist philosophy and philosophy of mind.
I also have research interests in ethics and epistemology.
My work is often empirically informed in two distinct senses: I strive to take social reality seriously,
and I engage with experimental work in the brain and behavioral sciences.
I have held visiting fellowships at Yale University (spring 2017) and the Centre de Recherche en Éthique
(summer 2018). I've also held a Research Associate position at the Institute of Philosophy, where I serve on
the Advisory Council as student representative.
My research has been funded by the AHRC London Arts and Humanities Research Partnership.
I was also awarded a UCL Cross-disciplinary Scholarship for further training in the Brain and Behavioral sciences.
Prior to my doctoral studies I completed an MPhilStud in Philosophy at UCL, an MA in Philosophy at King's College,
London and a BSc in Neuroscience at UCL.
Contact: laura.silva.13 (at) ucl.ac.uk
