About Me
I am currently a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Swiss Center for Affective Sciences, University of Geneva, with the Thumos Research Group.
Prior to this I was a Postdoctoral Researcher with Bence Nanay's group at the Center for Philosophical Psychology, University of Antwerp.
I work primarily on the philosophy of emotion, at the intersections of philosophy of mind, moral psychology and feminist philosophy.
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.
My research has been funded by the Leverhulme Trust, the AHRC London Arts and Humanities Research Partnership
and UCL's Cross-disciplinary Scholarship for further training in the Brain and Behavioral sciences.
Contact: laura.silva.13 (at) ucl.ac.uk
Prior to this I was a Postdoctoral Researcher with Bence Nanay's group at the Center for Philosophical Psychology, University of Antwerp.
I work primarily on the philosophy of emotion, at the intersections of philosophy of mind, moral psychology and feminist philosophy.
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.
My research has been funded by the Leverhulme Trust, the AHRC London Arts and Humanities Research Partnership
and UCL's Cross-disciplinary Scholarship for further training in the Brain and Behavioral sciences.
Contact: laura.silva.13 (at) ucl.ac.uk
