About Me
I am Assistant Professor at the Department of Political Science, Université Laval, Canada. I am a philosopher working primarily at the intersections of moral psychology and feminist philosophy, on the nature and value of emotion for our moral and political lives. I also have research interests in philosophy of mind, epistemology and philosophy of psychology.
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 completed my PhD in Philosophy in 2019, on 'The Rationality of Anger', at University College London. To learn more about my research, teaching, wider-audience writing and outreach efforts use the tabs above.
Before taking up my position at Université Laval I was:
- Banting Postdoctoral Researcher at the Centre de Recherche en Éthique, associated with the University of Montreal and McGill University.
- Leverhulme Postdoctoral Fellow at the Swiss Center for Affective Sciences, University of Geneva, with the Thumos Research Group.
- ERC Postdoctoral Fellow with Bence Nanay's group at the Center for Philosophical Psychology, University of Antwerp.
My research has been funded by the Canadian Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, the Leverhulme Trust, the European Research Council, the AHRC London Arts and Humanities Research Partnership, UCL's Cross-disciplinary Scholarship for further training in the Brain and Behavioral sciences and Yale University.
Contact: laura.silva.13 (at) ucl.ac.uk
I am Assistant Professor at the Department of Political Science, Université Laval, Canada. I am a philosopher working primarily at the intersections of moral psychology and feminist philosophy, on the nature and value of emotion for our moral and political lives. I also have research interests in philosophy of mind, epistemology and philosophy of psychology.
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 completed my PhD in Philosophy in 2019, on 'The Rationality of Anger', at University College London. To learn more about my research, teaching, wider-audience writing and outreach efforts use the tabs above.
Before taking up my position at Université Laval I was:
- Banting Postdoctoral Researcher at the Centre de Recherche en Éthique, associated with the University of Montreal and McGill University.
- Leverhulme Postdoctoral Fellow at the Swiss Center for Affective Sciences, University of Geneva, with the Thumos Research Group.
- ERC Postdoctoral Fellow with Bence Nanay's group at the Center for Philosophical Psychology, University of Antwerp.
My research has been funded by the Canadian Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, the Leverhulme Trust, the European Research Council, the AHRC London Arts and Humanities Research Partnership, UCL's Cross-disciplinary Scholarship for further training in the Brain and Behavioral sciences and Yale University.
Contact: laura.silva.13 (at) ucl.ac.uk
