About Me
I am currently (2020-2022) a Leverhulme Postdoctoral Fellow at the Swiss Center for Affective Sciences, University of Geneva, with the Thumos Research Group.
Prior to this (2019-2020), I was a Postdoctoral Researcher with Bence Nanay's group at the Center for Philosophical Psychology, University of Antwerp.
Before this (2019), I completed my PhD in Philosophy at University College London.
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 European Research Council, 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 (2019-2020), I was a Postdoctoral Researcher with Bence Nanay's group at the Center for Philosophical Psychology, University of Antwerp.
Before this (2019), I completed my PhD in Philosophy at University College London.
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 European Research Council, 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
