About Me
I am currently a Banting Postdoctoral Researcher at the Centre de Recherche en Éthique, associated with the University of Montreal and McGill University.
Prior to this I have held postdoctoral positions at the Swiss Center for Affective Sciences, University of Geneva, with the Thumos Research Group, and 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 at the intersections of moral psychology, social and political philosophy and feminist philosophy, on the nature and value of emotion for our moral and political lives.
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, Montreal
(summer 2018). I've also held a Research Associate position at the Institute of Philosophy, London.
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 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 have held postdoctoral positions at the Swiss Center for Affective Sciences, University of Geneva, with the Thumos Research Group, and 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 at the intersections of moral psychology, social and political philosophy and feminist philosophy, on the nature and value of emotion for our moral and political lives.
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, Montreal
(summer 2018). I've also held a Research Associate position at the Institute of Philosophy, London.
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 and UCL's Cross-disciplinary Scholarship for further training in the Brain and Behavioral sciences.
Contact: laura.silva.13 (at) ucl.ac.uk
