Dr Giovanna Colombetti
BA (Florence), MSc (Birmingham), DPhil (Sussex)
Extension: 3287
Telephone: 01392 723287
Senior Lecturer
I am a philosopher of cognitive science, or better of affective science. Since my PhD I have been interested in the so-called "embodied" approach to mind and cognition, and in its implications for our understanding of emotion and other affective phenomena. In my work I draw on both analytic and continental philosophical traditions, as well as theoretical and experimental work in psychology and neuroscience.
From January 2010 I have been working on an ERC-funded project titled "Emoting the Embodied Mind", for which I am the Principal Investigator. The project will last 5 years, and will focus in particular on (1) the place of bodily awareness in emotion experience, (2) the relationship between natural purposes and emotions, (3) the extended nature of emotions, and (4) how to reconceptualize rationality and control from an embodied-emotional mind perspective. Part of the project will involve collaborating with Kim Wright in the Mood Disorders Centre.
