I’m Laura Candiotto, a philosophy professor at the University of Pardubice, Czech Republic.
Originally from Italy, I moved to Scotland, France, and Germany over the last eight years to engage in various research projects on the philosophy of emotions at the criss-cross of social epistemology and ethics.
My research focuses on the epistemic role of emotions as embedded in dialogical interactions and communities of inquiry. I have worked on love, wonder, compassion, and shame, bridging my expertise in the Socratic method of inquiry and the enactive approach to participatory sense-making.
I am now contributing to the development of an enactive ethics grounded on affects as what reveals existential concerns and values, especially regarding environmental issues. See my new paper on this, co-authored with Martin Weichold, on the ethics of sense-making
As a fellow of ICA4, I’m also working on the ethics of AI, especially focusing on the affective interactions with AI agents in cultural robotics and responsible AI.
NEWS
Panelist at the “Opening up the space between us”
What is the role of compassion in moral betterment? In this paper I engage with Etty Hillesum’s diaries and letters and explore the transformative role of compassion. A strange state of mournful contentment, Passion 2023. https://passion-journal.org/article/view/13769
A new paper on the role of emotions in knowledge productions: Emotions in Knowledge Production. Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, “Critical Perspective on Science”, 2023
A new article on a specific kind of loneliness that can be experienced online: Extended loneliness: When hyperconnectivity makes us feel alone. Ethics and Information Technology 2022.
The “not possible without” principle as an alternative to the parity principle in the socially extended mind: What I cannot do without you. Towards a truly embedded and embodied account of the socially extended mind. Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences 2022
A special forum about my target article “Loving the Earth by loving a place” in Constructivist Foundations, 17(3), 2022. The forum includes ten peer commentaries and my answer to them titled “The space in-between”.
Collective inquiry as the epistemic culture that enables epistemic emotions: “Epistemic emotions and co-inquiry: a situated approach”, Topoi 2022.
A joint paper co-authored with Hanne De Jaegher on an enactive account to loving: “Love in-between”, The Journal of Ethics 2021
PODCAST AND VIDEOS
“Why Should I Listen More?”: This is the video of my talk at the Varela International Symposium (2023, Upaya Center): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bjEGrMzaDE&list=PLJW3uqC4w8Zl7bNomd11LAP7VQsLpeWVI&index=8
An interview on loving nature with Mike Livermore (2023): https://soundcloud.com/user-311970225/laura-candiotto-on-loving-nature
An interview on emotion and intelligence with Mike Livermore: Podcast EMOTION and INTELLIGENCE (2022)
A short video introducing some of my core research topics: My research in a Nutshell (2017)
Emotions First 