Laura Silva

My article 'Emotions and their Reasons' is out in Inquiry!🤘 Losses are reason for sadness and injustices are reason for anger.. ..but what do we mean when we say there are reasons for emotions? Are there distinctively affective reasons? I think so. tinyurl.com/hz5eszhh

😊 Já podem comprar com desconto de pre-venda o meu livro infantil!! ✨Aliando filosofia e neurociência, O Labirinto dos Sentidos acompanha Alma numa aventura pela mente humana!✨ @CGF_UK @penguinrandom #neurociencia #filosofiaparacrianças tinyurl.com/43bzeea5

Happy to have been interviewed for this article! Along with other philosophers I admire - @myishacherry and @mkrishnamurthyX 🙏💪 Embrace the Outrage, Canadians🔥 theglobeandmail.com/life/article-r…

academics with literal PhDs whenever they have to fill in a relatively short form

Triggered.

🚨After three intense days reviewing 229 applications to the lab, only 20 candidates will be contacted for the next steps. This inspired me to create a short guide to help students succeed in applying to grad school. I've also prepared a podcast episode on this topic : 📕Document: zenodo.org/records/145680… 🎙️Podcast: open.spotify.com/episode/5uGL6N…

Two positions at @universitelaval in philosophy! Applied ethics and 19th century German! Plz share widely! rh.ulaval.ca/emploi/HCM/943… rh.ulaval.ca/emploi/HCM/943…

Position for political philosophers and theorists at @UQAM in Montreal ! Please share widely 🙏

Go for a walk

Our paper was just published in Sports Psychiatry. 🧵1/13

Hey friends, find me where the sky is blue so I can follow you back @proflaurasilva.bsky.social 🙏

Just arrived. Two of the books that started a long journey engaging education as central to politics.

Pregnancy rewires the paternal brain. 🧵1/12

Thrilled that my paper "Non-ideal Theory as Ideology" has been accepted at Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy! Link to preprint: philpapers.org/archive/WALNTA…

Excited to see my work featured in @bigthink! 🧠✨ Delve into whether your moral choices are guided by reason or emotion: bigthink.com/thinking/are-y…

Last week at ULaval

This asshole's election is terrible for climate action given the little time we have to act decisively. But we live in a world of Polycentric climate governance and other agents have a duty to pick up the slack. And that includes with Canada. Do not vote Conservative. Please.

If you haven't done it already, listen to the Political Philosophy Podcast's episode on political liberalism and right-wing populism with Gabriele Badano and Alasia Nuti! politicalphilosophypodcast.com/ratpr

🚨 Awesome postdoc opportunity in Geneva!🚨 Plz share🙏 24-month full-time postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Geneva on Affect, Benevolence and Philanthropy. 👇 unige.ch/lettres/philo/…

New article published in Erkenntnis 😃 As the title says, I argue that emotions represent properties unconsciously. I also discuss which theories are in contradiction with this claim, its links to conscious representation and to unconscious emotions. link.springer.com/article/10.100…

✅ À LIRE : Dans un article paru récemment, @ProfLauraSilva met en lumière l'apport de la #philosophie, notamment #féministe, à la recherche en #psychologie. fss.ulaval.ca/actualites/lau…