Joshua Shepherd
Principal InvestigatorAssistant Professor, Carleton University
Research Professor, University of Barcelona
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Joshua Shepherd does work in the philosophy of mind and action, and in practical ethics. After receiving his PhD from Florida State, he went to the University of Oxford, where he worked as a research fellow with the Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics. He is currently an Assistant Professor at Carleton University and a Research Professor at the University of Barcelona, where he directs the project ‘Rethinking Conscious Agency,’ which is funded by the European Research Council.
Adrian John Tetteh Alsmith
Postdoctoral researcherUniversity of Barcelona
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My work in the project will concern the interplay between cognitive, sensory and motor processes in the experience of bodily action. More generally, the focus of my work is on how the body structures our experience of the world and ourselves.
I am also working on a book for Routledge, titled Bodily Self-Consciousness, and editing The Routledge Handbook of Bodily Awareness, with my collaborator Matt Longo.
My most recent article (forthcoming in Synthese) argues that the integrated structure of bodily experience and bodily action do not require representation of the body as an integrated whole.
You can find my CV here and some things I have written here.
Chiara Brozzo
Postdoctoral ResearcherUniversity of Barcelona
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Chiara comes to Barcelona from the University of Durham, where she was a teaching fellow. Her research concerns issues in the philosophy of mind and action, philosophy of psychology and neuroscience, and aesthetics. She also has research interests in the philosophy of happiness, mainly on the impact of habit on what we like and value.
Wayne Christensen
Postdoctoral ResearcherUniversity of Barcelona
Carlota Serrahima
Postdoctoral ResearcherUniversity of Barcelona
I got my PhD from the Universitat de Barcelona in 2019. Before joining ReConAg, I held postdoctoral positions at the Institut Jean Nicod in Paris and the Center for Philosophical Psychology in Antwerp.
My main philosophical interests lie in bodily awareness and self-awareness, and in the ways in which they interact with phenomenal consciousness in general. The guiding principle of my research is that bodily experiences are genuinely first-personal states, both because of the peculiarities of bodily representations in them, and because of how subjectivity is involved in all forms of phenomenal consciousness in normal conditions. Besides, I am currently very interested in exploring the affectivity of dysmenorrhea as a debilitating condition. I will contribute to the project by thinking of how the peculiarities of our bodily experiences inform our experience of agency.