About
I am currently a postdoc at the Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich, working with Monika Betzler. My project is on empathy broadly construed, both from a philosophy of mind and an ethics perspective. Previously, I was a postdoc at University of Geneva, as part of the Thumos group, working on our emotions towards fictional characters and events under the mentorship of Julien Deonna and Fabrice Teroni. More broadly, I am interested in philosophy of mind (especially emotions and imagination), philosophy of art and ethics, and in particular in questions at the intersection of all these fields.
Originally from Bucharest, I have read maths and philosophy at Trinity College, Cambridge and decided to pursue philosophy further in London (KCL and Birkbeck). I did my PhD at Leeds under the supervision of Matthew Kieran, Víctor Durà-Vilà and Helen Steward, with an academic visit in Geneva. In my PhD thesis, I tried to provide a broadly humanistic defence of the importance of literature, arguing that we can learn something from the novels we read, even if not something explicit.
I am currently a postdoc at the Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich, working with Monika Betzler. My project is on empathy broadly construed, both from a philosophy of mind and an ethics perspective. Previously, I was a postdoc at University of Geneva, as part of the Thumos group, working on our emotions towards fictional characters and events under the mentorship of Julien Deonna and Fabrice Teroni. More broadly, I am interested in philosophy of mind (especially emotions and imagination), philosophy of art and ethics, and in particular in questions at the intersection of all these fields.
Originally from Bucharest, I have read maths and philosophy at Trinity College, Cambridge and decided to pursue philosophy further in London (KCL and Birkbeck). I did my PhD at Leeds under the supervision of Matthew Kieran, Víctor Durà-Vilà and Helen Steward, with an academic visit in Geneva. In my PhD thesis, I tried to provide a broadly humanistic defence of the importance of literature, arguing that we can learn something from the novels we read, even if not something explicit.