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Laura Silva

@ProfLauraSilva

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Feelosopher | Assistant Prof. @pol_ulaval | Philosophy of emotion; Feminist philosophy; Moral psych | PhD @UCLPhilosophy | BSc Neuroscience @uclnpp |EN/PT/FR|

Quebec, CA / Lisboa, PT
Joined November 2011
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@ProfLauraSilva
Laura Silva
3 years
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. https://t.co/II279maJXE
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@ProfLauraSilva
Laura Silva
6 months
😊 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 https://t.co/bD6P5GqfkJ
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penguinlivros.pt
Obra de estreia de autora nacional, que alia ficção, filosofia e neurociência.
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@ProfLauraSilva
Laura Silva
7 months
Happy to have been interviewed for this article! Along with other philosophers I admire - @myishacherry and @mkrishnamurthyX 🙏💪 Embrace the Outrage, Canadians🔥 https://t.co/n3DVCLiSR5
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theglobeandmail.com
National rage might be just the emotion we need right now, but, as history tells us, there’s an art to anger
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@daisyldixon
Daisy Dixon
9 months
academics with literal PhDs whenever they have to fill in a relatively short form
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@ProfLauraSilva
Laura Silva
10 months
Triggered.
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@Edel_PLopez
Edel Pérez-López
10 months
🚨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 :
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@ProfLauraSilva
Laura Silva
10 months
Two positions at @universitelaval in philosophy! Applied ethics and 19th century German! Plz share widely! https://t.co/HHgi89B7O1 https://t.co/Tbt0EEA8ma
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@ProfLauraSilva
Laura Silva
10 months
Position for political philosophers and theorists at @UQAM in Montreal ! Please share widely 🙏
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@DylanoA4
Dylan O'Sullivan
11 months
Go for a walk
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@NTFabiano
Nicholas Fabiano, MD
11 months
Our paper was just published in Sports Psychiatry. 🧵1/13
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@ProfLauraSilva
Laura Silva
11 months
Hey friends, find me where the sky is blue so I can follow you back @proflaurasilva.bsky.social 🙏
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@HenryGiroux
Henry A. Giroux
11 months
Just arrived. Two of the books that started a long journey engaging education as central to politics.
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@NTFabiano
Nicholas Fabiano, MD
11 months
Pregnancy rewires the paternal brain. 🧵1/12
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@jdtw123
Jordan Walters
11 months
Thrilled that my paper "Non-ideal Theory as Ideology" has been accepted at Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy! Link to preprint: https://t.co/jgmB1W2Bbb
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@rodrigodiazxphi
Rodrigo Díaz
11 months
Excited to see my work featured in @bigthink! 🧠✨ Delve into whether your moral choices are guided by reason or emotion:
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bigthink.com
In the 18th century, David Hume argued that we are only motivated to do something if our passions direct us to do so. Was he right?
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@ProfLauraSilva
Laura Silva
11 months
Last week at ULaval
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@ProfGajevic
Alexandre Gajevic Sayegh
1 year
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.
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@YCPolTheory
York Centre for Social Justice and Democracy
1 year
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! https://t.co/uxwoT1fWhL
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politicalphilosophypodcast.com
Gabriele Badano & Alasia Nuti on Rawls, religion, the reasonable & unreasonable, and what are our obligations when liberal democracy is under threat? Do we have a duty to try and persuade people out...
@PolPhilPod
Political Philosophy Podcast
1 year
Past 2 months recap: Rawlsianism/ Badano & Nuti Liberal socialism (2 episodes)/ @MattPolProf Liberalism & fashion (2)/ @dieworkwear Unions with @stevenmklein 2 solo election episodes Anti-Trump republicans/ Monroe https://t.co/quwKA0VL1T
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@mjaz_jazlab
Mehrdad Jazayeri
1 year
Dear friends, my MIT colleague, Fan Wang, and I, are starting a new collaborative project on the brain's internal models of the body. We are building a team to tackle this research. Please distribute and RT the job ad below.
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Shared with Dropbox
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@ProfLauraSilva
Laura Silva
1 year
🚨 Awesome postdoc opportunity in Geneva!🚨 Plz share🙏 24-month full-time postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Geneva on Affect, Benevolence and Philanthropy. 👇 https://t.co/SffEtsYeHM
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@constant_bonard
Constant Bonard
1 year
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.
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link.springer.com
Erkenntnis - Drawing on affective sciences, I argue that normally elicited emotions involve a component—the appraisal process—that represents evaluative properties unconsciously. More...
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