I am a philosopher of art, language and mind, currently a Ricercatore Tenure-Track (Assistant Professor) at the University of Cagliari. Before Cagliari, I was a Research Fellow at the University of Milan and, before that, a Juan de la Cierva and then a Beatriu de Pinós (Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions) Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Barcelona (working in the LOGOS Research Group in Analytic Philosophy). Before Barcelona, I was a Fulbright Research Scholar at Temple University, and before that an École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) Postdoc at the Jean Nicod Institute. I did my PhD at the University of York, after studying at Leeds and, before that, at Bari and Oxford. I have written about the empirically informed philosophy of affective states/processes, aesthetics, propaganda and linguistic justice and diversity in philosophy. Intellectual freedom and high accessibility for readers drive my choice of publication style and venues (I subscribe to DoRA). I also have a rich history of academic service and outreach, again in an effort to make philosophy more interdisciplinary, outward-facing and inclusive (which are in my mind all forms of accessibility). As a graduate student, I founded the Minorities and Philosophy UK network. Since 2020, I have been convening, and making publicly accessible, webinars exploring issues related to art, language, mind and to linguistic justice. In 2021, I launched the “Barcelona Principles for a Globally Inclusive Philosophy” manifesto, and then co-founded the Barcelona Principles institutional scheme. More recently, I was lead author of the Online Accessibility Pledge, co-created the philosophy post-publication peer-review site Freelosophy, founded the interdisciplinary Aesth-L mailing list and co-founded the multidisciplinary ARS+ research network.

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