Laura Candiotto, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at the University of Pardubice, Czech Republic. She conducts her research activities at the Center for Ethics where she directs a project on the role of emotions in epistemic responsibility and contributes to projects on affective experiences related to climate and technological transformations in collaboration with various international research institutes. Over the years, she has mainly contributed to the development of a 4E perspective (embodied, situated, extended, and enactive) on affective, dialogical, and group knowledge. She has developed a theoretical perspective on the centrality of relationship and highlighted the centrality of love, wonder, and compassion as forces and qualities embodied in the constitution of worlds in an enactivist ethics. As a member of Mind and Life Europe (MLE), she coordinated the Summer Research Institute at ILTK in Pomaia in 2022 and 2023. She is currently organizing a conference on embodied cognition and intersubjectivity in contemplative practices as a representative of Humanities for MLE in the International Society for Contemplative Research (ISCR) at the University of Padova.
She has written 4 monographs, published over 100 articles in various languages (Italian, English, French, Spanish, Portuguese), and edited special issues of academic journals and collective volumes. Among her publications in Italian, we remember "Il dialogo che trasforma" (2022), "Filosofia delle relazioni" (2019, with G. Pezzano), and "Le vie della confutazione" (2012). In English: "The Value of Emotions for Knowledge" (2019), "Eros In-Between and All-Around" (Human Studies 2024); "Ethics of Sense-Making" (Frontiers in Psychology 2023, with M. Weichold); "Extended Loneliness. When Hyperconnectivity makes us feel alone" (Ethics and Information Technology 2022); "What I cannot do without you. Towards a truly embedded and embodied account of the socially extended mind" (Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences 2022); "Loving the Earth by loving a place" (Constructivist Foundations 2022); "Epistemic Emotions and Co-Inquiry: A Situated Approach" (Topoi 2022); "Love in-between" (The Journal of Ethics 2021, with Hanne De Jaegher). Numerous publications are available for free at: upce.academia.edu/LauraCandiotto. For further information: emotionsfirst.org
