Fiora Salis
Lecturer
Profile
Biography
Before joining the Department I was Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow at the London School of Economics (2015-2017) and Postdoctoral Fellow at the Centre for Philosophy at the University of Lisbon (2012-2015). I obtained a PhD in Philosophy from the University of Barcelona (2011), an MA in Cognitive Science from the same University (2007) and an MA in Philosophy and History of Ideas (2006) from the University of Turin.
Departmental roles
- Member of Department Management Team
- Careers and industrial placement coordinator
- Visiting student and exchanges coordinator
Research
Overview
I am a philosopher with a background in cognitive science. I work primarily on issues related to the nature and varieties of imagination, and on its distinct uses in artistic fictions, scientific models, and thought experiments. I also work on fiction and the semantics and pragmatics of fictional discourse, fictional names, episodic memory and mental imagery, and the notion of creativity in relation to contemporary developments in AI. Currently, I am writing a book on Scientific Imagination as a Social Practice. The aim of the book is to put forward a pragmatic account of the epistemic role of imagination in science that is coherent with the thesis of the objectivity and public character of scientific knowledge.