Luca Barlassina
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Completed PhD students 
  • Miklos Kurthy (primary supervisor). Thesis topic: "Ought implies can" as a principle of the Moral Faculty
  • Andreas Bunge (secondary supervisor). Thesis topic: Moral responsibility and implicit cognition
  • Alex Duval (secondary supervisor). Thesis topic: The cognitive mechanisms underlying spatial navigation
  • Damiano La Manna (secondary supervisor). Thesis topic: The function of phenomenal consciousness

Current PhD students
  • Andrea Blomkvist (primary supervisor). Thesis topic: The cognitive architecture of imagination and memory
  • Richard Hassall (primary supervisor). Thesis topic: Psychiatric diagnosis and epistemic injustice 
  • Viktoriia Kononova (primary supervisor). Thesis topic: The cognitive mechanisms underlying hedonic bodily feelings (and their disorders)
  • James Turner (primary supervisor). Thesis topic: Depression: A representational-computational account
  • Marcantonio Gagliardi (secondary supervisor). Thesis topic: Attachment, modularity, and motivation​

If you are interested to study with me for a PhD, feel free to get in touch! I am interested in the philosophy of psychology across the board, with a special focus on: affective states (pain, pleasure, emotions, etc.), interoception, imagination and mental simulation, Theory of Mind, mental disorders, and moral judgment. 
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MA students
I direct the Philosophy MA and the Cognitive Studies MA at the University of Sheffield. Every Autumn Semester, I teach the Cognitive Studies Research Seminar. 

Undergraduate students
In the academic year 2020-21, I will teach Philosophy of Science (2nd year-Autumn Semester) and 
Pain, Pleasure, and Emotions  (3rd year-Spring Semester). At Sheffield, I also taught Philosophy of Mind (2nd year) and directed individual projects on self-knowledge, experimental philosophy, delusions, and the metaphysics of science. 

Completed Postdocs 
Michael Messerli (University of Bern, Switzerland). Research topic: Hard cases of comparison. 



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