Margherita Arcangeli
I am maîtresse de conférences (associate professor) at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (Institut Jean Nicod, Paris), chair “Theories and practices of imagination. Philosophy and social sciences”.
I am member of the interdisciplinary project SublimAE (“The Sublime and Aesthetic Experiences”), and of the research teams “Perception, Memory, Representations” and "Fiction" at the Jean Nicod Institute.
I have been a post-doctoral researcher in SublimAE (2019/2020). I was an Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow at the Department of Philosophy at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and associated member of the “What if?” research group (2016/2018). During the academic year 2015-2016 I was a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Geneva (Department of Philosophy and Swiss Center for Affective Sciences) with a Swiss Government Excellence Scholarships for Foreign Scholars. Previously I was post-doctoral researcher at the Jean Nicod Institute, where I also had been a member of the research team “Consciousness and the self” and held a Research Fellowship (2012-2013) in the FICTION (“Fiction in emotion”) project, an interdisciplinary project at the interface between philosophy and neuropsychology.
Graduated in Philosophy at the Università di Roma Tre (B.Sc. 2006, Master 2008) under the supervision of Mauro Dorato and Massimo Marraffa, at the Institut Jean-Nicod and the Université Pierre and Marie Curie (UPMC) I qualified as Doctor (2011) under the supervision of Jérôme Dokic.
My areas of research are philosophy of mind, aesthetics, philosophy of science, epistemology, and philosophy of language.
One of the more specific topic-areas of my investigation is imagination. I have been concerned with many issues: the relationship between imagination and supposition, the debate between simulationists and single-code theorists, the paradox of imaginative resistance, the propositionality/conceptuality of mental content and its truth-evaluability, the distinction between belief and acceptance and the debate on dual-process theories.
I worked on the relationship between imagination and memory, more precisely on their perspectival nature and on our capacity to mentally travel in the past and in the future.
I have recently started working on aesthetic experiences and, in particular, on the experience of the sublime.
I am also interested, on the one hand, in the debate on thought experiments and, on the other hand, in the history and philosophy of Physics. In my MA dissertation, “On the nature and function of thought experiments”, I tried to give a generalised account of thought experimentation both in philosophy and in science (Physics and Biology). In my B.Sc. dissertation I examined Ernst Cassirer’s work on Relativity and Quantum Mechanics.
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I am member of the interdisciplinary project SublimAE (“The Sublime and Aesthetic Experiences”), and of the research teams “Perception, Memory, Representations” and "Fiction" at the Jean Nicod Institute.
I have been a post-doctoral researcher in SublimAE (2019/2020). I was an Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow at the Department of Philosophy at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and associated member of the “What if?” research group (2016/2018). During the academic year 2015-2016 I was a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Geneva (Department of Philosophy and Swiss Center for Affective Sciences) with a Swiss Government Excellence Scholarships for Foreign Scholars. Previously I was post-doctoral researcher at the Jean Nicod Institute, where I also had been a member of the research team “Consciousness and the self” and held a Research Fellowship (2012-2013) in the FICTION (“Fiction in emotion”) project, an interdisciplinary project at the interface between philosophy and neuropsychology.
Graduated in Philosophy at the Università di Roma Tre (B.Sc. 2006, Master 2008) under the supervision of Mauro Dorato and Massimo Marraffa, at the Institut Jean-Nicod and the Université Pierre and Marie Curie (UPMC) I qualified as Doctor (2011) under the supervision of Jérôme Dokic.
My areas of research are philosophy of mind, aesthetics, philosophy of science, epistemology, and philosophy of language.
One of the more specific topic-areas of my investigation is imagination. I have been concerned with many issues: the relationship between imagination and supposition, the debate between simulationists and single-code theorists, the paradox of imaginative resistance, the propositionality/conceptuality of mental content and its truth-evaluability, the distinction between belief and acceptance and the debate on dual-process theories.
I worked on the relationship between imagination and memory, more precisely on their perspectival nature and on our capacity to mentally travel in the past and in the future.
I have recently started working on aesthetic experiences and, in particular, on the experience of the sublime.
I am also interested, on the one hand, in the debate on thought experiments and, on the other hand, in the history and philosophy of Physics. In my MA dissertation, “On the nature and function of thought experiments”, I tried to give a generalised account of thought experimentation both in philosophy and in science (Physics and Biology). In my B.Sc. dissertation I examined Ernst Cassirer’s work on Relativity and Quantum Mechanics.
See my website https://sites.google.com/view/margheritarcangeli/home
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Margherita Arcangeli is a philosopher whose research centres on aesthetics, epistemology, philosophy of emotions, philosophy of language, philosophy of mind, and philosophy of science. She is also a contributor to the Open Mind Project. Here she broods on what the imagination is, on the simulationist approach, on the connection between imagination and supposition, on whether the imagination is always perspectival, on thought experiments, on imagination and the acquisition of new knowledge, on imagination’s relation to the self, on imagining from the inside, on the relationship between the humanities and science, on gender bias at the academy and on whether interdisciplinary work enhances or waters down. A new mind on the block. Create some space and time – read on…
Books by Margherita Arcangeli
These are the main questions Margherita Arcangeli explores in this book. She examines the characteristic features of supposition, along the dimensions of phenomenology and emotionality, among others, in a journey through the imaginative realm. An informed answer to the question “What is supposition?” must involve an analysis of imagination, since supposition is so often defined in opposition to the latter. She assesses rival explanations of supposition putting forward a novel view, according to which the proper way of seeing supposition is as a primitive type of imaginative state.
Papers by Margherita Arcangeli
Margherita Arcangeli is a philosopher whose research centres on aesthetics, epistemology, philosophy of emotions, philosophy of language, philosophy of mind, and philosophy of science. She is also a contributor to the Open Mind Project. Here she broods on what the imagination is, on the simulationist approach, on the connection between imagination and supposition, on whether the imagination is always perspectival, on thought experiments, on imagination and the acquisition of new knowledge, on imagination’s relation to the self, on imagining from the inside, on the relationship between the humanities and science, on gender bias at the academy and on whether interdisciplinary work enhances or waters down. A new mind on the block. Create some space and time – read on…
These are the main questions Margherita Arcangeli explores in this book. She examines the characteristic features of supposition, along the dimensions of phenomenology and emotionality, among others, in a journey through the imaginative realm. An informed answer to the question “What is supposition?” must involve an analysis of imagination, since supposition is so often defined in opposition to the latter. She assesses rival explanations of supposition putting forward a novel view, according to which the proper way of seeing supposition is as a primitive type of imaginative state.
(Sect. 21.1). Second, I give some historical back ground (Sect. 21.2). Then, I focus on three of the main questions asked in the literature, namely: What is a thought experiment? (Sect. 21.3), What is the function of thought experiments? (Sect. 21.4), How do thought experiments achieve their function? (Sect. 21.5). These issues will lead to tackle other important points, such as the relationship between real and thought experimentation, the differences between philosophical and scientific thought experimentation, the role played by intuitions and imagination in thought experimentation.