Luca Bellini

Personal information

I am a PhD candidate at LMU Munich working with Monika Betzler (Munich) and Hong Yu Wong (Tübingen). Before joining the Chair of Ethics and Practical Philosophy, I graduated from the University of Milan while also holding a visiting position at LOGOS (Barcelona). Prior to that, I received my MSc in philosophy from the University of Edinburgh with a thesis on predictive processing and temporal phenomenology.

Broadly speaking, I work at the intersection between the philosophy of mind and action, but I am also interested in issues about philosophy and its method(s). My current research is primarily concerned with the problem of expressive action, that is, the problem of explaining why we do such bizarre things as kicking cars that refuse to start, kissing and talking to pictures, or wrecking damage to the belongings of someone who cheated on us. Contrary to the received view, I argue that these actions are much more like make-believe games than uncontroversial, garden-variety emotional expressions.

As a side on me, I am fairly into rock climbing and ski touring.