Hi! I am Laura Candiotto, a philosopher of emotions working at the intersection of Ethics and Social Epistemology.
I am now contributing to the development of an enactive ethics grounded on affects as what reveal existential concerns and values, especially regarding environmental issues. I extensively worked on environmental love and grief and I am now focusing on hope. I am also interested in the ethics of knowing and the role of dialogue and solidarity in epistemic communities.
I am currently leading two research projects, one on situated affectivity and vicious epistemic cultures and the other on epistemic violence in AIs. I am also the team leader of a project on the ethics of care titled “Loving is caring”.
NEWS
Now that the conference season is starting, I am happy to share some of the events where I am going to give a talk:
Self(less) Care: Ancient and Contemporary Care Ethics from a Labour Perspective
University of Pardubice
Power and Care: Enactive Approaches and Critical Social Philosophy
Pompeu Fabra University of Barcelona, Mind & Life Europe
Power and Care: Enactive Approaches and Critical Social Philosophy – Mind and Life Europe
Affective Atmospheres and Interpersonal Encounters
University of Southern Denmark, OdenseHome | Hoopla Party Planning
EPSSE 2026: European Philosophical Society for the Study of Emotions, Annual Meeting
University of Eichstatt
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Philosophy in the Wild
I am taking part in “Philosophy in the Wild: Finding Hope in Mixed Communities”. For the activities organised in Prague and Pardubice:
Prague & Pardubice, Czech Republic – Notes from a Biscuit Tin
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Panelist at the 2026 Mind & Life Europe inaugural panel “Empowering through Caring”
LOVE IS IN THE AIR
In this ten minutes video I introduce some key elements of an ethics of eros. Crucial to this is the desire to actively take part in the life of the beloved and their ongoing processes of becoming from within an ensemble. This means that if we really want to love them well, we need to cultivate our eros and the places in which it unfolds.
The Philosophy of Environmental Emotions Grief, Hope, and Beyond
Edited By Ondřej Beran, Laura Candiotto, Niklas Forsberg, Antony Fredriksson, David Rozen Copyright 2025
Reality does not exist.
This documentary by Alexander Oey explores how we experience reality through the Buddhist philosophy of Nagarjuna, modern scientific insights, and relational ethics. Saying that reality does not exist means that everything only exists in relation to each other. And this has an extraordinary liberatory effect. With contributions from Carlo Rovelli, Jay Garfield, and Laura Candiotto.
If you are curious about my new GACR research project on the Ethics of Knowing (“Vicious epistemic cultures”), watch my presentation at the University of Usti
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGq1BDCaGyY Invariato:
A conversation with Luc Steel on Enaction, Sentience, AI at the 2023 Mind and Life Europe ESRI
Panelist at the “Opening up the space between us”
https://youtu.be/kIGZGrH6rlA Invariato:
Emotions First 