Project
Dimensions of Embodiment: an intercultural and interdisciplinary approach
The project examines historical accounts of embodiment from European and Chinese philosophical traditions (Spinoza and Zhang Zai), and combines them with contemporary theories on enactivism in cognitive science. By doing so, it aims at accounting for an intercultural theory of embodiment that can elucidate the role of the latter in the elaboration of ethical principles.
Bio
Alice has a PhD in comparative philosophy from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (2023). She previously earned a Research Master in Asian Studies and a Master in philosophy from Leiden University, the Netherlands (2019), and a BA in Chinese studies from Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy (2014). She has been visiting researcher at CRISI (Interdisciplinary research center for the history of ideas) in Milan, at the philosophy department of the University of Groningen (the Netherlands), and the philosophy department of Renmin University (China). In her PhD, she has elaborated a cross-cultural account of rationality drawing on early modern European Philosophy and Chinese Neo-Confucianism, while also developing a methodological framework for intercultural philosophical analysis. She is interested in the relation between identity and difference as applied to embodiment theories, complexity, and interculturality. Alice is now a visiting researcher at Centre Gilles Gaston Granger at Aix-Marseille University.
