Laura Gagliardi

Discipline(s)

Sciences cognitives

Research topics

Philosophy

Activities / CV

MY THESIS
The cognitive factors and philosophical implications of moral disgust in the food domain
Summary of the thesis

ATTACHMENTS
University of Milan, Department of Philosophy, Institut Lyfe Research Center, Culinary Mind 

MY EXPERIENCE

• 2022 - 2025 : PhD student at University of Milan and Institut Lyfe Research Center in The Human Mind and its Explanations under the supervision of Andrea Borghini (University of Milan, Department of Philosophy) and Jérémie Lafraire ( Institut Lyfe) 
• 2015  -2016 : Master Degree Global Politics -The London School of Economics 
• 2012 - 2015 : Bachelor's degree Arts and Sciences : Sciences and Engineering - University College of London

Additional information

MY ACTIVITIES
Main objective: to investigate the nature and the direction of the relationship between core and moral disgust and its situation within the philosophical literature. 

Specific objectives of the project:

• To investigate how core and moral disgust are related in creating moral judgments in the food domain.
• To complete a literature review of the overlapping theories on moral judgment from evolutionary psychology and moral philosophy. 
• To conduct online experiments to evaluate the effect of disgust on moral judgements in food domain 
• To conduct a conceptual analysis of moral disgust in the phylosophical domain