Sofia Livi is a PhD student in Philosophy of Mind at Scuola Normale Superiore. She has held visiting positions at York (University of York), Rome (Sapienza University of Rome), and Pavia (IUSS).
Her primary research areas include the philosophy of perception, with a specific focus on the affective dimensions of perceptual experience. Her dissertation is about smell and the sense of the self. She is also interested in the topics of interoception and embodied experience more generally.
Her research methods are rooted in analytic philosophy and are open to interdisciplinary contaminations.