Academic appointments

Since August 2024: Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Philosophy "Piero Martinetti" of the University of Milan.

April – June 2024: Visiting Fellow Researcher at the Department of Philosophy and Center for Mind and Cognition of the Ruhr-University Bochum.

October 2019 – September 2023: University Assistant (Doctoral Fellow) at the Department of Philosophy (GW) of the University of Salzburg.

Education

October 2019 – July 2024: Ph.D. in Philosophy at the Department of Philosophy (GW) of the University of Salzburg. Awarded with the highest grade ("Sehr gut").
Dissertation: Mental Imagery in Action
Supervisor: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Christopher Gauker
Second supervisor: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Johannes L. Brandl
External reviewer: Prof. Elisabeth Pacherie, Directrice de Recherche, CNRS

2017–2019: Master's degree in Philosophy
Department of Philosophy (GW) at the University of Salzburg
Thesis: Mental imagery in simple decision-making
Advisor: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Christopher Gauker

2016–2017: Exchange programme, Higher School of Economics of Moscow (HSE),
Moscow, Russia
Courses: Intellectual History, Philosophy of Science, Sociology

2014–2017: Bachelor's degree in Politics, Philosophy, and Economics (PPE), LUISS
Guido Carli University of Rome
Thesis: Why bioethics needs a concept of vulnerability
Advisor: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Daniele Santoro

Talks

Non-conceptual epistemic progress (invited contribution).
Conceptual Negotiation for a Better Future. An Ethical and Conceptual Investigation,
Final Conference, University of Padua, Padua, Italy, May 2025.

The epistemic role of non-linguistic inquisitiveness (peer-reviewed). Cognitive Tools in Action, University of Messina, Messina, Italy, May 2025.

Imaginative resistance. Internal seminar at Department of Philosophy Piero Martinetti
of the University of Milan, Milan, Italy, November 2024.

Unprecedented knowing-how. Internal workshop at the Department of Philosophy and Center for Mind and Cognition of the Ruhr-University Bochum, Bochum, Germany, June 2024.

Transformative Imagination: Imaginative Constraints as a Solution to the Challenge posed by Transformative Experience (peer-reviewed). 11th European Congress for Analytic Philosophy, University of Vienna, Austria, August 2023.

General and specific images: a distinction for the intention-motor interface and its implications for imagery construction (peer-reviewed). 30th European Society for Philosophy and Psychology Conference, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic, August 2023.

General and specific images: a distinction for the intention-motor interface and its implications for imagery construction (peer-reviewed). 11th Congress of the German Society for Analytic Philosophy (GAP), Department of Philosophy, Humboldt-University, Berlin, Germany, September 2022.

General and specific images: an underexplored distinction in studies of imagery and action. Work-in-Progress Seminar, University of Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria, June 2022.

Images all the way down to action: a reply to Fridland. Master- und Dissertantenseminar, University of Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria, November 2021.

Ist Liebe rational? (invited contribution). University of Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria, November 2021.

The backdrop image: towards a new account of imaginative constraints. Master- und Dissertantenseminar, University of Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria, May 2021.

Getting feedback and moving forward: a retelling of internal models for motor control. Work-in-Progress Seminar, University of Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria, January 2021.

Prediction as Imagination. Master- und Dissertantenseminar, University of Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria, December 2020.

A hierarchy of imagistic representations for action. Disposition talk, University of Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria, September 2020.

Faded representations of action: what simulation and emulation theories overlooked. Master- und Dissertantenseminar, University of Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria, April 2020.

Mental imagery in simple decision-making. Master- und Dissertantenseminar, University of Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria, May 2019.

Vulnerability as the other side of a Capability Approach. Master- und Dissertantenseminar, University of Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria, June 2018.

Awards

November 2024 : Young Investigators Award 2024, 2nd place, University of Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria (Section: Making Sense: Theology, Philosophy and Religion)

Professional service

       Reviewer for KRITERION – Journal of Philosophy

Since October 2024 : Co-organizer of the Language, Ethics, & Fiction Seminar Series
for the academic year 2024/2025, Department of Philosophy Piero Martinetti of the
University of Milan, Milan, Italy.

July 2024 : Assistant for the organization of the Conference Mind and Language in
a Natural World, University of Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria.

May 2023: Assistant for the organization of the Second Workshop on Imagistic
Cognition, University of Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria.

2021-2022: Co-organizer of the Salzburg Conference for Young Analytic Philosophy
(SOPhiA).

April 2022: Assistant for the organization of the Workshop on Imagistic Cognition,
University of Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria.

Spring 2022: Co-organizer of the Work-in-Progress Seminar at the University of
Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria.

 Nik Spatari, progetto MUSABA