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

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

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