Emily Lawson

I am a Vanier Scholar and Ph.D. candidate in philosophy at the University of British Columbia. I primarily work on the philosophy of emotion and imagination at the intersection of philosophy of mind, Indian philosophy, and aesthetics. My doctoral research focuses on emotion in aesthetic experience, especially rasa (aesthetic emotion) theory in Classical Sanskrit and modern South Asian philosophy. I also work on the philosophy of mind and philosophical psychology of daydreaming and other imaginative experiences. I am writing a book on death and imagination for Columbia University press. Website