I am Full Professor in philosophy at the University of Geneva and project leader at CISA, the Swiss Centre for Affective Sciences. I work in the philosophy of mind and epistemology. My background is in the philosophy of memory, of perception and of affective states. I have published several articles and monographs on the general theory of emotions (The Emotions: A Philosophical Introduction, Routledge 2012), on the nature of shame (In Defense of Shame: The Faces of an Emotion, Oxford 2011) and on memory. I am also interested in the nature of emotions elicited by fiction, in the involvement of the self in emotions as well as in the phenomenolo…

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