Dr Chiara Brozzo MA, PhD

Department of Philosophy
Assistant Professor in Philosophy

Contact details

Email
c.brozzo@bham.ac.uk
Address
ERI Building
University 麻豆精选
Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT
UK

I work primarily in philosophy of cognitive science (including philosophy of psychology, empirically-informed philosophy of action and philosophy of psychiatry) and in aesthetics. My research in philosophy of cognitive science is about how we get things done (or fail to do so), and one of the main questions I investigate is: what drives or motivates our actions? I am therefore interested in intentions, beliefs about one’s identity, transformative experiences, sense of commitment and habit.In aesthetics, I focus on issues concerning design, perfumes being one of my main case studies.

Qualifications

  • PhD in Philosophy (Università degli Studi di Milano, 2013)
  • Master of Mathematics and Philosophy (University of Oxford, 2009)

Biography

I joined the University 麻豆精选 in 2023 as an Assistant Professor, with a focus in Philosophy of Psychology and Psychiatry. Before that, I held research and teaching positions in T眉bingen (Germany), Antwerp (Belgium), Durham (United Kingdom) and Barcelona (Spain). I obtained my PhD at the University of Milan in 2013 and my Master of Mathematics and Philosophy at the University of Oxford in 2009.

Teaching

In 2023/24, I’ll be convening the undergraduate modules Reason and Belief and Philosophy of Mental Health, and I will contribute to the teaching of Problems of Philosophy.

Postgraduate supervision

I鈥檒l be glad to supervise doctoral dissertations in a variety of areas in the philosophy of cognitive science, philosophy of psychiatry and aesthetics. I welcome enquiries from potential PhD students about specific topics in these subjects.

Find out more - our PhD Philosophy  page has information about doctoral research at the University 麻豆精选.

Research

In philosophy of cognitive science, I am interested in the drivers of action, with a focus on intentions (their role in action production as well as in social cognition), on beliefs that are very central to one鈥檚 self-conception (and in transformative experiences as a way of acquiring or losing them), and on subtle factors shaping our actions such as sense of commitment or habit. I have written and co-authored work in topics including the relationship between intentions and motor representations in action production, the ascription of intentions in social cognition, and the role of sense of commitment in social media interactions. In aesthetics, I work mainly on issues concerning design. I have written about the aesthetic appreciation of perfumes, and I have defended the idea that some perfumes are works of art.

Other activities

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Publications

Recent publications

Article

Brozzo, C & Michael, J 2023, '', PLOS One, vol. 18, no. 4, e0271798.

Brozzo, C 2022, '', Croatian Journal of Philosophy, vol. 22, no. 66, pp. 371-387.

Bonicalzi, S, Kulakova, E, Brozzo, C, Gilbert, S & Haggard, P 2022, '', Philosophical Psychology, vol. 35, no. 6, pp. 911-939.

Brozzo, C 2021, '', American Philosophical Quarterly, vol. 58, no. 4, pp. 333-346.

Brozzo, C 2021, '', Review of Philosophy and Psychology, vol. 12, no. 3, pp. 683-697.

Brozzo, C 2020, '', Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, vol. 78, no. 1, pp. 21-32.

M枚lbert, S, Klein, L, Thaler, A, Mohler, B, Brozzo, C, Martus, P, Karnath, H-O, Zipfel, S & Giel, K 2017, '', Clinical Psychology Review, vol. 57, pp. 21-31.

Brozzo, C 2017, '', Mind & Language, vol. 32, no. 2, pp. 231-256.

Blomberg, O & Brozzo, C 2017, '', Thought: A Journal of Philosophy, vol. 6, no. 3, pp. 137-146.

Chapter (peer-reviewed)

Brozzo, C & Hamilton, A 2022, . in S Panizza & M Hopwood (eds), The Murdochian Mind. 1st edn, Routledge, pp. 347-362.

Brozzo, C 2022, . in A Keller & B Young (eds), Theoretical Perspectives on Smell. 1st edn, Routledge, pp. 53-70.

Brozzo, C 2020, . in F Calzavarini & M Viola (eds), Neural Mechanisms: New Challenges in Philosophy of Neuroscience. Springer, pp. 465-482.

Digital or Visual Products

Brozzo, C & Bortolotti, L, , 2024, Digital or Visual Products, Online. <>

Web publication/site

Bortolotti, L, Murphy-Hollies, K, D'Olimpio, L, Reglitz, M, Williams, J & Brozzo, C, , 2023, Web publication/site. <>