CV - University of Warwick

CURRICULUM VITAE
DANIEL VANELLO
Department of Philosophy
Social Sciences Building
University of Warwick
Coventry, UK
CV4 7AL
[email protected]
Research Interests
AOS: Phenomenology, esp. Husserl and Sartre; theory of emotion, esp. relation between affect and
value; moral psychology, esp. relation between evaluation and motivation.
AOC: philosophy of mind, esp. phenomenal character of experience; Kant; Aristotle’s practical
philosophy; French existentialism.
Education
PhD, University of Warwick
2013 - present
Thesis Pilot Title: “Emotion and Value: a phenomenological approach”
MPhil, University of Warwick
2011- 2013
(Research Areas: Phenomenology, Kant, Political Philosophy)
Thesis: “Affectivity, Values, and Action: an essay on Sartre’s
phenomenological theory of motivation”
B.A. in Single Honors Philosophy (4 years), Trinity College Dublin
2007-2011
Awarded First Class Honors
Scholarships
Royal Institute of Philosophy Bursary 2015-16, September 2015, (£3000)
Chancellor’s Scholarship, University of Warwick, October 2012- September 2015 (£53,000 ca.)
Foundation Scholarship and elected Scholar of Trinity College Dublin, September 2009-June 2011
(Valid up to 5 years; effective use 2 years; €30,000 ca.)
Other Awards
Mind Association, small conference grant, “Experience and Emotion”, June 2015 (£500)
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Postgraduate Conference Funding, Department of Philosophy, Warwick University, 2015 (£250)
Fee Waiver, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary, workshop “Moral Phenomenology”,
(300 euros), May 2015
Mind Grad 2014: Aristotelian Society conference grant, Mind Association conference grant,
Analysis Trust conference grant (£2000)
Swiss National Centre of Competence in Research, Affective Sciences Stipend for the International
Summer School in Affective Sciences 2014, University of Geneva, (CHF 500; £325)
Postgraduate Conference Funding, Department of Philosophy, Warwick University, 2013 (£150)
Mind Association, small conference grant, “Practical Agency and Values”, 2013 (£600)
Madeleine Farrell Memorial Prize for Best Dissertation in the Philosophy of Mind, 2011 (€100)
Teaching Experience
Teaching Assistant, ‘The Empiricists: Locke, Berkeley, Hume’, Term 1, 2015/2016 (with guest
lecture on Locke’s theory of personal identity)
Teaching Assistant, ‘Ethics: Introduction to Normative and Meta-Ethics’, Term 1, 2014/2015 (with
guest lecture on Aristotle’s Virtue Ethics)
Teaching Assistant, ‘Introduction to Ancient Philosophy: Aristotle’, Term 3, 2013/2014
Teaching Assistant, ‘Introduction to Ancient Philosophy: Socrates and Plato’, Term 2, 2013/2014
Teaching Assistant, ‘Introduction to Ancient Philosophy: the Pre-Socratics’, Term 1, 2013/2014
Teaching Assistant, ‘Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason’, Term 2, 2012/2013
Teaching Assistant, ‘Sartre’s Existentialism’, Term 1, 2012/2013
Teaching Qualifications
Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, January 2015
Postgraduate Award (PGA): Teaching and Learning in Higher Education
(awarded December 2014)
Nominated for the Warwick Awards for Teaching Excellence for Postgraduate Research Students
(WATEPGR), March 2014
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Presentations
“Emotion, Experience, and Value”, Emotion and Experience Workshop, University of Warwick,
UK, February 2016
“Emotional Experience, Appraisal, and Conflict Resolution”, Emotion and Conflict Workshop,
University of Pisa, Italy, February 2016
“Sartre on Affectivity, Value, and Mental Imagery”, The Oxford Research Centre for the
Humanities (TORCH), University of Oxford, December 2015
“Montague on Affect, Value, and Representation”, Centre for Subjectivity Research Summer
School, University of Copenhagen, Denmark, August 2015
“Montague on Affect, Value, and Representation”, Understanding Value IV, University of
Sheffield, July 2015
“Emotional, Experience, Affect, and the Representation of Value”, European Philosophical Society
for the Study of Emotions (EPSSE) Annual Conference, University of Edinburgh, Scotland, July
2015
“Emotional, Experience, Affect, and the Representation of Value”, International Society for the
Research on Emotions (ISRE) Annual Conference, University of Geneva, Switzerland, July 2015
“Emotional, Experience, Affect, and the Representation of Value”, Moral Phenomenology Summer
School, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary, July 2015
“Presence and Absence in the Phenomenology of Emotional Experience”, Annual Conference of the
Nordic Society for Phenomenology, Södertörn University, Stockholm, Sweden, April 2015
“Manipulation as the Digital Disclosure of Space”, Critical Spaces: Disorienting the Topological,
London Graduate School, Kingston University, London, January 2015
“Emotions, Self-Deception, and (Political) Value”, UK Sartre Society Annual Conference, Institut
Francais, London, September 2014
“Imagination and Phenomenology of Perception”, British Philosophy Postgraduate Association
(BPPA) Conference, University of Leeds, September 2014
“Imagination and the Phenomenology of Perception”, Open Minds IX, University of Manchester,
July 2014
“Imagination and the Phenomenology of Perception”, MindForum: UCL-KCL-Warwick
Postgraduate Workshop, University of Warwick, June 2014
“The Original Project in Sartre’s Phenomenology of Motivation”, Warwick Postgraduate Induction
Day, University of Warwick, October 2013
“A Sartrean Challenge to Humeanism About Motivation”, World Philosophies, University of Hull,
June 2013
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“Response” to Peter Poellner’s “Sartre on Practical Reason”, Practical Agency and Values
(Workshop), University of Warwick, May 2013
“A Sartrean Challenge to Humeanism About Motivation”, Warwick-Birbeck Philosophy
Postgraduate Workshop, University of Warwick, April 2013
“World Poverty and Global Justice”, Research Graduate Day, University of Warwick, October 2012
“Husserl, Scheler and the Other”, Subjectivity and the Social World, University of Hull,
June 2012
“Husserl, Scheler, and the Other”, Warwick Work in Progress Seminar, April 2012
Academic Services
Organisation of Conferences and Workshops:
Emotion and Experience, workshop, University of Warwick, February 2016
MindGrad: Warwick Graduate Conference in the Philosophy of Mind, conference, University of
Warwick, December 2014
Practical Agency and Values, workshop, University of Warwick, May 2013
Refereeing:
Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences, special issue on the emotions (2013)
Languages
Italian: mother tongue
English: speaking, reading, writing (mother tongue level)
French: speaking (very good), reading (excellent)
German: reading (good)
Slovene: speaking, reading (very good)
References
Peter Poellner - [email protected]
Matthew Soteriou - [email protected]
Fabienne Peter - [email protected]
Katherine Morris - [email protected]
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