Julia Langkau

I am an Assistant Professor at the University of Geneva. I'm leading the SNFS Prima project “Creativity, Imagination and Tradition”. My main research areas are philosophy of mind, philosophy of fiction, epistemology and aesthetics. I also write literary fiction.

Patrik Engisch

I am a post-doc researcher at the University of Geneva. I have interests in the philosophy of mind, aesthetics, value theory, and the philosophy of food. I am co-editor of The Philosophy of Recipes: Making, Experiencing, and Valuing (Bloomsbury, 2022) and The Philosophy of Fiction: Imagination and Cognition (Routledge, 2023). I am also the co-founder and coordinator of Culinary Mind, an international centre for the philosophy of food based at the University of Milan.

Anaïs Giannuzzo

I am a PhD student at the University of Geneva, working under Julia Langkau's supervision on the SNFS Prima project “Creativity, Imagination and Tradition”. My research interests revolve around the philosophy of mind, the aesthetics and epistemology. In particular, I am interested in questions such as the acquiring of self-knowledge through works of fiction, the mental states we experience when reading fiction, and narration. Further topics I am eager to explore revolve around creativity and AI, for instance: Is there a link between self-knowledge and creativity? What role does narration play in creative processes? Can a work created by an AI be considered creative, and why (not) – notably with respects to narration and self-knowledge? I also do photography, ceramics, knitting, sewing.