How do we work out, and act on, what matters to us?

Rosa Hardt, a PhD student in Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh, explores how emotions influence our ability to make moral judgements and why storytelling is important for the judgements we make.

Find out what made her pursue a PhD in philosophy and get introduced to philosophical concepts such as moral agency and mental time travel as we discuss her research.

Related links:

Rosa Hardt: http://www.ed.ac.uk/profile/rosa-hardt 

Storytelling agents: why narrative rather than mental time travel is fundamental.
Hardt, R. Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11097-017-9530-2