Urte Laukaityte is joining the Department of Philosophy and the History of Ideas as a postdoctoral fellow on the research project 'Rationality, Destigmatisation, and Mental Disorder', led by Somogy Varga.

She did her PhD in philosophy at UC Berkeley, focusing on an inferential account of symptom perception and its implications for psychiatry. Her work has relevance for mind-body phenomena like functional neurological disorder, mass psychogenic illness, placebo/nocebo, hypnosis, and suchlike.
Her theorising regularly draws from empirical frameworks, notably predictive processing/active inference. Prior to this, Urte attained a MSc in cognitive science at the University of Edinburgh and a BA in linguistics at the University of Cambridge. She has active research interests in philosophy of medicine and psychiatry, but also cognitive science, psychology, biology, and related areas.

Urte has also been involved in public-facing science communication via the medium of audio (Many Minds podcast) as well as print (Public Domain Review, History Today, Aeon).

Contact:
Urte Laukaityte
School of Culture and Society
Jens Chr. Skous Vej 7
Bygning 1467
8000 Aarhus C
urte.laukas@cas.au.dk