Dr Mattia Gallotti

About
Mattia is a social philosopher with a background in economics and a keen interest in academic governance and innovation. His work is conceptual and the subject is social ontology. Over the years, he has sought to connect and integrate concepts of social philosophy across a range of intellectual discourses and styles, from cognitive science to theology. Before joining LIS as an Associate Professor, Mattia lectured on the philosophy of the social sciences at LSE and he managed a multidisciplinary program on the human mind in the School of Advanced Study at the University of London. As a postdoc, he held fellowships at Columbia University and the Jean Nicod Institute in Paris.
News
Speaking at the biannual conference of the European Philosophy of Science Association (EPSA) in September 2023. The paper is on how to spot and assess interdisciplinary excellence in research.
Teaching
Mattia teaches critical thinking with a focus on writing techniques, research management skills, and problems-related disciplinary perspectives in the human and social sciences.
As a Module Lead, he coordinates the design, development, and delivery of year-one Problems 1c and year two & three Thinking Through Writing.
Research
Mattia’s research focuses on questions about the relationship between mind and society.
Understanding the social world necessitates the integration of concepts of “collective intentionality”, much in the same way as interdisciplinary intelligence emerges from the integration of methods across a network of distributed knowledge.
Selected publications include:
· ‘The Individual ‘We’ Narrator’, The British Journal of Aesthetics (2019) 59, pp. 179-195 (with Raphael Lyne).
· ‘The First-Person Plural Perspective’, in The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of the Social Mind, edited by Julian Kiverstein. Routledge (2016), pp. 387-399.
· ‘Social Cognition in the We-Mode’, Trends in Cognitive Sciences (2013) 17, pp. 160-165 (with Chris Frith).
As Head of Research and Development at LIS, Mattia leads on the development of research activities that provide support to and inspiration for interdisciplinary learning, with a focus on the evaluation of interdisciplinary research outputs.