Email: victor.carranza[at]uni-muenster[dot]de
Address: Philosophisches Seminar, Domplatz 23, 48143 Münster
I am a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Münster, where I am member of the collaborative project "The role of individual internal states in niche choice, niche construction, and behavioural niche conformance" led by Ulrich Krohs.
I completed my Ph.D. at the University of Milan and the École Normale Supérieure in 2022. You can find my CV here.
My current research explores topics related to the empirical study of non-human minds and to the expressive aspects of communication.
(2025) Towards a scientific definition of animal emotions: integrating innate, appraisal, and network mechanisms. (w. Ulrich Krohs & Helene Richter) Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews 172. [final]
(2025) Scaffolding and individuality in early childhood development. (w. Laura Diprossimo) Topoi. [final]
(2024) Slurring individuals. Inquiry. [final]
(2024) Rethinking core affect: the role of dominance in animal behaviour and welfare research. Synthese 203(153). [final]
(2023) Appraising evidence for valence. (Commentary) Animal Sentience 33(31). [final]
(2023) Slurs’ variability, emotional dimensions, and game-theoretic pragmatics. Logic and Engineering of Natural Language Semantics. [penultimate][final]
(2022) The landscape of affective meaning. Ph.D. Dissertation. [final]
(2021) The pragmatics of all-purpose pejoratives. Proceedings of the 2021 Workshop on Context. [final]