I am a Research Fellow at the Centre for Biomedical Ethics, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore. Previously, I was a Research Associate at the Department of Psychology and a Junior Research Fellow at Wolfson College, University of Cambridge. My research interests are in aesthetics, metaphysics, moral psychology, and experimental philosophy.
I earned my BA, MA, and PhD at the Institute of Philosophy, Vilnius University, Lithuania. During my doctoral studies, I spent a year as a visiting PhD student at Institut Jean Nicod in Paris, France.
Before I became a philosopher, I studied violin at Vilnius Conservatoire.
I am a steering committee member of the European Network for Philosophy of Music, a board member of the Lithuanian Philosophical Association, and an editorial team member at the journal Experimental Philosophy.
You will find my CV here.
My collaborators:
Mario Attie-Picker
Mey Bahar Büyükbabani
Clément Canonne
Rosemary Chandler-Wilde
Edoardo Chidichimo
Yueying Chu
Ryan Doran
Vilius Dranseika
Brian Earp
Veronica Forslund
Ivar Hannikainen
Maryam Khan
Markus Kneer
Shen-yi Liao
Peng Liu
Emily McKendrick
Sebastian Porsdam Mann
Julian Savulescu
Simone Schnall
Jasmina Stevanov
RECENT PUBLICATIONS
Mikalonytė, E. S. & Earp, B. D. (in press). Why Gradual Minds May Still Require Sharp Lines: A Review of Joshua May’s Neuroethics. Philosophical Psychology.
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Khan, M. A., Mikalonytė, E. S., Porsdam Mann, S., Liu, P., Chu, Y., Attie-Picker, M., Buyukbabani, M. B., Savulescu, J., Hannikainen, I. R., & Earp, B. D. (in press). Personalizing AI-Generated Art Boosts Credit, Not Beauty. Technology in Society.
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Mikalonytė, E. S., Stevanov, J., Doran, R. P., Symons, K., & Schnall, S. (in press). Transformed by Beauty: Aesthetic Appreciation Increases Abstract Thinking and Self-Transcendent Emotions in an Art Museum. Empirical Studies of the Arts.
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Mikalonytė, E. S. (in press). Experimental Ontology of Music. In C. Canonne and F. Gribenski (Eds.), New Methods and New Challenges in Empirical Musicology. Oxford University Press.
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Mikalonytė, E. S., Kneer, M. (in press). The Folk Concept of Art. Synthese.
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Mikalonytė, E. S., Doran, R. P., and Liao, S. (2024). Experimental Philosophy of Art and Aesthetics. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
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Mikalonytė, E. S. (2024). Musical Works Are Mind-Independent Artifacts. Synthese, 203, 4.
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Mikalonytė, E. S., Canonne, C. (2023). Does the Phineas Gage Effect Extend to Aesthetic Value? Philosophical Psychology, 1–27.
Mikalonytė, E. S., Kneer, M. (2023). What Is Art? The Role of Intention, Beauty, and Institutional Recognition. Proceedings of the 45th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 3039–3047.
Mikalonytė, E. S., Kneer, M. (2022). Can Artificial Intelligence Make Art? Folk Intuitions as to whether AI-driven Robots Can Be Viewed as Artists and Produce Art. ACM Transactions on Human-Robot Interaction, 11(4), 1–19.
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Mikalonytė, E. S., Dranseika, V. (2022). The Role of Teleological Thinking in Judgments of Persistence of Musical Works. The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, 80(1), 42–57.
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Mikalonytė, E.S. (2022). Intuitions in the Ontology of Musical Works. Review of Philosophy and Psychology, 13(2), 455–474.
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Mikalonytė, E. S., Dranseika, V. (2020). Intuitions on the Individuation of Musical Works: An Empirical Study. The British Journal of Aesthetics, 60(3), 253–282.
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