Giulia Martina

I am a philosopher of perception and mind at TU Dortmund University. I am currently working on the just-launched international project 'Naive realism under pressure', which explores some new challenges to naive realist views of perceptual experience. Previously, I was a postdoc at the Universities of Salzburg, Turin, Tübingen, and Konstanz. I received my PhD from the University of Warwick in 2020.

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I am interested in what we perceive, how we perceive it, and how we talk about that. A good chunk of my recent work has focused on olfaction. I have argued that, in spite of the variations in how things smell across contexts and subjects, smells are objective qualities. Moreover, I have argued that we can smell odorous things, like cookies, a cup of coffee, and cake burning, and not just their smells. Building on work in linguistics, I have advanced an answer to the question of how we manage to talk about smells, given their supposed ineffability. More broadly, I have been working on perceptual variation, illusions, and the metaphysics of perceivable entities.

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I currently live in Dortmund, Germany, with my husband Simon Wimmer who is also a philosopher. I like learning about the variety of people's experiences, cooking, taking walks, eating and drinking new things (especially coffee!), and contemporary art.