About Anya Daly

Anya is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy and Ethics in the School of Humanities, University of Tasmania. Interdisciplinary collaborations are at the core of Anya’s research interests. She investigates the intersections of phenomenology with philosophy of mind, the philosophy of perception, the philosophy of psychiatry, embodied and social cognition, enactivism, ethics, aesthetics and Buddhist Philosophy. Anya spent five years researching and teaching in France (2005-2010) under the supervision of Professor Renaud Barbaras. Anya completed a double-badged doctorate (en-cotutelle) between Université de Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne et University of Melbourne in December 2012. She spent two years in Dublin at University College Dublin under the mentorship of Professor Dermot Moran, on an Irish Research Council Fellowship (2016-2018). Anya has received funding from national and international institutions to support her research projects and also to facilitate the dissemination of her own work and the work of others through publications, organising workshops and conferences. Notable among these was The Inhuman Gaze, a three-day multi-disciplinary international conference spanning the disciplines of philosophy, cognitive neuroscience, psychiatry, psychology, sociology and aesthetics, which was hosted in Paris 2018 - https://theinhumangaze.com/. Papers from this conference were published by Routledge in an edited volume. https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/10.4324/9780367815707/perception-inhuman-gaze-dermot-moran-fred-cummins-anya-daly-james-jardine She is the author of Merleau-Ponty and the Ethics of Intersubjectivity (2016) (https://link.springer.com/book/10.1057/978-1-137-52744-8 )and has published articles in ethics, aesthetics, philosophy of psychiatry, feminism, social cognition, philosophy of psychology, philosophy of perception, philosophy of technology, ontology and animal ethics.

Dr. Anya Daly, Senior Lecturer in Philosophy and Ethics, School of Arts and Society, University of Tasmania, Australia anya.daly@utas.edu.au

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NBN Episodes hosted by Anya:

October 18, 2026

In Defence of the Human Being

Thomas Fuchs

Hosted by Anya Daly

At a time when artificial intelligence, neuroscience, and digital technologies increasingly shape our understanding of what it means to be human, Fuch…

October 11, 2026

Healing and the Invention of Metaphor

Laurence J. Kirmayer

Hosted by Anya Daly

It has long been understood that illness is influenced not only by our bodies' physiology, but also language, culture, and meaning. Healing and the In…

September 4, 2026

The Self and its Disorders

Shaun Gallagher

Hosted by Anya Daly

In this interview, Shaun Gallagher discusses The Self and its Disorders (Oxford University Press, 2024)A ground-breaking theory of the self as a patte…