Jelena Marković

Jelena is a philosopher working in empirically-informed philosophy of mind and moral psychology. Her research focuses on unchosen transformative experiences, especially grief, and on the philosophical psychology of attention. In her work on grief, she has argued that grief is an unchosen transformative experience involving a disruption to and reorganization of organized systems of practical meaning. In addition to articles on transformative experience, she has published on the cognitive science and philosophy of attention, including on affect-biased attention, hypnosis, and meditative states.

Jelena holds a PhD in philosophy from the University of British Columbia. Prior to UVA, she was a fellow at the Maison de la Création et de l’Innovation at the Université Grenoble Alpes, affiliated with the Centre for Philosophy of Memory and the Performance Lab.