I'm an SNSF Ambizione Fellow in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Geneva, where I'm also a member of Thumos (The Genevan Research Group on Emotions, Values and Norms).
I'm also an Affiliated Member of the Centre for Philosophy of Memory at the University Grenoble Alpes.
From 2022-2023, I was an Alexander von Humboldt Postdoctoral Research Fellow at CONCEPT (Cologne Center for Contemporary Epistemology and the Kantian Tradition) at the University of Cologne.
From 2020-2022, I was a McDonnell Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Philosophy and the Philosophy-Neuroscience-Psychology Program at Washington University in St. Louis.
From 2019-2020, I was a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Centre for Philosophy of Memory at the University Grenoble Alpes.
My research interests are in philosophy of mind and philosophy of psychology, with a particular focus on the relationship between memory, perception, and imagination.
A. Sant'Anna and C. F. Craver, eds. In preparation. The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Memory. Oxford University Press.
A. Sant'Anna, C. J. McCarroll, and K. Michaelian, eds. 2023. Current Controversies in Philosophy of Memory. Routledge.
A. Sant'Anna, ed. 2021. Philosophy of Memory. Special issue. Acta Scientiarum: Human and Social Sciences 43(3).
A. Sant'Anna, K. Michaelian, and D. Perrin, eds. 2020. Memory as Mental Time Travel. Special issue. Review of Philosophy and Psychology 11(2).
A. Sant'Anna. Forthcoming. Dream memories, metacognition, and the nature of dream experiences. Dreaming and Memory: Philosophical Issues. Springer. Eds. D. Gregory and K. Michaelian.
A. Sant'Anna. Forthcoming. Metacognition and the puzzle of alethic memory. Philosophy and the Mind Sciences.
D. Perrin, C. Moulin, and A. Sant'Anna. Forthcoming. Déjà vécu is not déjà vu: An ability view. Philosophical Psychology.
A. Sant'Anna. Forthcoming. Unsuccessful remembering: A challenge for the relational view of memory. Erkenntnis.
A. Sant'Anna. Forthcoming. Is remembering constructive imagining? Synthese 202: 141.
A. Sant'Anna & D Perrin. 2023. Fluency and the inaccuracy of recall. Constructivist Foundations,: 19(1): 72-74.
A. Sant'Anna, K. Michaelian, & N. Andonovski. 2023. Autonoesis and episodicity: Perspectives from philosophy of memory. WIREs: Cognitive Science: e1665.
C. Schirmer dos Santos, C. McCarroll, and A. Sant'Anna. 2023. The relation between memory and imagination: A debate about the right concepts. Current Controversies in Philosophy of Memory. Routledge. Eds. A. Sant'Anna, C. McCarroll, and K. Michaelian.
A. Sant'Anna, C. McCarroll, and K. Michaelian. 2023. Current Controversies in Philosophy of Memory: Editors’ Introduction. Current Controversies in Philosophy of Memory. Routledge. Eds. A. Sant'Anna, C. McCarroll, and K. Michaelian.
A. Sant'Anna and V. Dranseika. 2022. Does Macbeth see a dagger? An empirical argument for the existence-neutrality of seeing. Erkenntnis 87: 1539-1562.
A. Sant'Anna and M. Barkasi. 2022. Reviving the naïve realist approach to memory. Philosophy and the Mind Sciences 3: 14.
D. Perrin and A. Sant'Anna. 2022. Episodic memory and the feeling of pastness: From intentionalism to metacognition. Synthese 200: 109.
K. Michaelian and A. Sant'Anna. 2022. From authenticism to alethism: Against McCarroll on observer memory. Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences 21: 835-856.
K. Michaelian, D. Perrin, A. Sant'Anna, and C. Schirmer dos Santos. 2022. Mental time travel. Palgrave Encyclopedia of the Possible. Ed. V. P. Glăveanu. Palgrave Macmillan.
A. Sant'Anna. 2021. Introduction: Philosophy of Memory. Acta Scientiarum: Human and Social Sciences 43(3): e61814.
K. Michaelian and A. Sant’Anna. 2021. Memory without content? Radical enactivism and (post)causal theories of memory. Synthese 198(Suppl 1): S307-S335.
A. Sant'Anna. 2021. Attitudes and the (dis)continuity between memory and imagination. Estudios de Filosofia 64: 73-93.
A. Sant'Anna. 2021. Mnemonic causation, construction, and the particularity of episodic memory. Aufklärung 8: 57-70.
D. Perrin, K. Michaelian, and A. Sant'Anna. 2020. The phenomenology of remembering is an epistemic feeling. Frontiers in Psychology 11: 1531.
A. Sant'Anna, K. Michaelian, and D. Perrin. 2020. Editorial: Memory as mental time travel. Review of Philosophy and Psychology 11(2): 223-232.
K. Michaelian, D. Perrin, and A. Sant’Anna. 2020. Continuities and discontinuities between imagination and memory: The view from philosophy. The Cambridge Handbook of Imagination. Ed. A. Abraham. Cambridge University Press. Pp. 293-310.
A. Sant'Anna. 2020. The hybrid contents of memory. Synthese 197: 1263–1290.
A. Sant'Anna and K. Michaelian. 2019. Thinking about events: A pragmatist account of the objects of episodic hypothetical thought. Review of Philosophy and Psychology 10(1): 187–217.
A. Sant'Anna and K. Michaelian. 2019. Teorias sobre o lembrar: causalismo, simulacionismo e funcionalismo. Voluntas 10(3): 8-36.
A. Sant'Anna. 2018. Episodic memory as a propositional attitude: A critical perspective. Frontiers in Psychology 9: 1220.
A. Sant'Anna. 2018. Perception pragmatized: a pragmatic reconciliation of representationalism and relationalism. Philosophia 46(2): 411–432.
A. Sant'Anna. 2018. Mental time travel and the philosophy of memory. Unisinos Journal of Philosophy 19(1): 52-62.
A. Sant'Anna. 2014. The role of selection in functional explanations. Manuscrito 37(2): 227-267.
A. Sant'Anna. 2019. Review of C. J. McCarroll, Remembering from the Outside: Personal Memory and the Perspectival Mind (Oxford University Press 2018). Memory Studies 12(4): 465–479.