Biography
Elzė is a Research Associate at the Department of Psychology and a Junior Research Fellow at Wolfson College, University of Cambridge, currently working on the Higher Values project.
Her doctoral work focused on the philosophy of music and the ontology of musical works. As part of her doctoral research, she conducted experimental philosophy studies in musical ontology. In addition to her doctoral research, she investigated other topics in experimental philosophy of aesthetics, such as the folk concept of art, judgments of the identity of artworks, and intuitions on AI-created art.
Publications
Mikalonytė, E. S. (in press). Musical Works Are Mind-Independent Artifacts. Synthese.
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.
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.
Mikalonytė, E. S. (2022). Intuitions in the Ontology of Musical Works. Review of Philosophy and Psychology, 13, 2, 455-474.
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.
Mikalonytė, E. S., (2019). Emocijų metaforinė egzemplifikacija grynojoje muzikoje. Problemos, 95, 117–129.
Mikalonytė E. S. (2018). Why Does Pure Music Not Have Semantic Content? Revista Portuguesa de Filosofia, 74, 4, 1355–76.
Mikalonytė, E. S. & Dranseika, V., (2018). Muzikos konceptualizavimas erdvės ir judėjimo metaforomis. Psichologija, 57, 54–73.
Other Professional Activities
I am a steering committee member of the European Network for Philosophy of Music and a board member of the Lithuanian Philosophical Association.
