Valentina Cuccio is Associate Professor of Philosophy of Science at the Department of Ancient and Modern Civilizations (DiCAM) at the University of Messina, where she also directs the Experimental Philosophy Laboratory. She obtained her PhD in Philosophy of Language and Mind at the University of Palermo. She has conducted postdoctoral research at the University of Parma (Department of Neuroscience and Department of Humanities), Johns Hopkins University (Department of Cognitive Science), the University of Amsterdam, Humboldt University of Berlin (Berlin School of Mind and Brain), and the University of Palermo (Department of Humanities).
She has taught Philosophy of Language, Language and Cognition, and Social Psychology at the University of Parma, the University of Palermo, and Humboldt University, and Philosophy of Science, Psychobiology of Language, Social Neuroscience, Applied Neuroscience, Psychometrics for Cognitive Neuroscience, Foundations of General Psychology, and Cognitive Neuroscience of Language at the University of Messina.
Her research interests primarily focus on the philosophy of the sciences of the mind and experimental pragmatics. Recently, she has published on language and embodied cognition (also with Vittorio Gallese), and she is currently working on the embodiment of metaphor (with Gerard Steen and Martina Ardizzi), on the embodiment of abstract concepts and negation (with Vittorio Gallese) and on the connection between epistemic injustice, metaphor and embodiment (with Francesca Ervas and Francesca Ferri).