Noga Arikha is a philosopher and historian of ideas trained at the Warburg Institute, with a PhD on the life sciences and mind-body relation in early modern Europe. She works as a “science humanist”, fostering dialogues on the embodied sense of self between neuroscientists, psychologists, clinicians, social scientists, humanists and artists. She is currently a Research Associate at the Florence School of Transnational Governance at the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence, developing a program on “Emotions in Politics” within a Horizon Europe grant, and with the Democratic Odyssey. She is the author of numerous essays, and her books include “The Ceiling Outside: The Science and Experience of the Disrupted Mind” (Basic Books, 2022) and “Passions and Tempers: A History of the Humours” (Ecco/HarperCollins, 2007). Her biography of anthropologist Franz Boas for the “Jewish Lives” series of Yale University Press, “Franz Boas: In Praise of Open Minds”, is due out in May 2025.