Elvira Di Bona is Assistant Professor of Philosophy of Mind at the University of Turin. She spent more than four years as a postdoctoral fellow at the Polonsky Academy at The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute (Israel). She also held postdoctoral positions at the Italian Academy of Columbia University (NYC), the Freie Universität Berlin (sponsored by DAAD), and the University of Turin (sponsored by the Franco and Marilisa Caligara Foundation). Her main research interests are in the philosophy of mind and aesthetics. She also works on a number of topics in the philosophy of language and the philosophy of music. She published extensively on auditory perception, the metaphysics of sound, language understanding, and the content of perceptual experience.