Lucy Osler is a Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Exeter. She specialises in phenomenological and 4E approaches to technology, human-AI relations, affectivity, and psychopathology.

Before starting at the University of Exeter in September 2025, Lucy was a lectuerer Cardiff University (2022-2025), and a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Center for Subjectivity Research at the University of Copenhagen on the FWF-funded project ‘Antagonistic Political Emotions’ (2021-2022).

Lucy was awarded her PhD in Philosophy by University of Exeter in January 2021. Her thesis is entitled ‘Interpersonal atmospheres: an empathetic account’ and involves a phenomenological analysis of how we experience individuals and groups as having atmospheres through our feeling bodies. She did her MA in Phenomenology and Philosophy of Mind at the University of Copenhagen, writing her MA thesis on ‘Depression and the Erosion of We-Experiences’.