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Fabian Hundertmark @fhundertmark.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Workshop announcement: Functions and Dysfunctions in Medicine and Psychiatry (11–12 June 2026 at @vlc-lab.bsky.social) with @moody-philosopher.bsky.social, Virginia Ballesteros, @harrif.bsky.social, @frabellazzi.bsky.social, @mjurjako.bsky.social, @hsherl.bsky.social, @emas-b.bsky.social and more.

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11-12 June 2026
workshop on
FUNCTIONS
AND DYSFUNCTIONS
IN MEDICINE AND PSYCHIATRY
Facultat de Filosofia i Ciències de l'Educació • Universitat de València
Virginia Ballesteros
(University of Valencia)
Francesca Bellazzi (Durham University)
Harriet Fagerberg
(University of Cambridge)
Victor Fernández
(University of Granada)
Fabian Hundertmark (University of Valencia)
John Matthewson (Massey University)
Miguel de Prado
(University of Granada)
Henrik Røed Sherling
(University of Cambridge)
Ema Sullivan-Bissett
(University of Birmingham)
Marko Jurjako
(University of Rijeka)
James urnel
(Umeå University
Jerome Wakefield
(New York University)
Organizers: Virginia Ballesteros • Fabian Hundertmark • James Turner
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Francesca Bellazzi @frabellazzi.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

Last Wednesday I had the honour to receive the #ItalyMadeMe award for innovative research issued by the scientific committee of the Italian Embassy to Italian early career researchers in the UK. My prize was sponsored by Il Circolo London and I am grateful to all who supported me in this journey!

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British Journal for the Philosophy of Science @thebjps.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

Santa has come early! New issue out now, full of festive treats for all the family. Biochemical functions and quantum fluctuations! Weyl tiles and ordinal scales! Mass extinctions, artificial neural networks and much more…Find it here: www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/bjps/cur... #philsci #philsky

British Journal for the Philosophy of Science
Volume 76, Issue 4

Table of Contents

Editors' Choice Article:
Semanticization Challenges the Episodic–Semantic Distinction
By Sara Aronowitz

Why the Weyl Tile Argument Is Wrong
By Lu Chen

Biochemical Functions
By Francesca Bellazzi

The Bohmian Approach to the Problems of Cosmological Quantum Fluctuations
By Sheldon Goldstein, Ward Struyve, and Roderich Tumulka

A Hybrid Theory of Induction
By Adrià Segarra

Bayesian Merging of Opinions and Algorithmic Randomness
By Francesca Zaffora Blando

Against Prohibition (or, When Using Ordinal Scales to Compare Groups Is OK)
By Cristian Larroulet Philippi

Are We in a Sixth Mass Extinction? The Challenges of Answering and Value of Asking
By Federica Bocchi, Alisa Bokulich, Leticia Castillo Brache, Gloria Grand-Pierre, and Aja Watkins

A Falsificationist Account of Artificial Neural Networks
By Oliver Buchholz and Eric Raidl

General-Purpose Institutional Decision-Making Heuristics: The Case of Decision-Making under Deep Uncertainty
By David Thorstad

The Typical Principle
By Isaac Wilhelm

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Francesca Bellazzi @frabellazzi.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

New paper accepted in Biology and Philosophy on proteins’ functions. “Shape is everything: on proteins’ functions” develops my account of biochemical functions with a focus on proteins. AMV on PhilPapers. Thanks to @assemblinglife.bsky.social and @leverhulme.ac.uk. philpapers.org/rec/BELSIE

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Francesca Bellazzi @frabellazzi.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

Very honoured to share that I got the prize “Italy Made Me 2025” given by the Italian Embassy to Italian early career researchers in the UK with my project FunMo. Thanks to il Circolo for sponsoring my award. @leverhulme.ac.uk amblondra.esteri.it/en/italia-e-...

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Il sito ufficiale dell'Ambasciata d'Italia a Londra

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Francesca Bellazzi @frabellazzi.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

FunMo Kick-off event “Perspectives on molecular functionality” is coming up this week with a great selection of talks! Thanks to @thebsps.bsky.social and @leverhulme.ac.uk for funding this event. www.durham.ac.uk/research/ins...

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FunMo_2025 - Durham University

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Francesca Bellazzi @frabellazzi.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

I was in Rome for the Emergence in Philosophy&Science summer school and workshop. I gave an overview lecture on emergence in biochemical contexts and a new talk on #AlphaFold and the implications of using AI in science for reductionism. Thanks to the organisers! #FunMo @leverhulme.ac.uk

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Francesca Bellazzi @frabellazzi.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

If you are curious about vitamins or natural kinds in history of science check out my new paper: “What is it about vitamins? Vitamins as investigative kinds” in Philosophy of Science 🎉 www.cambridge.org/core/journal... @philscijournal.bsky.social @leverhulme.ac.uk @assemblinglife.bsky.social

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WHAT IS IT ABOUT VITAMINS? - VITAMINS AS INVESTIGATIVE KINDS | Philosophy of Science | Cambridge Core

WHAT IS IT ABOUT VITAMINS? - VITAMINS AS INVESTIGATIVE KINDS

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Marcin Miłkowski @mmilkowski.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

That's me, delivering my keynote lecture during #EPSA25, introducing the idea of the functional atlas of theories. The conference was a blast! (Photo courtesy @bartoszradomski.bsky.social)

Marcin Miłkowski in a very fancy university hall

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Francesca Bellazzi @frabellazzi.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

Thanks to everyone at #EPSA25 in Groningen. I talked during the AssemblingLife symposium, where we presented the results of the first year of the ERC Project AssemblingLife. Congrats to the organisers of this event for the fantastic experience! @assemblinglife.bsky.social @epsaphilsci.bsky.social

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AssemblingLife @assemblinglife.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

We had a great time at our symposium “Self-assembly and self-organisation in living systems” at #EPSA25. Here some pics from our talks from Gry Oftedal and @jietongx.bsky.social @sanderoest.bsky.social @frabellazzi.bsky.social and Bendik Hellenic-Aaby. 🦋 @epsaphilsci.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu

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AssemblingLife @assemblinglife.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

If you are in Porto for the #ISHPSSB, look out for our team presenting different works on self-assembly&self-organisation! Interesting talks from @sanderoest.bsky.social @jietongx.bsky.social and Bendik Hellem-Aaby 🦋 @erc.europa.eu @uio.no ishpssb2025.icbas.up.pt

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Francesca Bellazzi @frabellazzi.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

I had a terrific time at #BSPS25 and all the talks were amazing. I am grateful to my fellow symposium speakers in “Functions across scientific contexts”, where I presented on molecular functionality in nutrition. #FunMo 🧬 @leverhulme.ac.uk #philsky Full program here: www.thebsps.org/news/2025-gl...

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Francesca Bellazzi @frabellazzi.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

One of my favourite (now yearly) appointment is with the Master in Reproductive Technologies at #UniPv where I am lecturing today about infertility and pregnancy from a philosophical perspective. @leverhulme.ac.uk @durham-university.bsky.social

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Francesca Bellazzi @frabellazzi.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

As every year, I am going to give a lecture on pregnancy at the master in reproductive technology at #UniPV. This year I would like to add a little bit about fertility and infertility as a disease - any reccomended literature? 📚 #philsky #philmedicine

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AssemblingLife @assemblinglife.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

You will find us at #BSPS, #ISHPSSB and #EPSA - ready to present all the work of the last year 🦋 #philsky #philbio #philscience (2/2)

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AssemblingLife @assemblinglife.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

We just concluded our second year project meeting in Copenhagen! It was a great opportunity to get feedback on our drafts and get to know a new project member (details soon). Ahead a summer of conferences and holidays (1/2) 🗣️⛵️ @erc.europa.eu #philsky

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Francesca Bellazzi @frabellazzi.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

Today I presented a short talk on #AlphaFold and biochemical functionality at the Turing Tables of the London AI and Humanities Project at the Institute of Philosophy ~ learning so many things in this program! #philsky #philAI #FunMo🧬

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Francesca Bellazzi @frabellazzi.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

First activity of #FunMo! Starting today my time as AI Fellow of the London AI and Humanity Project organised by the Institute of Philosophy and Google DeepMind. I will try to figure out what #AlphaFold can tell us about proteins and bio-functionality. #philsky philosophy.sas.ac.uk/laihp/summer...

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The Summer of AI

The Institute of Philosophy welcome you to the Summer of AI, a three-part series of event from April to July 2025

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Francesca Bellazzi @frabellazzi.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

My Leverhulme Trust project #FunMo: functions at the molecular scale is officially up and running at the Department of Philosophy at Durham University 🧬 @durham-university.bsky.social @leverhulme.ac.uk #philsky #leverhulmetrust (1/2)

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Francesca Bellazzi @frabellazzi.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Fellow Italian philosophers of science, how do you navigate the clash between #EPSA and #SIFA this summer? Both of them are looking great but also exactly at the same time 😬 #philsky #philscience

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Francesca Bellazzi @frabellazzi.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Saying goodbye to Oslo for now, I had a fantastic time and will bring everything with me into my next adventure. Very grateful I will keep on collaborating with @assemblinglife.bsky.social as part of my Leverhulme project. The fjord will always be in my heart 💙🇳🇴 #philsky #lovenorway

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Lisa Bortolotti @lisabortolotti.com · 12/04/2025

Our little book is about learning how to listen to those who need our help so we avoid making their lives even harder. Happens to be about healthcare too but the message has wider applications link.springer.com/book/10.1007... #booksky #philsky #epistemicinjustice #openaccess

Book details: Epistemic Justice in Mental Healthcare (Springer 2025)

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Francesca Bellazzi @frabellazzi.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

One year ago we started a small online reading group on functions and now we have our first workshop on biological functions! Proud of the growing functions in philosophy network 💙 thanks to best co-organiser @harrif.bsky.social and @assemblinglife.bsky.social @leverhulme.ac.uk #philsky

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AssemblingLife @assemblinglife.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

This week we are hosting a workshop on Biological functions organised by @frabellazzi.bsky.social and @harrif.bsky.social. Check out the program and get in touch if you want to attend remotely 🦋 www.hf.uio.no/ifikk/englis... In collaboration with @leverhulme.ac.uk #philsky

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Cambridge-Oslo Workshop on Biological Functions - Department of Philosophy, Classics, History of Art and Ideas

First meeting of Functions in Philosophy Network

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Francesca Bellazzi @frabellazzi.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Super excited to officially share that I will start a new job as Assistant Professor and Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellow at Durham University from 1/05! I will be running my *dream project* “FunMo: functions at the molecular scale”🤓 🧬 @leverhulme.ac.uk @durhamuniversity.bsky.social

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AssemblingLife @assemblinglife.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Last week us&CPS organised a great workshop on “ScaM: scales and measurement in the sciences”. We kicked off with some group work and ended up with a panel discussion. Thanks to all the attendees and speakers! @federicabocchi.bsky.social @beccajackson.bsky.social @uio.no

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Francesca Bellazzi @frabellazzi.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

It has been such a great workshop with amazing speakers 🙌🏻 and we all learned so much on measurement and scales in the sciences 📐 @assemblinglife.bsky.social @uio.no #philsky

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Francesca Bellazzi @frabellazzi.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

So great to see the amazing philosopher Katie Robertson chairing this debate 😍

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AssemblingLife @assemblinglife.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Exciting week of #AssemblingLife events ahead: 📖 Reading group on AssemblingLife&Medicine with Sara Green, Rebecca Jackson and Harriet Fagerberg 🗣️ Science Colloquium with Sara Green 📐📏 ScaM workshop organised with #CPS www.hf.uio.no/ifikk/englis...

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ScaM workshop: on scale and measurement in the sciences - Department of Philosophy, Classics, History of Art and Ideas

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Francesca Bellazzi @frabellazzi.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Had a lot of fun presenting this work in progress based on the workshop we did with @simonlohse.bsky.social and @karimbschir.bsky.social 🤓 #philsky #philscience

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Vanessa Seifert @vanessaseifert.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

I tried to give my take on whether water is wet for the BBC World Service - CrowdScience! The episode hosts chemists and material scientists too so this is a really nice & rounded way to approach the question. Here is the link: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w...

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BBC World Service - CrowdScience, Is water wet?

The wetness of water seems obvious - but dive into the science and it's not so clear cut

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AssemblingLife @assemblinglife.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Today our postdoc Bendik Hellem-Aaby gave a fantastic talk on the interplay between self-organisation and natural selection at the CPS LunchTime seminar 🦋 www.hf.uio.no/ifikk/englis...

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Kathleen Murphy-Hollies @kmurphyhollies.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

We’re very excited to receive all the submissions from our lovely invited authors 😌 We’re also open for wider submissions! Deadline is just over 3 weeks away, at the end of this month 🤓

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Francesca Bellazzi @frabellazzi.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

The #CPS book club is one of my favourite activities and this week we interviewed Hilary Gaskin, editor at CUP, about book publishing and writing! #philsky @cambridgeup.bsky.social www.hf.uio.no/english/rese...

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CPS Book Club: Hilary Gaskin - Centre for Philosophy and the Sciences (CPS)

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AssemblingLife @assemblinglife.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

The team is growing - last month we welcomed our new PhD researcher Hilde Langengen Teigen. Hilde will explore the explanatory role and scope of the predictive processing framework by identifying self-assembly processes in the brain in relation to brain function. 🦋 www.hf.uio.no/ifikk/englis...

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Welcome Hilde! - Department of Philosophy, Classics, History of Art and Ideas

Hilde Langengen Teigen is our new PhD student.

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Alisa Bokulich @alisabokulich.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

2+year postdoc at Leibniz University Hannover in ERC project MODEL TRANSFER for someone working with computational tools Candidates with a background in #philsci #histsci, digital humanities, #hopos are welcome to apply. Deadline April 10 job ad: www.uni-hannover.de/en/jobs/id/7...

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Postdoctoral Researcher in Digital Humanities or Digital/Computational Philosophy of Science – Leibniz University Hannover

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Emily Herring @emilyherring.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

I'm trying to put together a history and philosophy of biology and medicine starter pack! Let me know who to add, including if that is you! go.bsky.app/UCbEmtj

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Francesca Bellazzi @frabellazzi.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Last days to apply for the #postdocs in @assemblinglife.bsky.social at UiO! It is a great project in a fantastic team! 🦋 #philjobs www.hf.uio.no/ifikk/om/org...

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Francesca Bellazzi @frabellazzi.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

My article for #PhilosophyCompass on the Metaphysics of Pregnancy has been accepted for publication! It has been the result of some years of teaching and I think it’s such a cool topic. 🎉 Here is the link to the AAM version: philpapers.org/rec/BELTMO-20 @assemblinglife.bsky.social 🦋

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Francesca Bellazzi, The Metaphysics of Pregnancy - PhilPapers

Pregnancy is a one of the most complex phenomena of life and is essential to the life cycle of mammals. Pregnancy is also a crucial aspect of humans’ life and experience. ...

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AssemblingLife @assemblinglife.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

We are hiring one 3yr post doc and one 2yr researcher to work on philosophy of science in the AssemblingLife project! Please distribute to possible applicants! Deadline: Feb 28 www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

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Postdoctoral Fellow and Researcher in Philosophy of Science -  "AssemblingLife" (271935) | University of Oslo

Job title: Postdoctoral Fellow and Researcher in Philosophy of Science -  "AssemblingLife" (271935), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Friday, February 28, 2025

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AssemblingLife @assemblinglife.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

The @AssemblingLife project is on Bluesky! Excited to share our activities and work on philosophy of self-assembly and self-organization in living systems. Follow us here for updates on project research and events, and have a look at our website: www.hf.uio.no/ifikk/englis...

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Assembling Life - Department of Philosophy, Classics, History of Art and Ideas

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Francesca Bellazzi @frabellazzi.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

The ERC #AssemblingLife Project at @uio.no is now on Bsky 🦋 Please give it a follow for all info about self-assembly and self-organisation in biology and everything we are doing in the project 💯 #philsky #philosophy @erc.europa.eu bsky.app/profile/asse...

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Vanessa Seifert @vanessaseifert.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

I don’t know what to say abt this apart from how honoured and thankful I am. This paper really took a life of its own from the very beginning it came out. It’s a genuine product of interdisciplinarity, merging the philosophy of physics with chemistry.

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Tuomas Tahko @ttahko.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Proud to see @vanessaseifert.bsky.social and Alex Franklin win the BJPS Popper Prize for 2024 with their joint paper that was developed during the MetaScience ERC project. Plus honourable mention for Toby Friend's paper. Three MetaScience project members featured! www.thebsps.org/auxhyp/bjps-...

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BJPS Popper Prize 2024 | Auxiliary Hypotheses | BJPS

Winner of the 2024 BJPS Popper Prize announced

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Francesca Bellazzi @frabellazzi.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Had a lot of fun giving this seminar on complexity and functions in biochemistry for the biomedical phd students of #UniCampus! Great exchange between philosophy and biomedicine 🧬 #AssemblingLife @erc.europa.eu

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