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Losner Briones

@losnerbriones.com
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He/him. Vegan. Doctoral researcher in Philosophy of Science at UNED in Madrid. 🔎 Measurement, evidence, and construct validity in the evaluation of cash transfer experiments. 🔎 Causal extrapolation in regulatory pharmacology. 🌐 www.losnerbriones.com

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Losner Briones @losnerbriones.com · 15/06/2026
Last week I was presenting my work at the 4th Lake Como INEM Summer School in Philosophy of Economics! I enjoyed the breadth of topics covered, the excellent presentations, and, above all, the opportunity to engage with scholars I would rarely meet at the phil of sci conferences I usually attend.
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Losner Briones @losnerbriones.com · 05/05/2026
The schedule for the XIV PBCS is out! 🗣️ Keynote speakers: Enara García, @alejandrofabregastejeda.com, and José Antonio Pérez-Escobar. 🗣️ 15 double-blind peer-reviewed talks by master's and PhD students, as well as early postdoctoral researchers. 🕘📍 June 18–19, 2026, at UNED, Madrid. #philsci
XIV WORKSHOP OPN PHILOSOPHY OF BIOLOGY AND COGNITIVE SCIENCES

SCHEDULE

THURSDAY 18 JUNE - SALA B

08:30-09:00
Registration & welcoming

09:00-09:30
CRISTIAN SABORIDO
Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED)

09:30-10:05
DAVID SÁNCHEZ
Universidad de Granada (UGR)
Teleology Without Representation:
Meaning and Function in Ecological Psychology

10:05-10:40
ELIAS COHEN
École des hautes études en sciences sociales / Institut Jean-Nicod (EHESS / Jean-Nicod Paris)
Situating mental representation:
Perry’s “Thought without representation” in an enactivist context

10:40-11:15
ANDREAS T. POMMER
Københavns Universitet (KU)
Population-Level Representations and Computations
Afford Causal Explanations

11:15-11:30
Coffee Break

11:30-12:05
AINHOA RODRIGUEZ-MUGURUZA
Universidad del País Vasco / Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea (UPV/EHU)
Menstrual Health as Rhythmic Plasticity

12:05-12:40
REBECCA R. CUCINIELLO
Università di Genova (UniGe)
Integrating plasticity and teleology:
lessons from Ernst Mayr’s somatic programs

12:40-14:10
ENARA GARCÍA
Syddansk Universitet (SDU)
The Path-Dependent Mind:
Individuation, Vulnerability, and the Ontogenesis of Mental Disorder

14:10-16:00
Lunch

16:00-16:35
MAYO PINTO-CANDENAS
Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM)
Ambivalencia Funcional de los Síntomas Psiquiátricos:
el caso de la anorexia nerviosa16:35-17:10
ASTRID RENG
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU Munich)
Mental health and options for mental action

17:10-17:45
JAMES TURNER
Umeå universitet (Umeå)
Low Mood, Proper Function, and Dysfunction:
The Case Against Depression as a Natural Kind

17:45-18:20
BENEDETTA COGO
University of Wollongong (UOW)
Keeping it rational in the philosophy of psychiatry

18:20-18:30
Closure

FRIDAY 19 JUNE - SALA A

08:30-09:00
Registration & welcoming

09:00-10:30
ALEJANDRO FÁBREGAS-TEJEDA
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (KU Leuven)
Ethospaces and the Comparative Study of Behavior

10:30-11:05
TOMMASO ZORZINI
Università degli Studi di Milano (UniMi)
Reciprocal causation in EES is still unidirectional and diachronic

11:05-11:40
CARLOS ESTEBAN-JIMÉNEZ
Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM)
The cognitive dimension of experiential niche construction: 
an epistemological problem?

11:40-11:55
Coffee Break

11:55-12:30
LUCIA C. NECO
Universidad de Murcia (UMU)
The Prospect of Plant Sociality

12:30-13:05
ADEX IZQUIERDO
Universitat de València (UV)
Offline information transmission:
A teleofunctional hybrid account for mnemonic episodic reference

13:05-13:40
MEGAN H. TODD
Sveučilište u Rijeci (Rijeka)
Communicating Science Under Uncertainty:
Hedging and Epistemic Function in Animal Cognition Research

13:40-14:15
MIGUEL GRAMAGE
Universitat de València (UV)
Specification in Use: A Modal Account of Ecological Information

14:15-16:00
Lunch

16:00-17:30
JOSÉ ANTONIO PÉREZ-ESCOBAR
Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED)
Mathematical explanations in biology: A Neo-Aristotelian proposal

17:30-18:00
Closure
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Losner Briones @losnerbriones.com · 06/04/2025
Hace unos días @lanadanadea.bsky.social resumía la obra de Platón en una imagen. Pero a mí siempre me ha hecho gracia verlo así y por eso lo tengo impreso y colgado en mi despacho. 😌
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Losner Briones @losnerbriones.com · 27/03/2025
The program for the VI SLMFCE Graduate Conference (@slmfce.bsky.social) is out! I'll be giving a talk titled 'Beyond Randomized Controlled Trials: Expanding Evidential Horizons in Distributive Policy Evaluation'. See you in late June!
Program for the VI SLMFCE Graduate Conference.
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Losner Briones @losnerbriones.com · 12/03/2025
First talk at the METIS Seminar (@metisuned.bsky.social) yesterday! Thanks everyone for the discussion, the jokes, and the helpful feedback. Shoutout to my colleague Paloma Atencia-Linares for the pics!
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