Functions in Philosophy Network
Join our “Functions in Philosophy” reading group! Meeting the first Wednesday of the month on zoom at 15 BST.
Send me an email if you would like to join!
Upcoming and recent
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Vitamins as investigative kinds
International Workshop on the Metaphysics of Chemistry
22-24 JULY 2024
Université Catholique de Louvain (Belgium)
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Shape is everything: proteins' function
Symposium “Structure and classification at the molecular scale”
BSPS 2024 Conference
17-19 JULY 2024
University of York (UK)
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Human Right to Science: Truth and Epistemic Injustice
Early career Women Workshop on “Epistemic Injustice”
4th JULY 2024
University of Birmingham (UK)
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Philosophical perspectives on pregnancy
Symposium “Talking infertility” organised by University of Pavia and GeneraLife
21 JUNE 2024
Pavia (IT)
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Functions in self-assembly: exploring functions in protein folding
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New categories bring vitality: vitamins as investigative kinds
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TEDx Talk: "Less objects and more relations"
TEDx Royal Holloway University of London
27th January 2024
London, Egham (UK)
INVITED
Selected Talks
(see CV for full list)
Exploring new forms of reductionism in biochemistry
Philosophy of Chemistry Seminar Series
15 DECEMBER 2023 14.00-16.00
CEFISES UC Leuven (Belgium)
INVITED
Biochemical kinds: chemical or biological?
ISHPSSB Biannual Conference 2023
9–15 JULY 2023
University of Toronto and Western University
Alethic Rights and Epistemic Injustice
with Simone Picenni
Philosophy and Science for Human Rights: The Political Brain
3 MARCH 2023
University of Bristol (UK)
Invited
The biochemical as an interface
Interfaces workshop
10 JULY 2023 (online)
Campus BioMedico (IT)
INVITED
The Metaphyscis of Pregnancy
Invited Lecture
MSc GeneraLife Reproductive Biology and Biotechnology: from research to clinical practice
(InnovART).
9 JUNE 2023
University of Pavia (IT)
Kinds of Biochemical Kinds
MetaScience Kinds of Kinds Workshop
13 FEBRUARY 2023
University of Bristol (UK)
Invited
Emergence of Biochemical Functions
Symposium: “Explaining Emergentism: Towards a non-reductionist metaphysics of mind
and scientific phenomena”
18th Annual Conference of the
Italian Association of Cognitive Sciences
15- 17 DECEMBER 2022
Rovereto (IT)
Biochemical Kinds
Symposium: “Issues in the Philosophy of Chemistry”
7th Panhellenic Philosophy of Science Conference.
1-3 DECEMBER 2022
Athens (Greece)
Unity in biochemistry
MetaScience Final Event: Where is Unity?
23-25 JUNE 2023
Univeristy of Bristol (UK)
Multiple Realisability in Biochemistry
Joint workshop “Multiple realisable multiple realisability”
ERC The Possible Life & ERC Metascience
2 JUNE 2023
University of Vienna
INVITED
Super(-proper) Powers of Biochemical Kinds
Society for Metaphysics of Science Conference 2023
6-8 SEPTEMBER 2022
Bristol (UK)
Organised events
(see CV and MetaScience Events for full list)
Multiple realisability across sciences
Joint ERC Workshop between MetaScience and The Possible Life Project
5 June 2023
Univeristy of Vienna (Austria)
ERC MetaScience event: a workshop on the philosophy of kinds
13 February 2023
University of Bristol (UK)
Realisation and composition across the sciences
ERC MetaScience event
15-17 June 2021
University of Bristol (UK)