Fabian Hundertmark
@fhundertmark.bsky.social
I am a philosopher in Valencia, Spain, researching the nature and metaphysical basis of proper functions and modal properties, as well as how these can be incorporated into scientific and philosophical explanations. https://fhundertmark.net/
The #WorkshopOnFunctionsandDysfunctions in Medicine and Psychiatry was a huge success. I am so grateful to all the participants, co-organizers, supporters, and, of course the @vlc-lab.bsky.social. (Photo by HF: @hsherl.bsky.social, me, Jerome Wakefield, @marcartiga.bsky.social & @harrif.bsky.social)
🚨 This week!! «Workshop: Functions and Dysfunctions in Medicine and Psychiatry». 📅 June 11-12, 2026 🏛️ Faculty of Philosophy and Education Sciences (Sala de Juntas, Salón de Grados). 🔗More info at: vlclab.blogs.uv.es/event/worksh...
🎯 Fabian Hundertmark (University of Valencia): Four Questions about Dysfunction in Medicine and Psychiatry. #WorkshopOnFunctionsandDysfunctions
New paper out! 🎉 “What Health Is: The Blueprint View” is now out in Philosophy of Medicine. In this paper I develop a hybrid theory of health, according to which an organism is completely healthy iff it has the abilities it would have in its design state. philmed.pitt.edu/philmed/arti...
📚New publication! We are pleased to announce the publication of "What Health Is: The Blueprint View", by Fabian Hundertmark @fhundertmark.bsky.social in Philosophy of Medicine. 🔗https://philmed.pitt.edu/philmed/article/view/260 Please share! 🔁
Call for papers (CfP) for a special issue of Biology & Philosophy on 'Minimal cognition'! Edited by my esteemed @vlc-lab.bsky.social colleagues Marc Artiga (@marcartiga.bsky.social) and Anastasia Garbayo. link.springer.com/collections/...
Minimal cognition
Description of the collection: Research on minimal cognition seeks to identify the minimal organizational, functional, or normative conditions under which ...
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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.
Another special issue on representation in cognitive science has come out (this time in THEORIA): ojs.ehu.eus/index.php/TH...
Vol. 40 No. 3 (2025): Representations in cognitive science | THEORIA. An International Journal for Theory, History and Foundations of Science
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I am thrilled to announce a brand new call for papers (CfP) for a workshop on 'Mental Disorder and Responsiveness to Reasons'! The workshop is scheduled to take place on 18 and 19 February next year at the @vlc-lab.bsky.social. The deadline for abstract submissions is 10 June.
Mental Disorder and Responsiveness to Reasons (2027-02-18)
Mental Disorder and Responsiveness to Reasons February 18th and 19th 2027 Universitat de Valencia, Valencia (Spain) In recent years, there has been growing interest in understanding mental disorder...
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New paper out! 🎉 “Swampman goes to the doctor” (with @moody-philosopher.bsky.social) is now out in Mefisto. Yes, this is an actual paper title. And yes, the question is: can a creature without a past be physically or mentally ill? philarchive.org/rec/TURSGT
📚New publication! 👉We are pleased to announce the publication of 'Autism Through the Notion of a Form of Life: A Critical Review', by Virginia Ballesteros, in Philosophical Psychology. 🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 🙃 One retweet?
New paper out! 🎉 “Moving Past Ahistorical Theories of Function and Malfunctioning” (with @moody-philosopher.bsky.social) is now in Biology & Philosophy. doi.org/10.1007/s105...
You come to Britain as a refugee, fleeing persecution & death, you fall in love, get married, have children, or start a business, buy a house, etc. 19 years later, the Home Office tells you the conflict in your country is over, go home, we’re deporting you. That’s the reality of Labour’s policy.
PhD Job Advertisement: The Department of Philosophy at the University of Rijeka (Croatia) invites applications for a Research Assistant position (PhD track) within project TIPPS, for six years, circa €1400 net per month euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/378085
Research Assistant
Research Assistant, for a fixed term of 6 years, full-time, employed through the Croatian Science Foundation programme “Project for Career Development of Young Researchers – Training of New Doctors of...
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Author's copy just arrived. What a beautiful book! 😍
💥Fabian Hundertmark just joined the Valencia Philosophy Lab as a postdoctoral researcher in the AUSAD project at the University of Valencia. 🎉Welcome, Fabian! 🔗https://philpeople.org/profiles/fabian-hundertmark
Our open access chapter “Causal Bases of Potentialities in the Life Sciences” (with María Ferreira Ruiz, Marie I. Kaiser & @javiersuarez.bsky.social) is now published in Inductive Metaphysics (Routledge, 2025). Read it here: www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/oa-...
Causal Bases of Potentialities in the Life Sciences | 21 | Extrinsical
Potentialities are properties that can manifest. Many potentialities are instantiated in virtue of having causal bases that are possible causes for their
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Great talk by @quillkukla.bsky.social on Healthism, Neurodiversity, and Respectability Politics #gap.12
🎓 The 2024–25 academic year has been a period of growth and consolidation for the VlC Philosophy LAB. Here's an overview of the key highlights of our academic activity and relevant information👇 🙃A RT is always appreciated!
CFP for a special volume in Topoi on Capacities-First Philosophy. link.springer.com/collections/...
Capacities-first Philosophy
Paper submissions are invited for the special issue/collection of Topoi entitled: CAPACITIES-FIRST PHILOSOPHY. This special issue aims to analyze various ...
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I am delighted to present my new website (created by my brother Christian, many thanks to him): fhundertmark.net
The Diamond OAJ ournal @phimisci.bsky.social received metrics for the first time. Sure metrics are not the whole story, but its amazing to see them directly behind Philosophy of Science, and ahead of Phenomenology and the Cognitive Science SJR Value! Lets keep pushing OA Philosophy! #philsky
Happy to report that my paper "Teleosemantics and universal hybridity" has now been accepted for publication in Erkenntnis. Preprint below: philpapers.org/rec/BERTAU
Karl Gustav Bergman, Teleosemantics and universal hybridity - PhilPapers
According to Ruth Millikan, some representations are hybrid: they have both descriptive and directive content, both mind-to-world and world-to-mind direction of fit. Millikan calls them “pushmi-pullyu...
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Je suis doyen,mais je suis surtout prof,d'où la grande satisfaction de voir paraître cet article avec ancien étudiant! Dussault,A.C.&Bouchard,F.,(2025)“Generalized Selected Effects Functions and Ecology”,Philosophy,Theory,and Practice in Biology 17(1): 4 journals.publishing.umich.edu/ptpbio/artic...
Generalized Selected Effects Functions and Ecology
Expanding upon the “classical” selected effects (SE) theory of function, Justin Garson’s generalized selected effects (GSE) theory states that functions may derive not just from natural selection, but...
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Q&A with @jelliedsours.bsky.social, Lara Calabrese, @lalumera.bsky.social and @matthewbroome.bsky.social at the #INPP.
