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Cambridge Department of History and Philosophy of Science are now on Bluesky! 🔭📚 @hpscambridge.bsky.social

Poster with mechanical Brain-Heart-like structure as decoration and with the following text: 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 VLC Philosophi LAB a 8 GENERALITA STATAL DE NIVERSITA VALENCI

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.

Chloé de Canson, Diseases as Homeostatic Property Clusters - PhilPapers Several philosophers have recently drawn on property cluster accounts of natural kinds to argue that individual diseases form natural kinds. According to them, diseases have a super-explanatory proper...

My paper on disease has been accepted at Philosophy of Medicine!

I argue that diseases form homeostatic property clusters: their underlying pathomechanisms cause clustering in their symptomatology, biological signature, response to treatments, and prognosis

philpapers.org/rec/CANDAH

International Scholarship at The University of Cambridge International postgraduate scholarships at the University of Cambridge

US colleagues in #philsci #sts #histsci #histmed, please encourage your students to consider the Gates Cambridge Scholarships. Deadline for US residents is October 15th. They need to first apply for admission to the Department of HPS for MPhil or PhD (2026 entry) www.hps.cam.ac.uk/study/postgr...

‼️ Join #LSEPhilosophy!

We are hiring an Assistant Professor of #Philosophy with focus on #Sustainability

Application deadline: 3 November 2025

More information: jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...

#London #PartOfLSE #hiring #jobs

Letter of the day (in the Times)

Book cover for the Land is our community: Aldo Leopold‘s environmental ethic for the new millennium. Author is Roberta L Millstein.

For anyone who might be interested in teaching my book on Leopold's land ethic:

The Philosophers for Sustainability group has put together resources to use for teaching _The Land Is Our Community _. 1/n

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This week @universitypress.cambridge.org has granted free access to all titles in the collection of Cambridge Elements in the Philosophy of Biology, edited by Grant Ramsey. There are many options to choose from! Happy reading! 📕👇 www.cambridge.org/core/publica... #philsci #HPbio #evosky #ISHPSSB2025

Still time to submit at abstract for Climate, Emotion and Mental Health! August 14-15 at Cambridge HPS 🎓 Deadline this Friday @cambridgephilos.bsky.social @camneuro.bsky.social l
#philsci #philsky #psychology #psychiatry #philmed #cogsci #climate

Still time to submit at abstract for Climate, Emotion and Mental Health! August 14-15 at Cambridge HPS 🎓 Deadline this Friday @cambridgephilos.bsky.social @camneuro.bsky.social l
#philsci #philsky #psychology #psychiatry #philmed #cogsci #climate

thanks, I hadn't seen this book yet! I have lots of thoughts on this actually, let's chat one day :) (short answer, I don't think it is a counter-example per se, but I think it's real interesting nonetheless)

Free in August and looking for a way to do even more philosophy? 🤔 Juliette Vazard and I are organising a workshop on Climate, Emotion and Mental Health - deadline 4th of July! ✍️

Israel kills innocent Palestinians. Activists spray-paint a plane. Guess which the UK government calls terrorism | Sally Rooney If Palestine Action becomes a proscribed group, writing these words of support could become a serious offence. It’s vital we fight this alarming attack on free speech, says writer Sally Rooney

Israel kills innocent Palestinians. Activists spray-paint a plane. Guess which the UK government calls terrorism | Sally Rooney

Ah that might be tricky with the time difference, but in principle we are open to online presentations!

Check out this call for abstracts for a mid august workshop in Cambridge. The questions Harriet and Juliette are posing are so interesting and unusual #philsky #climate #mentalhealth #emotion

Free in August and looking for a way to do even more philosophy? 🤔 Juliette Vazard and I are organising a workshop on Climate, Emotion and Mental Health - deadline 4th of July! ✍️

My paper 'A Domino Theory of Disease' is out and available *open access* with Philosophy of Science! 🥳 @philscijournal.bsky.social www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Next year I will have two new colleagues. Ahmad Elabbar and Harriet Fagerberg are joining Cambridge HPS as Assistant Professors. What a huge honour and a privilege, congratulations to us all! Send us your postgrad applicants in all areas of #philsci #philmed, including ethics and politics of STEM.

Thanks Anna, delighted to be joining you!

Thanks for your world class co-organising @frabellazzi.bsky.social - this was so fun! ☺️ And also thanks to all our amazing speakers

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

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

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

Marc Artiga, Peter Schulte & Nir Fresco, Some Proper Functions are Distal - PhilPapers

Check out this paper that I completely agree with: @marcartiga.bsky.social, @peterschulte.bsky.social & Nir Fresco argue against @harrif.bsky.social and Justin Garson's thesis that proper functions must be proximal functions.

philpapers.org/rec/ARTSPF

any bets on which will be which?

Can you believe we once lived alongside at least four other species of humans? I'm writing a whole book about it and still find it bewildering.

Still time to submit an abstract for the Philosophy of Medicine Roundtable! 👇

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