About Me
I am a postdoctoral researcher in the AUSAD project at the University of Valencia. Before joining the VLC Lab, I worked on two research projects in the Philosophy Department of Bielefeld University that focused on teleosemantics and the metaphysics of biological dispositions.
My research lies at the intersection of the philosophy of mind, philosophy of psychiatry, philosophy of biology, and metaphysics.
In my work, I examine the nature and metaphysical basis of proper functions and modal properties.
I also explore how these can be incorporated into the sciences and philosophical explanations of phenomena such as representation, physical health, mental health and knowledge.
Upcoming
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2026-05-26
Etiological Service Functions for Teleosemantics
Representation and Affect in Cognitive Science, Universitat de Barcelona Teleosemantic theories aim to naturalise representational status and content by grounding them in the proper functions of components of cognitive systems. Yet teleosemantics inherits a substantive open question: which notion of proper function can do this grounding work across biological and artificial cases, while accommodating malfunction,…
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2026-05-29
In Defense of Realism about Self–Illness Ambiguity
2026 Annual Meeting of the Association for the Advancement of Philosophy and Psychiatry (AAPP), online Self-illness ambiguity (SIA) refers to the difficulty of distinguishing „who I am“ from „what my disorder does,“ as expressed in statements such as „It wasn’t me; it was the illness.“ Early descriptions of this phenomenon in illness narratives (Karp 1994)…
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2026-06-11
Functions and Dysfunctions in Medicine and Psychiatry
11 June, 2026 – 12 June, 2026 This two-day workshop brings together philosophers who work on naturalistic accounts of function and dysfunction, especially biological and etiological approaches, to explore how these accounts affect the nature of health and disorder in psychiatry and somatic medicine. A central aim is to clarify how function-talk can illuminate contested…