Future Talks
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2026-08-24
Proper Functions as an Etiological Kind: Core and Modules
With Marc Artiga at the ECAP12 from 24 to 28 August 2026 in Madrid Proper functions are used to explain why some hearts malfunction, why some neural states misrepresent, and why certain psychological and physiological conditions are considered disorders. We treat the question „What is it for something to have a specific proper function?“ as…
Past Talks
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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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2026-05-26
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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2025-09-12
The Mind’s Blueprint – Mental Health, Design, and Rational Ability
2025-09 GAP.12 Pathways to Truth in Düsseldorf
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2025-05-29
The Mind’s Blueprint – Mental Health, Rational Ability, and Design
2025-05-29 26th INPP Conference in Leibzig
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2024-09-11
Mental Representation and Proper Function for Artificial Neural Networks
with James Turner Congress of the German Society for Philosophy, Münster
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2024-02-15
Revisiting dysfunction in disorders: Degrees, diversity, and distality
Templeton-Sowerby Joint Workshop: Function and Dysfunction in Medicine and Psychiatry, King’s College London
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2023-12-05
Mind and Function: On the Role of Selected Dispositions in the Philosophy of Mind and Psychiatry
1st Recife’s Virtual Conference on Philosophy of Mind, online
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2023-10-05
Biological Functions as Selected Dispositions
Millikanfest, University of Connecticut
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2023-08-29
Causal Bases in the Life Sciences
Inductive Metaphysics: Insights, Challenges and Prospects, Universität Düsseldorf
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2023-06-01
Mental Disorders – On psychological dispositions, individuation and the disorder role
Mental Disorders and Modal Properties, Berlin