Francesca Bellazzi

Last Wednesday I had the honour to receive the #ItalyMadeMe award for innovative research issued by the scientific committee of the Italian Embassy to Italian early career researchers in the UK. My prize was sponsored by Il Circolo London and I am grateful to all who supported me in this journey!

British Journal for the Philosophy of Science Volume 76, Issue 4 Table of Contents Editors' Choice Article: Semanticization Challenges the Episodic–Semantic Distinction By Sara Aronowitz Why the Weyl Tile Argument Is Wrong By Lu Chen Biochemical Functions By Francesca Bellazzi The Bohmian Approach to the Problems of Cosmological Quantum Fluctuations By Sheldon Goldstein, Ward Struyve, and Roderich Tumulka A Hybrid Theory of Induction By Adrià Segarra Bayesian Merging of Opinions and Algorithmic Randomness By Francesca Zaffora Blando Against Prohibition (or, When Using Ordinal Scales to Compare Groups Is OK) By Cristian Larroulet Philippi Are We in a Sixth Mass Extinction? The Challenges of Answering and Value of Asking By Federica Bocchi, Alisa Bokulich, Leticia Castillo Brache, Gloria Grand-Pierre, and Aja Watkins A Falsificationist Account of Artificial Neural Networks By Oliver Buchholz and Eric Raidl General-Purpose Institutional Decision-Making Heuristics: The Case of Decision-Making under Deep Uncertainty By David Thorstad The Typical Principle By Isaac Wilhelm

Santa has come early! New issue out now, full of festive treats for all the family. Biochemical functions and quantum fluctuations! Weyl tiles and ordinal scales! Mass extinctions, artificial neural networks and much more…Find it here:
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Workshop "Functionalism in Philosophy of the Sciences" - Department of Philosophy, Classics, History of Art and Ideas Functionalism is a tool that is useful across many areas of science, and in the philosophy of science. What can we learn from its use in these different areas?

So truly happy to be back in Oslo for this workshop on Functionalism, my very cup of tea! Presenting a work with Lorenzo Lorenzetti. www.hf.uio.no/ifikk/englis... #CPS @assemblinglife.bsky.social #FunMo

New paper accepted in Biology and Philosophy on proteins’ functions. “Shape is everything: on proteins’ functions” develops my account of biochemical functions with a focus on proteins. AMV on PhilPapers. Thanks to @assemblinglife.bsky.social and @leverhulme.ac.uk.

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The education I received in Italy has been a real foundation for the work I do today and I am proud that I can contribute to philosophical knowledge and higher education thanks to it. #ItalyMadeMe

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Very honoured to share that I got the prize “Italy Made Me 2025” given by the Italian Embassy to Italian early career researchers in the UK with my project FunMo. Thanks to il Circolo for sponsoring my award.
@leverhulme.ac.uk
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If you want to attend remotely feel free to get in touch as we will stream it on zoom!

FunMo_2025 - Durham University

FunMo Kick-off event “Perspectives on molecular functionality” is coming up this week with a great selection of talks! Thanks to @thebsps.bsky.social and @leverhulme.ac.uk for funding this event.

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I was in Rome for the Emergence in Philosophy&Science summer school and workshop. I gave an overview lecture on emergence in biochemical contexts and a new talk on #AlphaFold and the implications of using AI in science for reductionism.
Thanks to the organisers!
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Thank you!

If you are curious about vitamins or natural kinds in history of science check out my new paper: “What is it about vitamins? Vitamins as investigative kinds” in Philosophy of Science 🎉 www.cambridge.org/core/journal... @philscijournal.bsky.social @leverhulme.ac.uk @assemblinglife.bsky.social

Marcin Miłkowski in a very fancy university hall

That's me, delivering my keynote lecture during #EPSA25, introducing the idea of the functional atlas of theories. The conference was a blast! (Photo courtesy @bartoszradomski.bsky.social)

Thanks to everyone at #EPSA25 in Groningen. I talked during the AssemblingLife symposium, where we presented the results of the first year of the ERC Project AssemblingLife. Congrats to the organisers of this event for the fantastic experience! @assemblinglife.bsky.social @epsaphilsci.bsky.social

We had a great time at our symposium “Self-assembly and self-organisation in living systems” at #EPSA25. Here some pics from our talks from Gry Oftedal and @jietongx.bsky.social @sanderoest.bsky.social @frabellazzi.bsky.social and Bendik Hellenic-Aaby. 🦋 @epsaphilsci.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu

If you are in Porto for the #ISHPSSB, look out for our team presenting different works on self-assembly&self-organisation! Interesting talks from @sanderoest.bsky.social @jietongx.bsky.social and Bendik Hellem-Aaby 🦋 @erc.europa.eu @uio.no

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I had a terrific time at #BSPS25 and all the talks were amazing. I am grateful to my fellow symposium speakers in “Functions across scientific contexts”, where I presented on molecular functionality in nutrition. #FunMo 🧬 @leverhulme.ac.uk #philsky
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One of my favourite (now yearly) appointment is with the Master in Reproductive Technologies at #UniPv where I am lecturing today about infertility and pregnancy from a philosophical perspective. @leverhulme.ac.uk @durham-university.bsky.social

As every year, I am going to give a lecture on pregnancy at the master in reproductive technology at #UniPV. This year I would like to add a little bit about fertility and infertility as a disease - any reccomended literature? 📚 #philsky #philmedicine

You will find us at #BSPS, #ISHPSSB and #EPSA - ready to present all the work of the last year 🦋 #philsky #philbio #philscience (2/2)

We just concluded our second year project meeting in Copenhagen! It was a great opportunity to get feedback on our drafts and get to know a new project member (details soon). Ahead a summer of conferences and holidays (1/2) 🗣️⛵️ @erc.europa.eu #philsky

Today I presented a short talk on #AlphaFold and biochemical functionality at the Turing Tables of the London AI and Humanities Project at the Institute of Philosophy ~ learning so many things in this program! #philsky #philAI #FunMo🧬

Kicking off today with a super cool conference on responsable AI, program below ⤵️
#responsabileAI

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The Summer of AI The Institute of Philosophy welcome you to the Summer of AI, a three-part series of event from April to July 2025

First activity of #FunMo! Starting today my time as AI Fellow of the London AI and Humanity Project organised by the Institute of Philosophy and Google DeepMind. I will try to figure out what #AlphaFold can tell us about proteins and bio-functionality.
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It has three research strands: i) molecular functionality, ii) DNA and RNA functionality, iii) in-vitro and in-silico technologies for molecular functions 🤓 Get in touch if you want to collaborate or know more (2/2) #philsky

My Leverhulme Trust project #FunMo: functions at the molecular scale is officially up and running at the Department of Philosophy at Durham University 🧬 @durham-university.bsky.social @leverhulme.ac.uk #philsky #leverhulmetrust (1/2)

Fellow Italian philosophers of science, how do you navigate the clash between #EPSA and #SIFA this summer? Both of them are looking great but also exactly at the same time 😬 #philsky #philscience

The Metaphysics of Pregnancy Pregnancy is a one of the most complex phenomena of life and is essential to the life cycle of mammals. Pregnancy is also a crucial aspect of humans' life and experience. But what is pregnancy? This ...

The paper is also finally out here:
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Saying goodbye to Oslo for now, I had a fantastic time and will bring everything with me into my next adventure. Very grateful I will keep on collaborating with @assemblinglife.bsky.social as part of my Leverhulme project. The fjord will always be in my heart 💙🇳🇴 #philsky #lovenorway

Book details: Epistemic Justice in Mental Healthcare (Springer 2025)

Our little book is about learning how to listen to those who need our help so we avoid making their lives even harder. Happens to be about healthcare too but the message has wider applications link.springer.com/book/10.1007... #booksky #philsky #epistemicinjustice #openaccess

It also included my last talk at UiO as full time postdoc and I feel very grateful to have been part of this community this year 💙🦋 @assemblinglife.bsky.social @uio.no #philsky