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Fabian Hundertmark
@fhundertmark.bsky.social
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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/
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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)
June 13, 2026 at 8:56 AM
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📣 The XIV PBCS (Philosophy of Biology and Cognitive Sciences) Workshop is next week!!! #philbio #cogsci #hps
🗓️ 18-19 June 2026, at UNED (Madrid). Don't miss it!
ℹ️ More info: sites.google.com/view/xivpbcs
#pbcs #xivpbcs #14pbcs
Poster for the XIV PBCS Workshop Schedule for the XIV PBCS Workshop
June 11, 2026 at 1:30 PM
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🚨 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...
June 8, 2026 at 2:16 PM
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🎯 Fabian Hundertmark (University of Valencia): Four Questions about Dysfunction in Medicine and Psychiatry.

#WorkshopOnFunctionsandDysfunctions
June 11, 2026 at 1:45 PM
fhundertmark.bsky.social
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...
Blueprint graphic of human Body with the following text: What Health Is: The Blueprint View FABIAN HUNDERTMARK ABILITIES What degree of which abilities is required for complete health? FULL FUNCTIONALITY Traits with etiological functions are fully functional. DESIGN STATE The abilities it would have in its design state. NATURALISTIC DISTINCTION An objective, naturalistic distinction between health and non-health. ETIOLOGY OF TRAITS Design is determined by the etiology of traits. TREATMENT VS ENHANCEMENT Distinguishes treatment from enhancement. Now published open access in Philosophy of Medicine philmed.pitt.edu/philmed/article/view/260 Thesis: An organism is completely healthy if and only if it has the abilities it would have in its design state, where design is determined by the etiology of its traits.
April 29, 2026 at 10:14 AM
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📚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

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April 28, 2026 at 7:47 PM
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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.

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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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April 8, 2026 at 8:52 AM
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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.
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
March 27, 2026 at 1:27 AM
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📢 This Friday a new session of #VLCColloquium!

🔗More info: vlclab.blogs.uv.es/event/fintan...
March 24, 2026 at 12:40 PM
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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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March 24, 2026 at 11:05 AM
fhundertmark.bsky.social
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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March 24, 2026 at 11:24 AM
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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?

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Vintage-style comic-book cover in a retro 1970s/1980s aesthetic. A green, moss-covered swamp-creature sits in a doctor’s office while a female doctor with dark hair and glasses, wearing a white coat, holds a syringe and a clipboard and speaks to him. A yellow comic-style burst reads: “Can a creature without a past be ill?” The cover also includes the author names James Turner and Fabian Hundertmark and publication information for Mefisto, Vol. 9, No. 2 (2025). The overall tone is pulpy, playful, and philosophical.
March 6, 2026 at 10:19 PM
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📚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....

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January 7, 2026 at 9:21 AM
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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...
A “Change My Mind”–style meme photo. Two academics (Fabian Hundertmark and James Turner) sit at a small table outdoors (park setting) with laptops, books, and takeaway coffee cups. A large sign on the front of the table reads: “Malfunctions need history. Otherwise you fail Distinction and Futile Functioning challenge.” Below it: “Fabian Hundertmark & James Turner. Biology & Philosophy (2026). DOI: 10.1007/s10539-026-10010-2.” The photo is framed like a promotional announcement for a new paper.
February 3, 2026 at 9:38 AM
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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.
November 16, 2025 at 9:17 AM
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vlc-lab.bsky.social Valencia Philosophy Lab @vlc-lab.bsky.social · Oct 24
🚨Job Alert!

🏛️ One FPI PhD position open in our group.

🎓 Project: «Nuevas aproximaciones a la evidencia: desarrollos teóricos y prácticos».

📅Application period: from October 27 to November 7.

🔗More info at: www.uv.es/uvweb/servic...
CPI-25-541
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October 29, 2025 at 11:46 AM
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mjurjako.bsky.social
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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October 14, 2025 at 7:13 AM
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Author's copy just arrived. What a beautiful book! 😍
September 22, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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💥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
September 16, 2025 at 8:34 AM
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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
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/oa-edit/10.4324/9781003514404-21/causal-bases-potentialities-life-sciences-fabian-hundertmark-maría-ferreira-ruiz-marie-kaiser-javier-suárez?context=ubx&refId=575b46a7-46ca-438a-8512-f5ca1f71b93d
September 16, 2025 at 5:58 AM
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Great talk by @quillkukla.bsky.social on Healthism, Neurodiversity, and Respectability Politics
#gap.12
Audience looks at Quill Kukla giving a talk. Slides say: How "should" we attend? • Neurodivergent attention is stigmatized and disruptivo in productvity cuture. • But it aiso has episteric advantages: - Hypertocus can lead to deep research and dive, Hyperperceptvity can lead to sensory overshelm, but also to tho discovery of significant patters, creatity, aesthetic joy Special interests can lead to deep expertise, and the abilty to stick with a project past official need. - Focusing on the "wrong" things can help us see through ideology, question presuppostions. - Neurotypical culture suppresses some forms ol attention, such as to wty norms are in place. • Gardiner: We should pay attention to what objectively mattors. Her example: Pay attention to the art and not the bathrooms in the Louvre. • But non standard attention to bathrooms may give hidden insights into gender, class, architecturel • No single objectively correct form of attention, although there are norms of attention and we sometimes rightly want our attention to work differently. Attentional differences do not inherenty yield delusions or false bellefs and may provide valuable epistemic diversity. • Neurodivergent attention can be good for detective work, philosophy, art, science, design GAP: 12 PATHWAYS TO TRUTH
September 8, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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vlc-lab.bsky.social
🎓 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!
July 11, 2025 at 8:41 AM
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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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July 23, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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I am delighted to present my new website (created by my brother Christian, many thanks to him): fhundertmark.net
Start page of website
July 16, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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philpsy.bsky.social
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
July 11, 2025 at 8:36 AM