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Fabian Hundertmark

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Philosopher in Valencia (Spain); works mainly on biological functions, dispositions, and (mental) health. https://fhundertmark.net/

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Fabian Hundertmark @fhundertmark.bsky.social · 23d

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

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Fabian Hundertmark @fhundertmark.bsky.social · 4d

I'm so sorry to hear that. 😢

Fabian Hundertmark @fhundertmark.bsky.social · 17d

Author's copy just arrived. What a beautiful book! 😍

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Valencia Philosophy Lab @vlc-lab.bsky.social · 23d

💥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

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Fabian Hundertmark @fhundertmark.bsky.social · 23d

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

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Fabian Hundertmark @fhundertmark.bsky.social · Sep 8

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

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Valencia Philosophy Lab @vlc-lab.bsky.social · Jul 11

🎓 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!

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Susanna Schellenberg @sschellenberg.bsky.social · Jul 23

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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Fabian Hundertmark @fhundertmark.bsky.social · Jul 16

I am delighted to present my new website (created by my brother Christian, many thanks to him): fhundertmark.net

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Adrian Kind @philpsy.bsky.social · Jul 11

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

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Karl Gustav Bergman @karlbergman.bsky.social · Jul 1

Happy to report that my paper "Teleosemantics and universal hybridity" has now been accepted for publication in Erkenntnis. Preprint below: philpapers.org/rec/BERTAU

Karl Gustav Bergman, Teleosemantics and universal hybridity - PhilPapers

According to Ruth Millikan, some representations are hybrid: they have both descriptive and directive content, both mind-to-world and world-to-mind direction of fit. Millikan calls them “pushmi-pullyu...

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Frédéric Bouchard @fbouchard.bsky.social · Jun 11

Je suis doyen,mais je suis surtout prof,d'où la grande satisfaction de voir paraître cet article avec ancien étudiant! Dussault,A.C.&Bouchard,F.,(2025)“Generalized Selected Effects Functions and Ecology”,Philosophy,Theory,and Practice in Biology 17(1): 4 journals.publishing.umich.edu/ptpbio/artic...

Generalized Selected Effects Functions and Ecology

Expanding upon the “classical” selected effects (SE) theory of function, Justin Garson’s generalized selected effects (GSE) theory states that functions may derive not just from natural selection, but...

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Thorsten Mense @mense.bsky.social · Jun 1

Zumindest hält Klöckner ihr Wahlversprechen

Screenshot Instagram-Post von Julia Klöckner:

Für das was ihr wollt, müsst ihr nicht die AfD wählen. Dafür gibt es eine demokratische Alternative: die CDU.

Screenshot von Spiegel Online:

Bundestagspräsidentin Klöckner droht Jette Nietzard mit Entzug des Hausausweises

Der polizeifeindliche Pullover der Grüne-Jugend-Chefin Jette Nietzard könnte ihr im Bundestag Ärger einbringen. Darauf weist Parlamentspräsidentin Julia Klöckner die Grünen in einem Brief hin. »Präventiv«, wie es heißt.

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Fabian Hundertmark @fhundertmark.bsky.social · May 29

Q&A with @jelliedsours.bsky.social, Lara Calabrese, @lalumera.bsky.social and @matthewbroome.bsky.social at the #INPP.

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Fabian Hundertmark @fhundertmark.bsky.social · May 29

@matthewbroome.bsky.social chairing at #INPP in Leibzig

Picture of Matthew Broome presenting:
On slides:
EPIC
Epistemic Injustice in Healthcare
I University of
N BRISTOL
UNIVERSITYOF BIRMINGHAM
The University of Nottingham

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Fabian Hundertmark @fhundertmark.bsky.social · May 28

Good luck with that. See you tomorrow!

Fabian Hundertmark @fhundertmark.bsky.social · May 19

Thanks a lot! :)

Fabian Hundertmark @fhundertmark.bsky.social · May 19

I'm happy and proud to be joining @vlc-lab.bsky.social in September! I'm even already on the website! vlclab.blogs.uv.es/senior-membe...

Screenshot of VLC Website with Photo of Fabian + the following text:

FABIAN HUNDERTMARK – Homepage

Fabian Hundertmark is a postdoctoral researcher in the AUSAD project at the University of Valencia. Before joining the VLC Lab, he worked in two research projects at Bielefeld University on teleosemantics and the metaphysics of biological dispositions. His research is situated at the intersection of the philosophy of mind, philosophy of psychiatry, philosophy of biology, and metaphysics. He is particularly interested in naturalistic theories of biological function, the metaphysics of dispositions and abilities, and the conceptual foundations of mental disorder. His work addresses questions about what mental disorders are, how biological norms are grounded, and how modal properties figure in scientific explanations. He is currently developing a naturalistic theory of abilities.

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Valencia Philosophy Lab @vlc-lab.bsky.social · Apr 29

🌞Good morning!

🐸The programme and abstracts for the Workshop on Animal Communication are now available at the following link:

🔗https://decrep.blogs.uv.es/workshop-animal-communication/

😀One retweet?

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Fabian Hundertmark @fhundertmark.bsky.social · Feb 28

Does this link help? www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

Some Proper Functions are Distal | The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science: Vol 0, No ja

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Die Linke im Bundestag @dielinkebt.de · Feb 28

Hier unser Starterpack mit allen Abgeordneten, die derzeit auf BlueSky sind! 🦋🚩

go.bsky.app/25ajniL

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Fabian Hundertmark @fhundertmark.bsky.social · Feb 28

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

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

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Sérgio Farias de Souza Filho @sergiosouza.bsky.social · Feb 7

The one and only Hilary Putnam on why he became earlier a commie and later a social-democrat

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Fabian Hundertmark @fhundertmark.bsky.social · Feb 6

Check out this new paper!

@moody-philosopher.bsky.social argues that low mood has a dual function, representing pessimistic expectations and motivating reduced engagement to minimize potential losses.

James Turner @moody-philosopher.bsky.social · Feb 6

Does low mood have representational content? If so, what does it represent? Find out in my new paper, recently accepted in Philosophy of Science. philarchive.org/rec/TURWLM

James Turner, What’s Low Mood All About? An Indicative-Imperative Account of Low Mood’s Content - PhilArchive

Does low mood have intentional content? If so, what is it? Philosophers have tried to answer both questions by appealing to low mood’s phenomenal character. However, appeals to phenomenology have not ...

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Fabian Hundertmark @fhundertmark.bsky.social · Feb 5

Check out this new paper:

@jroloff.bsky.social argues that Millikan’s relational, adapted, and derived proper functions are essential for explaining novel contents and ontogenetic traits, countering Garson and @davidpapineau.bsky.social’s criticisms.

doi.org/10.1007/s112...

The indispensability of relational, adapted, and derived proper functions - Synthese

Since the early debates on teleosemantics, there have been people objecting that teleosemantics cannot account for evolutionarily novel contents such as “democracy” (e.g., Peacocke in A Study of Conce...

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Ilir Isufi @ilirisufi.bsky.social · Jan 27

Maël Lemoine's Cambridge Element on "Philosophy of Physiology" is free to download for one month

Edouard Machery @edouardmachery.bsky.social · Jan 27

freed download www.cambridge.org/core/element...

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