Fabian Hundertmark

📚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.

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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.

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...

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.

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

💥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

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

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-...

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

Great talk by @quillkukla.bsky.social on Healthism, Neurodiversity, and Respectability Politics
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🎓 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👇

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CFP for a special volume in Topoi on Capacities-First Philosophy. link.springer.com/collections/...

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

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!
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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...

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

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...

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.

Zumindest hält Klöckner ihr Wahlversprechen

Speakers sitting in front

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

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

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

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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.

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...

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🐸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/

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

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

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

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

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

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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@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...

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