Francesca

Bellazzi

Philosophy and Metaphysics of Science

Philosophy of biochemistry and other things

Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellow with Project FunMo, Functions at the Molecular Scale

Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, Durham University

Researcher in the ERC project AssemblingLife in Department of Philosophy, Classics, History, Art and Ideas at the University of Oslo

Honorary Research Fellow in Philosophy, Department of Science and Technology, UCL

Honorary Visiting Fellow in Philosophy, Department of Philosophy, University of Bristol

Writer for @Jargonium and @Chemistry World

francesca.bellazzi@durham.ac.uk

bellazzi.francesca.ac@gmail.com

francesca.bellazzi@ifikk.uio.no

francesca.bellazzi@bristol.ac.uk

ABOUT

I am interested in the complexity of the interactions between different entities. In particular, I am fascinated by the interface between chemistry and biology.

I have also several side projects that consider the ethical aspects of science, in particular focusing on virtue ethics and epistemic injustice.

“I have the feeling or the intuition (which is what it is and nothing more) that the world will not be something like a dappled world of independent and various entities nor only a net of fundamental relations. The things that populate it are plenty, rich and surprising, and they are what they are when they are in the relations that allow them to be what they are. These relations constitute a fundamental unity that is a precondition for the very being of every single thing: a uni ted, interconnected world that gives rise to the special and unique nature of everything.”

(Parting thoughts from Biochemical Kinds and the Unity of Science)