Upcoming and recent

  • Reductionism and Emergence in the Light of AI: The Case of AlphaFold

    Workshop Emergence in Philosophy and Science

    18-19 SEPTEMBER 2025

    Cusano University

    Rome

  • Exploring Emergence in Biochemical Contexts

    Lecture at the Summer School Emergence in Philosophy and Science

    16 SEPTEMBER 2025

    Cusano University

    Rome (IT)

  • Self-assembled biochemical structure

    Symposium “Self-Assembly and Self-Organization in Living Systems” of ERC Project Assembling Life

    EPSA 2025

    27-30 SEPTEMBER 2025

    Groninger

  • Revitalising functions - idealised functionality in nutrition science

    Symposium “Functions across contexts”

    British Society for Philosophy of Science (BSPS)

    15-17 JULY 2025

    Glasgow (UK)

  • Philosophical issues of pregnancy and fertility

    Guest Lecture for University of Pavia and GeneraLife

    11 JULY 2025

    University of Pavia (Italy)

  • Healthy Diets: on Micronutrients’ Functionality

    Poster session

    International Philosophy of Medicine Roundtable

    2-3 JUNE 2025

    KCL, London (UK)

  • Alpha-fold and biochemical functionality

    Turing Tables

    London AI & Humanity Project

    27 MAY 2025

    London (UK)

Selected Talks

(see CV for full list)

Comparing structures: exploring biochemical structure

Centre for Philosophy and the Sciences Lunch Time Forum

17 MARCH 2025

Oslo (Norway)

Vitamins and investigative kinds

Philosophy of Science Association Conference

14-17 NOVEMBER 2024

New Orleans (USA)

Vitamins as Investigative Kinds

International Workshop on the Metaphysics of Chemistry

22-24 JULY 2024

Université Catholique de Louvain (Belgium)

Shape is everything: proteins’ function

Symposium “Structure and classification at the molecular scale”

BSPS 2024 Conference

17-19 JULY 2024

University of York (UK)

Functions and complexity in biochemistry and molecular biology

Guest Lecture for PhD Seminar in Medicine and Bioscience

18 FEBRUARY 2025

Campus BioMedico

Roma (Italy)

On functions for self-assembled entities

Metaphysics of Science Workshop

Organised by Vanessa Seifert and Giacomo Giannini

23-24 SEPTEMBER 2024

Athens (Greece)

Philosophical perspectives on pregnancy

Symposium “Talking Infertility” organised by University of Pavia and GeneraLife

21 JUNE 2024

University of Pavia (Italy)

An exploration of biochemical structure

Centre for Philosophy and the Sciences Lunch Time Forum

9 DECEMBER 2024

Oslo (Norway)

Functions in self-assembly: exploring functions in protein folding

ERC Project AssemblingLife Kick-off Workshop

10-11 JUNE 2024

University of Oslo (Norway)

Organised events

(see CV, CPS Events, AssemblingLife Events and MetaScience Events for full list)

Cambridge-Oslo Workshop on Biological Functions

ERC AssemblingLife & Leverhume Trust Workshop

10-11 April 2025

Univeristy of Oslo (Norway)

ScaM Workshop: on scale and measurement in the sciences

ERC AssemblingLife & CPS Workshop

27-28 March 2025

Univeristy of Oslo (Norway)

CPS Gen 2.0 Workshop

Relaunch of the Centre for Philosophy and the Sciences

31 October - 1 November 2024

Univeristy of Oslo (Norway)

MetaScience Final Conference:

Where is Unity?

23-25 June 2023

Univeristy of Bristol (UK)

Multiple realisability across sciences

Joint ERC Workshop between MetaScience and The Possible Life Project

5 June 2023


Univeristy of Vienna (Austria)