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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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Author's copy just arrived. What a beautiful book! 😍
September 22, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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Great talk by @quillkukla.bsky.social on Healthism, Neurodiversity, and Respectability Politics
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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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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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Q&A with @jelliedsours.bsky.social, Lara Calabrese, @lalumera.bsky.social and @matthewbroome.bsky.social at the #INPP.
Speakers sitting in front
May 29, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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@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
May 29, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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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.
May 19, 2025 at 8:22 AM
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New publication in the Australasian Journal of Philosophy: „What are Causal Bases of Dispositions?“ with María Ferreira Ruiz.

www.tandfonline.com/eprint/CEW4S...
November 15, 2024 at 7:51 AM
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We are delighted to announce our workshop "Philosophy of Psychiatry," which will take place on May 28th and 29th (at Bielefeld University and via Zoom). More infos here: www.uni-bielefeld.de/fakultaeten/...
Poster Content: Universität Bielefeld, May 28 and 29, 2024 Bielefeld Workshop on Philosophy of Psychiatry 2024 Speakers: Florence Adams Cambridge Sanja Dembic Belin Cornelia Elke Bielefeld Sascha Fink Erlangen Anna Hagemann Bielefeld Jonas Hartmann Bielefeld Fabian Hundertmark Beleteld David Lambert Bielefeld Roberta Locatelli rubingen Lara Keuck Bielefeld Vladimir Markovic Hannover Daniel Montero Hannover Caroline Stankozi Bochum James Turner Shetteld Organized by Fabian Hundertmark (Bielefeld) David Lambert (Bielefeld) Daniel Montero (Hannover)
May 15, 2024 at 8:12 AM
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And here is my humble contribution to the recently published book symposium on the wonderful book "Are Mental Disorders Brain Disorders?" by @annelijefferson.bsky.social: www.tandfonline.com/eprint/P3G9V...
Partial realization and biological normality: Jefferson’s account of brain dysfunction reinterpreted Fabian Hundertmark In her book “Are Mental Disorders Brain Disorders?” (2022), Anneli Jefferson proposes that brain processes that always realize mental dysfunctions are brain dysfunctions. This paper explores possible interpretations of two underdeveloped aspects of this thesis. First, it argues that “realization” should be interpreted as partial rather than full realization. Second, it argues that the “always” should only quantify over biologically normal situations. Taken together, these changes can account for the fact that some psychological dysfunctions are partially realized by functional mechanisms, for the existence of psychological dysfunctions due to mismatches rather than brain dysfunctions, and for the fact that brain dysfunctions do not cease to be brain dysfunctions just because they can be compensated.
March 27, 2024 at 10:49 AM
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New publication in Biology & Philosophy: „Biological functions and dysfunctions: a selected dispositions approach“ with Marlene van den Bos 🥳

Open Access:
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Abstract Justin Garson has recently argued that proper functions are proximal activities of traits selected by phylogenetic or ontogenetic selection processes, and that traits are dysfunctional only if they cannot perform their proper functions for constitutional reasons. We partially agree with Garson, but reject the view that functions are proximal activities, as well as his account of dysfunctions. Instead, we propose our own theory that biological functions are selected dispositions and that a trait is dysfunctional in virtue of not having the dispositions for which it was selected. This account can explain both defects (or dysfunctions in Garson’s sense) and dysfunctions due to environmental factors. Moreover, it offers a neat way to explain the graduality of dysfunction.
March 16, 2024 at 6:36 PM
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The article by my esteemed collaborator James Turner entitled "Bad Feelings, Best Explanations: In Defense of the Propitiousness Theory of the Low Mood System" has been published in Erkenntnis.

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There are three main accounts of the proper function of the low mood system (LMS): the social risk theory, the disease theory, and the propitiousness theory. Adjudicat- ing between these accounts has proven difficult, as there is little agreement in the literature about what a theory of the LMS’s proper function is supposed to explain. In this article, drawing upon influential work on the evolution of other affective sys- tems, such as the disgust system and the fear system, I argue that a theory of the proper function of the low mood system should: (i) account for the reliable, distal causes and effects of the system’s activation, and (ii) explain how having a system that performed such a function increased fitness in ancestral environments. On this basis, I show that the proper function of the low mood system is to limit resource expenditure in relatively unpropitious circumstances, exactly as hypothesised by the propitiousness theory.
January 25, 2024 at 9:18 AM
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I will give a talk entitled „Revisiting dysfunction in disorders: degrees, diversity, and distality“ at the workshop „Function and Dysfunction in Medicine and Psychiatry“, February 20-21, 2024. In London and online.

Registration and program can be found here:
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January 2, 2024 at 8:57 PM
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I am very much looking forward to this workshop next February! Organized by Justin Garson, Harriet Fagerberg, Elselijn Kingma, @davidpapineau.bsky.social and Rivkah Hatchwell

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Tuesday, 20-21 February 2024 Templeton-Sowerby Joint Workshop: Function and Dysfunction in Medicine and Interdisciplinary Workshop for researchers working at the intersection of Philosophy and Medicine By Sowerby Philosophy & Medicine Project, King's College London
December 18, 2023 at 9:46 AM