Harriet Fagerberg
- Assistant Professor (Hatton Lecturer) in Philosophy of Life Sciences
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Before joining the University of Cambridge, I was a Fellow in the Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method at the London School of Economics and Political Science, and a Postdoctoral Fellow at Hunter College and The Graduate Center, City University of New York. In 2022, I completed a PhD in philosophy jointly awarded by King’s College London and Humboldt-Unversität zu Berlin. In Berlin, I spent most of my time at the Berlin School of Mind and Brain and, at King’s, I was affiliated with the Sowerby Philosophy & Medicine Project. My primary research interest is biological function, its relation to pathology and disease, and its manifestation in the brain.
Publications
Selected publications
A Domino Theory of Disease.
Fagerberg, H.
Proper Functions are Proximal Functions. (Forthcoming)
Journal article
British Journal for the Philosophy of Science.
Fagerberg, H.
What We Argue about when We Argue about Disease
Journal article
21 December 2023
Philosophy of Medicine
Fagerberg, H.
Medical Disorder Is Not a Black Box Essentialist Concept
Journal article
31 July 2023
Philosophy of Medicine
Fagerberg, H.
Brain dysfunction without function
Journal article
11 June 2023
Philosophical Psychology
Fagerberg, H.
Reactive natural kinds and varieties of dependence
7 December 2022
European Journal for Philosophy of Science
Fagerberg, H.
Against the generalised theory of function
Journal article
Biology and Philosophy
Fagerberg, H.
Why Mental Disorders are not Like Software Bugs
Journal article
11 February 2022
Philosophy of Science, Cambridge University Press
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