#1023 Francesca Bellazzi: Biochemical Kinds and Functions, Genes, and Virtue Ethics
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Hello, everyone. Welcome to a new episode of The Decenter. I'm your host, as always, Ricard Lopes, and today I'm joined by Dr. Francesca Belazzi. She is post structural researcher in the ERC project assembling life. At the Center for Philosophy and the Sciences in the Department of Philosophy, Classics, History, Art and Ideas at the University of Oslo. She is interested basically in the complexity of the interactions between different entities, and in particular, she is fascinated by the interface between chemistry. and biology, and today we're going to talk a little bit about philosophy of science with the focus on biochemistry, and we're going to discuss what are functions, what are kinds, specifically biochemical functions and kinds. Gins as well and some other related topics. So Doctor Belazzi, welcome to the show. It's a huge pleasure to have you. Thank you. Thank you for inviting me. It's a huge pleasure for me to
Uh be part of this show. Thank you. So let's start perhaps with functions. I mean uh I for I would like first to ask you more generally in the context of science and philosophy of science. What power function? Yes.
Now I let's An excellent question. And I would say that like in a nutshell, so if we try to bring together all the different accounts of functions, functions are special causal contributions. Which can give us like Information s about the identity, the history.
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