{"id":14143,"date":"2025-09-09T09:33:02","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T09:33:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.uned.es\/metis\/?page_id=14143"},"modified":"2025-09-09T09:38:26","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T09:38:26","slug":"14143-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uned.es\/metis\/14143-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Aida Roige"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Aida Roige: Special science kinds from a mechanistic standpoint<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tuesday December 9 2025 @11:30 (CET)<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/place\/UNED+-+Humanidades\/@40.4366067,-3.7379162,17z\/data=!3m2!4b1!5s0xd4228238189d7b7:0x62044c79ae77dfac!4m6!3m5!1s0xd42295f507d8465:0xc8bff2c2c262c868!8m2!3d40.4366067!4d-3.7353359!16s%2Fg%2F11d_d4qny9?entry=ttu\">Sala B, Edificio de Humanidades, UNED<\/a>&nbsp;&amp;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uned.es\/metis\/contact\/\">online<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Abstract<\/em><br>Natural kinds have key roles in laws of nature and scientific explanation. But what about the special science kinds of e.g. biology,&nbsp;the social sciences, or psychology? I will provide a novel account of mechanistic entity-types or kinds (as opposed to tokens) that is based on (and is compatible with) Machamer, Darden and Craver\u2019s (2000) account of mechanisms. The account provided makes sense of distinctive properties of special sciences kinds\u2019, including multiple realizability, unsuitability for strict natural laws, and explanatory power \u2014in a way that does not depend on supposing different levels of reality, or supposing that all special sciences kinds are natural. In particular, I will defend that special science kinds correspond to working entity-types which properties make them play the activity-enabling, robustness and individuating roles, each of which I will discuss in detail.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Bio<\/em><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aidaroige.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Aida Roige<\/a> is a postdoc\u00a0(APOSTD program &#8211; Generalitat Valenciana &amp; the European Social Fund) at\u00a0VLC Philosophy Lab, at the\u00a0Universitat de Valencia.\u00a0She has a Ph.D.\u00a0in\u00a0Philosophy\u00a0from\u00a0the\u00a0University of Maryland, where she worked mainly with\u00a0Peter Carruthers\u00a0and\u00a0Lindley Darden.\u00a0Her\u00a0research addresses questions about\u00a0types and kinds in\u00a0the cognitive sciences, a topic that intersects with ongoing interests in philosophy of mind, science\u00a0and\u00a0biology (specially mechanistic explanation).\u00a0She was a member of the medical ethics committee at the hospital Capital Region Medical Center (USA),\u00a0has been a Fulbright and \u201cla Caixa\u201d scholar, a senior member of LOGOS (University of Barcelona), and member of a number of research projects in Canada and Spain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aida Roige: Special science kinds from a mechanistic standpoint Tuesday December 9 2025 @11:30 (CET)Sala B, Edificio de Humanidades, UNED&nbsp;&amp;&nbsp;online AbstractNatural kinds have key roles in laws of nature and scientific explanation. But what about the special science kinds of e.g. biology,&nbsp;the social sciences, or psychology? I will provide a novel account of mechanistic entity-types [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7949,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-14143","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uned.es\/metis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uned.es\/metis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uned.es\/metis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uned.es\/metis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7949"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uned.es\/metis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14143"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uned.es\/metis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14159,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uned.es\/metis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14143\/revisions\/14159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uned.es\/metis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}