Projects per year
Personal profile
Research interests
Francesca Bellazzi is a PhD student in the ERC MetaScience Project: the Metaphysical Unity of Science (n. 771509). She holds a BA in Philosophy from Università Cattolica of Milan (2017) and an MSc in Philosophy of Science from the LSE (2018).
Francesca is specialising in metaphysics, philosophy of science and philosophy of biology. She is currently investigating natural kinds at different levels in biology, in particular in genetics and cell biology. Her interests also involve Ancient and Medieval Philosophy, especially Aristotle and the Medieval problem of universals.
Francesca's research involves studying classical metaphysical categories, such as kinds, and laws in contemporary sciences, as reflected in her BA and MSc dissertations. The former regards a dispositional account of laws of nature and its application to biological laws (supervisors Prof. Giordani and Dr. De Florio). The latter is a proposal of Aristotelian essentialism in the definition of biological species (supervisor Dr. Birch).
Education/Academic qualification
London School of Economics and Political Science
Award Date: 1 Sep 2018
Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore
Award Date: 21 Jul 2017
Fingerprint
Network
Projects
- 1 Active
-
MetaScience: The Metaphysical Unity of Science
Tahko, T., Seifert, V. A., Friend, T. T., Kimpton-Nye, S., Bellazzi, F. & Franklin, A.
1/09/18 → 31/08/23
Project: Research
Research output
-
COVID-19 calls for virtue ethics
Bellazzi, F. & Boyneburgk, K. V., 7 Jul 2020, In: Journal of Law and the Biosciences. 7, 1Research output: Contribution to journal › Special issue (Academic Journal) › peer-review
Open Access -
Marvellous mysteries and the unity of science
Bellazzi, F., 19 Nov 2020Research output: Non-textual form › Web publication/site
Open Access
Activities
-
MetaScience-FraMEPhys Workshop #2
Tuomas Tahko (Organiser), Francesca Bellazzi (Speaker), Toby T Friend (Speaker) & Samuel Kimpton-Nye (Speaker)
18 Dec 2020Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in workshop, seminar, course
-
European Congress of Analytic Philosophy
Francesca Bellazzi (Participant)
6 Aug 2020Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in conference
-
Formal Ontology & Metaphysics of Science Workshop
Tuomas Tahko (Organiser), Francesca Bellazzi (Invited speaker), Samuel Kimpton-Nye (Invited speaker), Jani Hakkarainen (Invited speaker), Sanna Mattila (Invited speaker), Tuomas Tahko (Invited speaker), Markku Keinänen (Invited speaker), Naomi Thompson (Invited speaker) & Donnchadh O’Conaill (Invited speaker)
14 Feb 2020 → 15 Feb 2020Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in workshop, seminar, course