publications

Articles and book chapters

• Lalumera, E. (accepted for publication) Conceptual Engineering of Medical Concepts. In Manuel Gustavo Isaac & Kevin Scharp (eds.), New Perspectives on Conceptual Engineering.

• Lalumera, E. (2024), Perché la salute non è completo benessere, «FUTURE OF SCIENCE AND ETHICS», 2024, 8, pp. 1 - 10 

• Lalumera, E. (2024), An overview on trust and trustworthiness: individual and institutional dimensions, «PHILOSOPHICAL PSYCHOLOGY», 2024, 37, pp. 1 - 17

• Lalumera, E. (2023). ‘Are mental disorders brain disorders?’is a question of conceptual choice. Philosophical Psychology, 1-13.

• Lalumera, E. (2023) Moralization of Medicines. The case of Hydroxychloroquine. European Journal for Philosophy of Science 13 (3) 1-19

• Fanti, S., & Lalumera, E. (2023). Errors in imaging reading and reporting. European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, 50(6), 1546-1548.

• Fanti, S., & Lalumera, E. (2023). The epistemology of imaging procedures and reporting. European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, 50(5), 1275-1277.

• Amoretti, M.C.& Lalumera, E. (2023) Unveiling the interplay between evidence, values and cognitive biases. The case of the failure of the AstraZeneca Covid‐19 Vaccine. Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice. 

• Pomykala, K. L., Herrmann, K., Lalumera, E., & Fanti, S. (2023). Positive Prostate-specific Membrane Antigen Findings: How To Interpret Them. European Urology Oncology, 6(2), 113-115.

• Amoretti, M.C.& Lalumera, E (2022). Reviewing the reproduction number R in COVID-19 models. Philosophy of Medicine 1, 3, 1-16

• Fanti, S., Lalumera, E., Hicks, R. (2022) Facts and Myths about Stage Migration: Should the Will Rogers Phenomenon Ride off into Distance? European Urology Oncology

• Amoretti, M. C., & Lalumera, E. (2021). Introduction to the book Symposium on The Biopsychosocial Model of Health and Disease by guest editors. European Journal of Analytic Philosophy, 17(2), M1-8.

• Amoretti, M.C, Lalumera, E., Serpico, D. (2021) The DSM-5 Introduction of the Social (Pragmatic) Communication Disorder as a New Mental Disorder: A Philosophical Review. History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences 43(4), 1-31

• Amoretti, M. C., & Lalumera, E. (2021). Wherein is the concept of disease normative? From weak normativity to value-conscious naturalism. Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy, 1-14.

• Amoretti, M. C & Lalumera, E. The Concept of Disease in the Time of COVID-19. Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics (2021) https://doi.org/10.1007/s11017-021-09540-5

• Amoretti, M. C., & Lalumera, E. (2021). COVID-19 as the underlying cause of death: disentangling facts and values. History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences, 43(1), 1-4.

• Amoretti, M.C, Lalumera, E., Non-epistemic factors in epidemiological models. The case of mortality data, «MEFISTO», 2021, 5, pp. 65 - 79 

• Amoretti, M.C. & Lalumera. E. (2020) COVID -19 come causa di morte: una nozione tra fatti e valori, Questione giustizia, 2, 61-66

• Melloni, E., Benedetti, F., Vai, B., & Lalumera, E. (2020). Not understanding others. The RdoC approach to Theory of mind and empathy deficits inSchizophrenia, Borderline Personality Disorder and Mood Disorders. PHENOMENOLOGY AND MIND, 18, 162-181.

• Fanti, S., Oyen, W., & Lalumera, E. (2019). Consensus Procedures in Oncological Imaging: The Case of Prostate Cancer. Cancers, 11 ( 11), 1788.

• Lalumera, E., Fanti, S., & Boniolo, G. (2019). Reliability of molecular imaging diagnostics. Synthese, 1-17.

• Amoretti, M. C., & Lalumera, E. (2019). Harm should not be a necessary criterion for mental disorder: some reflections on the DSM-5 definition of mental disorder. Theoretical medicine and bioethics, 1-17.

• Lalumera, E. (2019) Il problema della classificazione dei disturbi mentali. Chapter 4 in R. Guerini e M. Marraffa (a cura di), Psicopatologia e scienze della mente. Roma: Carocci. 

• Gonzalez, S., Guedj, E., Fanti, S., Lalumera, E., Le Coz, P., & Taïeb, D. (2018). Delivering PET imaging results to cancer patients: steps for handling ethical issues. European journal of nuclear medicine and molecular imaging, 45 (12), 2240-2241.

• Lalumera, E. (2018)  Trust in health care and vaccine hesitancy.  Rivista di estetica http://journals.openedition.org/estetica/3553 ; DOI : 10.4000/estetica.355

• Amoretti, M. C., & Lalumera, E. (2018). Il criterio del “danno” nella definizione di disturbo mentale del DSM. Alcune riflessioni epistemologiche. Rivista internazionale di Filosofia e Psicologia, 9(2), 139-150.

• Lalumera, E. (2018) Resistenza alla vaccinazione: il ruolo della fiducia e dei valori. Notizie di Politeia XXXIV, 30, 19-28

• Amoretti, M.C. & Lalumera, E.  A Potential Tension in DMS-5: The General Definition of Mental Disorder vs. Some Specific Diagnostic Criteria. Journal of Medicine and Philosophy, 1-24

• Lalumera, E. (2018) Applicare la filosofia del linguaggio alla psichiatria attraverso la filosofia del diritto: Hare e il DSM-5. Diritto e Questioni Pubbliche 1, 2018, 313-321

• Lalumera. E., Amoretti, M.C. (2018) Psichiatria e neuroscienza cognitiva: la proposta di Dominic Murphy. Sistemi Intelligenti 1, 141-164.

• Lalumera, E. (2018) Concetti e categorizzazione dei disturbi mentali. Come la psicologia cognitiva può aiutare la psichiatria. In Cruciani, M. e Gagliardi, F. e Velardi, A. (a cura di) Concetti e processi di categorizzazione. Roma: Apogeo.

• Lalumera, E. (2018) Filosofia della psichiatria, Aphex 2, 2018, 1-22.

• Lalumera, E. (2018). Reasons and Causes in Psychiatry: Ideas from Donald Davidson’s Work. In Eva Picardi on Language, Analysis and History (pp. 281-296). Palgrave Macmillan, Cham.

• Lalumera, E.  (2018) Understanding schizophrenia through Wittgenstein: empathy, explanation, and philosophical clarification, in Schizophrenia and Common Sense, Hipólito, I., Gonçalves, J., Pereira, J. (eds.). SpringerNature, Mind-Brain Studies,139-153

• Lalumera, E. (2017)  Perché non dovremmo cercare una definizione di "disturbo mentale". Rivista Italiana di Filosofia del Linguaggio 2, 143-60

• Lalumera, E., Fanti, S. (2017) Randomized controlled trials for diagnostic imaging: conceptual and practical problems. Topoi 2, 1-6

• Lalumera, E. (2016) Saving the DSM-5? Descriptive conceptions and theoretical concepts of mental disorders. Medicina & Storia, 9-10, 109-128.

• Fanti, S., & Lalumera, E. (2015) Of standard of reference and accuracy: the problem of truth in imaging. European journal of nuclear medicine and molecular imaging, 1-3.

• Lalumera, E. (2015) Overcoming Expert Disagreement In A DelphiProcess. An Exercise In Reverse Epistemology. Humana Mente, 28, 87-103. 

• Lalumera, E. (2015) Il problema dell’”inferenza inversa” e il rapporto tra neuroscienze e psicologia. NEA SCIENCE, 2 (7), 77-78. 

• Lalumera, E. (2014) Whorfian Effects in Color Perception: Deep or Shallow?, Baltic International Yearbook of Cognition, Logic and Communication: Vol. 9.

• Lalumera, E. (2014). On the explanatory value of the concept-conception distinction. RIFL- Rivista Italiana di Filosofia del linguaggio, 8(3), 73-81.

• Lalumera, E. (2013). Concetti, relativismo e strategie flessibili. RIFL-Rivista Italiana di Filosofia del Linguaggio, 7(3), 62-70.

• Lalumera, E. (2013) Concepts exist. More about Eliminativism. Methode 2, 126-133.

• Lalumera, E. (2012) Review of A. Hatzimoysis Self-Knowledge (OUP, 2010), Analysis 72 (3): 619-620.

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• Lalumera, E. (2011) Concepts as general representations in situated theories, Anthropology and Philosophy, vol.10, 81-96.

• Lalumera, E. (2011) Dummett, Glock e Williams sulla natura e il futuro della filosofia, in Analisi: annuario della società italiana di filosofia analitica, ed. Richard Davies, read here.

• Lalumera, E. (2010) Introduction to Concepts. Thematic Issue of Dialectica, 64-1, pdf (pp. 1-9)

• Lalumera, E. (2010) Concepts are a functional kind. Comment on E. Machery's Doing Without Concepts Behavioral and Brain Sciences 33, 217-218.

•  M. Mazzone & E. Lalumera (2010) Concepts. Stored or Created?, Minds and Machines 20,1, 47-68, pdf

• Lalumera, E. (2010) Normatività. Aphex, Portale di Filosofia analitica, 1, 2010,pdf

• Lalumera, E. (2009) More than Words. In P. De Brabanter and M. Kissine (eds.) Utterance Interpretation and Cognitive Models, Bingley, Emerald Publishers, 75-99 pdf                            

• Lalumera, E. (2008) Concetti: capacità o rappresentazioni. Epistemologia 31, 77-98,pdf 

• Lalumera, E. (2007) Reference, Knowledge, and Skepticism about Meaning. Sorites 19, 1-18, pdf

• Lalumera, E. (2006) Concepts, Conceptions and Psychological Explanation. Comments on Millikan, Swif Philosophy of Mind Review, 5, 2006, pp. 19-25, pdf

• (2005) Basic Normativity of Concepts. A Re-reading of Kripke’s Sceptical Argument. in Facets of Concepts, a cura di J.J. Acero e P. Leonardi, Padova, il Poligrafo, 2005, pp.155-184

• (2005) La normatività del significato: una proposta naturalista. Epistemologia 28, 2005, pp. 293-320.

• (2005)  A Simple Realist Account of the Normativity of Concepts. Disputatio. An International Journal of Philosophy 19, 2005, 1-17, pdf

• (2005) Conceptual Analysis and Philosophical Naturalism. in Handbook of Categorization, a cura di C. Lefebvre, H. Cohen, Paris-Amsterdam, Elsevier, 2005, pp. 1055-1071. 

• (2005) Are Concepts Public?. In B.G. Bara, L. Barsalou & M. Bucciarelli (a cura di), Proceedings of the Cognitive Science Society, pp. 1231-5. Mahwah, NJ, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2005.

• (2004) Conoscenza a priori e regole semantiche innate. Sistemi Intelligenti 3, 2004, pp. 419-433.

• (2001)  Concetti, definizioni e analiticità. Lingua e Stile XXXVI, 1, 2001, pp. 25-42.

• (2000) What Are Conceptual Relations? in D. Marconi Knowledge and Meaning, Vercelli, Mercurio, 2000, pp. 61- 83.

• (1997) Holism, Communication and Pragmatic Norms. In P. Weingartner, G. Schurz, G. Dorn The Role of Pragmatics in Contemporary Philosophy, vol. 2., Kirchberg am Wechsel: Austrian Ludwig Wittgenstein Society, 1997, pp. 514- 519.