Elisabetta Lalumera - publications

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Books

Lalumera (forthcoming) Filosofia della Medicina. Problemi e Nuove Sfide. Milano, Mondadori.
Lalumera, Elisabetta (2025) Health, Well-Being, and Quality of Life. A Philosophical Analysis, Cham, Palgrave Macmillan
Lalumera, Elisabetta (2025). Il cibo giusto. Filosofia critica delle norme del mangiare, Bologna, Esculapio.
Lalumera, E. (2023) Stare bene. Un'analisi filosofica. Bologna, il Mulino.
Lalumera, E. (2022) Etica della comunicazione sanitaria. Bologna, il Mulino
Lalumera, E. (2021) Medicina e metodo sperimentale. Un'introduzione filosofica. Bologna: Esculapio.
Lalumera, E. (2013) Che cos'è il relativismo cognitivo, Roma, Carocci.
Lalumera, E. (2009) Cosa sono i concetti. Roma-Bari, Laterza.
Coliva, A. e Lalumera, E. (2006) Pensare. Leggi ed errori del ragionamento. Roma, Carocci.
Lalumera, E. (2004) Concetti e normatività. Il paradosso scettico di Kripke e la filosofia analitica della mente. Padova, il Poligrafo.

As editor

Lalumera, E. & Fanti, S. (eds.) (2020) Philosophy of Advanced Medical Imaging. Ethical Briefs Series, Dordrecht: Springer

Articles and book chapters

Debrabander, S. Fanti, and E. Lalumera (2026) Incidental Findings From Treatment Response Monitoring in Oncological Care: Ethical Reflections,. Bioethics 0, 1-8.
Amoretti, M. C., & Lalumera, E. (2026). Clarifying the muddle: towards a comprehensive taxonomy of cognitive biases in medicine. Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy, 1-12.
Lalumera, E. (2025). Health Concepts in Medicine and the Role of Philosophy. Philosophy of Medicine, 6(1).
Lalumera, E. (2025) Philosophical Issues in Medical Imaging, in: A. Broadbent (ed.) Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Medicine, Oxford, Oxford University Press, ch. 24, pp. 525 - 548
Debrabander, Jasper; Fanti, Stefano; Vetrone, Luigia; Lalumera, Elisabetta (2025) Incidental Findings in Nuclear Imaging: Should Patient Consent Be Obtained Before Disclosure?, «THE JOURNAL OF NUCLEAR MEDICINE», 2025, 66, pp. 1 - 1
Lalumera, Elisabetta (2025) Rethinking Explainability in AI for Diagnostic Imaging, in: Farina et al. (ed.) Digital Development Technology, Ethics and Governance, New York, Routledge, 2025, pp. 279 - 296
Lalumera, E. (2025) Conceptual Engineering of Medical Concepts. In M.G. Isaac, S. Koch, K. Scharp (eds.), New Perspectives on Conceptual Engineering, vol.3., pp. 43-67.
Lalumera, Elisabetta (2025), The Experts, the Virtuous and the Wounded. Who Should Take Part in an «Ideal Conversation»? A Note on Philip Kitcher’s «Moral Progress», «IRIDE», 2025, 38, pp. 145 - 150
Elisabetta Lalumera (2024) Ameliorating epistemic injustice with digital health technologies, in: L. Bortolotti (ed.) Epistemic Justice in Mental Healthcare Recognising Agency and Promoting Virtues Across the Life Span, London, Palgrave Macmillan, 2024, ch.8, pp. 141-158.
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) I l 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.
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.

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