Cristina Villegas

Philosophy of the Life Sciences

About me

I am a philosopher of biology working on probabilities and the notion of chance in evolution.

I graduated in Philosophy (Sevilla, 2013), and obtained Master's Degrees in Education (Granada, 2014) and Logic and Philosophy of Science (Santiago de Compostela, 2015). In 2015, I joined the Complutense University of Madrid with a predoctoral fellowship from the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness. I obtained my PhD in 2020 (link to dissertation).

I was a postdoctoral fellow at the Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research in Austria (2021-2022).

Currently, I am a postdoctoral researcher at the Center for Philosophy of Science of the University of Lisbon.


My research interests are: Philosophy of evolutionary biology; Philosophy of probability; Chance in evolution; Causality and dispositional explanations; Evolutionary developmental biology; Cultural evolution.


Contact: cvillegas [at] fc.ul.pt

BioKoinos

I am a member of BioKoinos, a research group in the Philosophy of Biology based at Complutense University of Madrid, where I got my PhD.

CFCUL

I am based at the Center for Philosophy of Science of the University of Lisbon (CFCUL).

I have a postdoctoral contract here through the FCT, the Foundation for Science and Technology of Portugal.

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Previously

Centre for Advance Study, Oslo

I was part of the project 'Evolvability: a new and unifying concept in evolutionary biology?', led by Thomas Hansen and Christophe Pélabon at the Centre for Advance Study (CAS) of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters in Oslo (2019-2020).

Konrad Lorenz Institute, Klosterneuburg

I was a postdoctoral fellow at the KLI in Klosterneuburg, Austria, between 2021 and 2022. There, I started my ongoing project "Evolutionary propensities and their evolution".