Vito Balorda

I am a postdoc at the Department of Philosophy, University of Rijeka (Croatia, EU). I am interested in the following philosophical disciplines: the Philosophy of Science, Metaphysics, the Philosophy of Biology and Medicine, and Metaphilosophy. I research general topics such as explanation and causation. More specific topics I deal with are scientific and metaphysical explanations, biological functions, the role of philosophers in mitigating crisis in science, and the role of interventions in medical treatment.

In 2024, I completed my PhD thesis titled "The Causal Explanation in Molecular Biology" at the Department of Philosophy, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Rijeka. This PhD project was funded by the Croatian Science Foundation.

I am a recipient of the EPSA (European Philosophy of Science) postdoc research fellowship for early-career philosophers at the UC Louvain (Belgium) for the academic year 2025/2026. During the academic year 2022/2023, I was a doctoral research fellow at the Wirth Institute, University of Alberta (Canada). Additionally, I was a visiting scholar at the University of Padua (Italy) in 2021, and a visiting researcher at the Laboratory of Evolutionary Genetics at the Ruđer Bošković Institute (Zagreb, Croatia), in 2019.  

In 2023, I was a recipient of the Rector's Award for Excellent Achievement from the University of Rijeka. 

I delivered talks at numerous conferences, among others, at the Universities of California (Berkeley), Alberta, Bordeaux, Berlin, Geneva, Glasgow, Oslo, and Porto.

For more information, see sections: publications, talks, fellowships & awards, and CV. 

Additionally, details about my activities outside academia can be found in the non-academic section. 

For any inquiries, please feel free to contact me via e-mail: vito.balorda@gmail.com; vito.balorda@uniri.hr