Cristina Villegas (0D16-262B-DA3D)

Curriculum Vitae

Cristina Villegas

Cristina Villegas. Completed the Doctor in PhD in Philosophy [Doctorado en Filosofía] in 2020 by Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Master Universitario in M.A. in Education [Máster en Formación del Profesorado de Educación Secundaria] in 2014 by Universidad de Granada, Master Universitario in M.A. in Logic and Philosophy of Science [Máster en Lógica y Filosofía de la Ciencia] in 2015 by Universidade de Santiago de Compostela and Graduado in B.A. in Philosophy [Grado en Filosofía] in 2013 by Universidad de Sevilla. Is Contracted Researcher in Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Filosofia das Ciências. Published 6 articles in journals. Has 4 section(s) of books. Organized 3 event(s). Has received 1 awards and/or honors. Participates and/or participated as Other in 2 project(s), PhD Student Fellow in 2 project(s), Research Fellow in 1 project(s) and Research Technician Fellow in 1 project(s). Works in the area of Philosophy of Science, with an emphasis in Philosophy of Evolutionary Biology. Speciffically, she works in causation, chance and explanation in the field of evolutionary developmental biology. In her curriculum Ciência Vitae the most frequent terms in the context of scientific, technological and artistic-cultural output are: Dispositions; Mechanisms; Causation; Chance; Evolution; Evo-devo; Evolvability; Propensities; Chance in probabilistic models; .

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Identification

Personal identification

Full name: Cristina Villegas

Citation names

Villegas, Cristina
Villegas Cerredo, Cristina

Author identifiers

Ciência ID: 0D16-262B-DA3D
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-6402-5288

Email addresses

cvillegas@fc.ul.pt (Professional)

Websites

linktr.ee/cvillegas (Professional)

Knowledge fields

Humanities - Philosophy, Ethics and Religion - Philosophy
Humanities - Philosophy, Ethics and Religion - Philosophy
Humanities - Philosophy, Ethics and Religion - Philosophy

Languages

Language	Speaking	Reading	Writing	Listening	Peer-review
English	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)
Spanish; Castilian (Mother tongue)
Portuguese	Elementary (A2)	Upper intermediate (B2)	Elementary (A2)	Intermediate (B1)	Intermediate (B1)

Education

	Degree	Classification
2015 - 2020 Concluded	PhD in Philosophy [Doctorado en Filosofía] (Doctor) Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain "Variational Probabilities and Developmental Propensities. A Philosophical Study of Chance in Evolutionary Variation" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2013 - 2015 Concluded	M.A. in Logic and Philosophy of Science [Máster en Lógica y Filosofía de la Ciencia] (Master Universitario) Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Spain "Agriculture and Biology: an Epistemology of Wheat in the Origins of Genetics (in Spanish)" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2013 - 2014 Concluded	M.A. in Education [Máster en Formación del Profesorado de Educación Secundaria] (Master Universitario) Universidad de Granada, Spain "Teaching Innovation: Philosophy in Parque de las Ciencias (in Spanish)" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2009 - 2013 Concluded	B.A. in Philosophy [Grado en Filosofía] (Graduado) Universidad de Sevilla, Spain "Realism and Quantum Theory: D'Espagnat and the Notion of Veiled Reality (in Spanish)" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)

Affiliation

Science

	Category Host institution	Employer
2022/11 - Current	Contracted Researcher (Research)	Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Filosofia das Ciências, Portugal
	Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Filosofia das Ciências, Portugal
2021/09/01 - 2022/10/31	Postdoc (Research)	Konrad-Lorenz-Institut für Evolutions und Kognitionsforschung, Austria
	Konrad-Lorenz-Institut für Evolutions und Kognitionsforschung, Austria
2020 - 2021	Research Assistant (Research)	Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
	Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain (...)
2016/01 - 2020/01	Research Trainee (Research)	Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
	Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
2019/09 - 2019/12	Visiting Researcher (Research)	Senter for grunnforskning ved Det Norske Videnskaps-Akademi, Norway
	Senter for grunnforskning ved Det Norske Videnskaps-Akademi, Norway
2017/09/15 - 2017/12/22	Visiting Researcher (Research)	Katholieke Universiteit Leuven Hoger Instituut voor Wijsbegeerte, Belgium

Projects

Grant

	Designation	Funders
2022 - Current	Metaphysics of Biology: Processes and Dispositions PID2021-127184NB-I00 Teamwork member Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain	Gobierno de España Ministerio de Economía y Empresa Ongoing
2019 - 2020	Stochastic Representations in the Natural Sciences: Conceptual Foundations and Applications PGC2018-099423-B-100 PhD Student Fellow Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain	Concluded
2019 - 2020	Philosophy, Science and Cinema 222 Teamwork member Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain	Concluded
2015 - 2018	Probability in Science: Propensities, Statistics and Conditional Logic FFI2014-57064-P PhD Student Fellow Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain	Gobierno de España Ministerio de Economía y Empresa Concluded

Contract

	Designation	Funders
2022/11/07 - 2028/11/06	Evolutionary propensities and their evolution: integrating randomness and contingency in contemporary evolutionary biology 2021.03186.CEECIND/CP1654/CT0008 10.54499/2021.03186.CEECIND/CP1654/CT0008 Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Ongoing
2020 - 2021	Interviews on Evolvability: Reconstructing and Explaining the Recent History of Evolutionary Biology PAIT63/20-11/2020-11 Research Technician Fellow Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain Senter for grunnforskning ved Det Norske Videnskaps-Akademi, Norway
2019/09/01 - 2019/12/22	Evolvability: a New and Unifying Concept in Evolutionary Biology? - Research Fellow Senter for grunnforskning ved Det Norske Videnskaps-Akademi, Norway	Concluded

Outputs

Publications

Book chapter	Luis Alejandro Villanueva; Villegas, Cristina. "Procesos de transmisión musical: el son jarocho y el enfoque evo-devo de reproducción cultural". In El son mexicano en perspectiva: miradas multidisciplinares del arte y la cultura en torno al son mexicano, edited by Mariana Cruz Zuleta; Manuel Coca Izaguirre; Jorge Arturo Chamorro Escalante. 2024. Under revision Cristina Villegas. "Causing and Composing Evolution: Lessons from Evo-Devo Mechanisms". 2024. 10.1007/978-3-031-46917-6_4 Brigandt, Ingo; Villegas, Cristina; Love, Alan; Nuño de la Rosa, Laura. "Evolvability as a Disposition: Philosophical Distinctions, Scientific Implications". In Evolvability: a Unifying Concept in Evolutionary Biology?, edited by Thomas Hansen; Christophe Pelabon; David Houle; Mihaela Pavlicev, 55-72. MIT Press, 2023. In press Villegas, Cristina; Love, Alan; Nuño de la Rosa, Laura; Brigandt, Ingo; Wagner, Günter P.. Corresponding author: Villegas, Cristina. "Conceptual Roles of Evolvability across Evolutionary Biology: Between Diversity and Unification". In Evolvability, a Unifying Concept in Evolutionary Biology?, edited by Thomas Hansen; David Houle; Mihaela Pavlicev; Christophe Pelabon, 35-54. 2023. In press
Book review	Villegas, Cristina. "Book review: KAMPOURAKIS, K. and MCCAIN, K. (2020). Uncertainty. How it Makes Science Advance. New York: Oxford University Press.". (2023): Published
Encyclopedia entry	Suárez, Mauricio; Villegas, Cristina. "Causalidad en la ciencia [Causality in Science]". In Enciclopedia de Filosofía de la Sociedad Española de Filosofía Analítica (SEFA), 2018. http://www.sefaweb.es/causalidad-en-la-ciencia/. Published
Journal article	Grant Ramsey; Cristina Villegas. "Developmental Channeling and Evolutionary Dappling". Philosophy of Science (2024): https://doi.org/10.1017/psa.2024.5. 10.1017/psa.2024.5 Villegas, Cristina. "Variational Propensities: Development and Ultimate Causes". Philosophy of Science (2024): Under revision Ramsey, Grant; Villegas, Cristina. "Evolutionary dappling". Journal of Philosophy (2024): Under revision Cristina Villegas; Vanessa Triviño. "Tipología y disposiciones del organismo en la evo-devo: una aproximación metafísica". ArtefaCToS. Revista de estudios sobre la ciencia y la tecnología (2023): https://doi.org/10.14201/art202312179102. 10.14201/art202312179102 Villegas, Cristina; Vanessa Triviño. Corresponding author: Villegas, Cristina. "Typology and organismal dispositions in evo-devo: a metaphysical approach". ArtefaCToS (2023): Accepted Nuño de la Rosa, Laura; Villegas, Cristina. "Chances and Propensities in Evo-Devo". The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 73 2 (2022): 509-533. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/bjps/axz048. Published • 10.1093/bjps/axz048 Villegas, Cristina; Nuño de la Rosa, Laura. "Special Issue Editors Introduction: ‘Philosophy of Biology’". Quaderns de Filosofia 6 1 (2019): 11-14. https://ojs.uv.es/index.php/qfilosofia/article/view/14821/13936. Published Villegas, Cristina; Nuño de la Rosa, Laura. "Chances and Propensities in Evo-Devo". The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science (2019): https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1093/bjps/axz048. Published
Journal issue	Villegas, Cristina; Nuño de la Rosa, Laura. "Philosophy of Biology". Quaderns de Filosofia 6 1 (2019): https://ojs.uv.es/index.php/qfilosofia/issue/view/1046. Published • Invited editor
Magazine article	Villegas, Cristina. "Chronique. Evolution Evolving (Cambridge, 1-4 April 2019)", Revista de la Sociedad de Lógica y Filosofía de la Ciencia en España, 2020, https://www.solofici.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Revista-de-la-Sociedad-de-Lo%CC%81gica-Metodologi%CC%81a-y-Filosofi%CC%81a-de-la-Ciencia-en-Espan%CC%83a-num.-64-enero-2020.pdf. Jiménez-Buedo, María; Villegas, Cristina. "Lullius Lectures: Prof. Nancy Cartwright (interview)", Boleti´n de la Sociedad de Lo´gica, Metodologi´a y Filosofi´a de la Ciencia en Espan~a, 2019, https://www.solofici.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Boleti%CC%81n-de-la-Sociedad-de-Lo%CC%81gica-Metodologi%CC%81a-y-Filosofi%CC%81a-de-la-Ciencia-en-Espan%CC%83a-num.-63-diciembre-2018.pdf. Triviño, Vanessa; Villegas, Cristina. "Chronique. SIMPOSIO: Filosofía de la Biología. IX Congreso de la Sociedad de Lógica, Metodología y Filosofía de la Ciencia en España (SLMFCE)", Boletín de la Sociedad de Lógica y Filosofía de la Ciencia en España, 2019, https://www.solofici.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Boleti%CC%81n-de-la-Sociedad-de-Lo%CC%81gica-Metodologi%CC%81a-y-Filosofi%CC%81a-de-la-Ciencia-en-Espan%CC%83a-num.-63-diciembre-2018.pdf. Villegas, Cristina. "Chronique. IX Congreso de la Sociedad de Lógica, Metodología y Filosofía de la Ciencia en España (SLMFCE) (Madrid, 13-16 de noviembre de 2018)", Boletín de la Sociedad de Lógica y Filosofía de la Ciencia en España, 2019, https://www.solofici.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Boleti%CC%81n-de-la-Sociedad-de-Lo%CC%81gica-Metodologi%CC%81a-y-Filosofi%CC%81a-de-la-Ciencia-en-Espan%CC%83a-num.-63-diciembre-2018.pdf. Villegas, Cristina. "Chronique. International Conference On the nature of variation: random, biased and directional (Lisbon, 3-4 october 2017)", Boletín de la Sociedad de Lógica y Filosofía de la Ciencia en España, 2017, https://www.solofici.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Boleti%CC%81n-de-la-Sociedad-de-Lo%CC%81gica-Metodologi%CC%81a-y-Filosofi%CC%81a-de-la-Ciencia-en-Espan%CC%83a-num.-62-diciembre-2017.pdf.
Thesis / Dissertation	Villegas, Cristina. "Variational Probabilities and Developmental Propensities. A Philosophical Study of Chance in Evolutionary Variation". PhD, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 2020.

Activities

Oral presentation

	Presentation title	Event name Host (Event location)
2023/05/08	Evo-devo mechanisms: causing and composing evolution	Worksop Mechanism and its Enemies: New perspectives on the relation between machines and organisms CFCUL
2023/01/24	Mechanisms and dispositions in evolution: lessons from evo-devo	Centro de Filosofia das Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa (CFCUL) and Iberian Network of Philosophy of Science (ReIFiCi) joint seminar CFCUL
2022/12/16	Typology and organismal dispositions in evolution: a metaphysical approach	Xth Conference of the Spanish Society for Analytic Philosophy (SEFA 2022) Universidade de Santiago de Compostela
2022/11/26	Hacia un causalismo variacional	Symposium ‘Discusiones epistemológicas sobre los desarrollos actuales de la biología evolutiva’, 2022 conference cycle of the Asociación Iberoamericana de Filosofía de la Biología (AIFIBI)
2022/11/03	Development and Ultimate Causes	Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research colloquium series Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research
2022/10/07	Procesos de transmisión musical: el son mexicano y el enfoque evo-devo de reproducción cultural	2º International Colloquium El son mexicano en perspectiva Instituto veracruzaco de la cultura (Veracruz, Mexico)
2022/07/07	The reproduction of multimodal communication systems: an evo-devo model of music transmission	IX Language, culture and mind international conference (LCM2022) Universidad de Almería (Almería)
2022/07/02	The Reference Class Problem of Variation	9th Biennial Meeting of the Society for Philosophy of Science in Practice (SPSP) Society for Philosophy of Science in Practice (Ghent, Belgium)
2022/06/01	Variational Tendencies: Development as an Ultimate Cause	8th Meeting of the European Society for Evolutionary Developmental Biology (Euro Evo Devo 2022) European Society for Evolutionary Developmental Biology (Naples)
2021/11/18	Modeling Evolutionary Propensities	Tenth Congress of the Spanish Society of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science (X SLMFCE) Universidad de Salamanca
2021/11/10	Evolutionary Propensities and their Evolution	Philosophy of Biology BioKoinos Research Seminar Complutense University of Madrid
2021/10/14	Evolutionary Sample Spaces	Doctorate Research Seminar at the Department of Philosophy University of Kraków
2021/09/21	Causalismo variacional: las propensiones de la devo-evo	Seminario del Instituto de Estudios de la Ciencia y Tecnología (ECyT) Universidad de Salamanca
2021/07/15	The Conceptual Roles of Evolvability across Evolutionary Biology: Between Diversity and Unification	2021 International Society for the History Philosophy and Social Studies of Biology biennial congress (ISHPSSB)
2021/05/04	Espacios muestrales evolutivos: el problema de la variación en la evo-devo [Evolutionary sample spaces: the problem of variation in evo-devo]	Department of Logic, History and Philosophy of Science Seminar Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, Madrid, Spain
2021/03/30	Variation in Evolutionary Biology: Expected, Realized and Vernacular	IAS Research Centre for Life, Mind & Society Seminar University of the Basque Country (Spain)
2020/11/10	Round table: Pensar el COVID-19 desde la filosofía de la ciencia: ¿Qué podemos aprender? [Thinking COVID-19 from the Philosophy of Science: what can we learn?]	Science and Innovation Week 2020 Rey Juan Carlos University of Madrid
2020/07/13	Variational Probabilities in Evolution	British Society for the Philosophy of Science 2020 Annual Conference University of Kent
2020/06/16	Evolvability as a Disposition	CAS Evolvability Project Final Workshop Centr for Advanced Study (CAS, Oslo)
2019/09/13	Developmental Channeling and the Causal Structure of Evolutionary Theory	7th Biennial European Philosophy of Science Association Conference University of Geneva
2019/09/02	Variational Chance and the Propensity to Evolve’	CAS Seminar Centr for Advanced Study (CAS, Oslo) (Norway)
2019/07/08	Evolvability and the Causal Structure of Evolutionary Theory	2019 International Society for the History Philosophy and Social Studies of Biology biennial meeting (ISHPSSB) University of Oslo
2019/06/07	Variational Tendencies: The Developmental Propensities of Evo-Devo in the RNA Model	IV Postgraduate Congress of the Spanish Society of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science University of the Basque Country
2019/05/10	Developmental Propensities in the RNA Model: the Explanatory Scope of Evo-Devo	9th Workshop on Philosophy of Biology and Cognitive Sciences (PBCS9) University of the Basque Country
2019/04/02	The Explanatory Robustness of Developmental Types: a Propensity View	Evolution Evolving conference Churchill College, University of Cambridge
2018/11/29	The Propensity Interpretation of Probability and the Problem of Variation in Evolution	Philosophy of Science Graduate Seminar University of Kraków (Poland)
2018/11/14	Chances and Propensities in Evo-Devo	Ninth Congress of the Spanish Society of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science (IX SLMFCE) Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, Madrid, Spain
2018/10/24	Modelling Chance in Evolution	Model-Based Reasoning in Science and Technology Conference (MBR18_SPAIN) Universidad de Sevilla
2018/09/12	Commenter at the 5th Advanced Seminar of Philosophy of the Life Sciences ‘Interdisciplinarity in the Life Sciences and their Philosophy’	5th Advanced Seminar of Philosophy of the Life Sciences ‘Interdisciplinarity in the Life Sciences and their Philosophy' Konrad Lorenz Institute (Vienna, Austria)
2017/11/10	Chance in Evo-Devo	Brown Bag Seminar, Centre for Logic and Analytic Philosophy KU Leuven (Belgium)
2017/10/04	Possible Forms and Possible Adaptations, or how Variability and Evolvability Challenge Random Variation	On the Nature of Variation: Random, Biased and Directed International Workshop Universidade de Lisboa (Lisbon, Portugal)
2017/08/22	The Metaphysics of Propensities	Ninth European Congress of Analytical Philosophy (ECAP9) Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (Munich, Germany)
2017/07/04	Agricultura y evolución: el trigo como objeto epistémico en los orígenes de la genética [Agriculture and evolution: wheat as an epistemic object in the origins of genetics]	IV Iberoamerican Congress in Philosophy of Science and Technology (CIFCYT) Universidad de Salamanca (Salamanca, Spain)
2017/05/04	A New Role for Propensities in the Statisticalist-Causalist Debate	7th Workshop on Philosophy of Biology and Cognitive Sciences (PBCS7) Universidad de Murcia (Murcia, Spain)
2016/09/29	On a Causal Dispositionalist View of Probability	International Workshop on the Metaphysics of Causal Probability in the Life Sciences Universidad Complutense de Madrid

Event organisation

	Event name Type of event (Role)	Institution / Organization
2018/11/13 - 2018/11/16	Ninth Congress of the Spanish Society of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science (IX SLMFCE). National University of Distance Education, November 13-16. Member of the local organising committee. (2018/11/13 - 2018/11/16) Congress (Member of the Organising Committee)	Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, Spain
2018 - 2018	8th Research Workshop on Philosophy of Biology and Cognitive Sciences (PBCS8). (2018/05/03 - 2018/05/04) Workshop (Co-organisor)	Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
2018 - 2018	Workshop ‘The Method of Arbitrary Functions’, Complutense University of Madrid. (2018/09/21 - 2018/09/21) Workshop (Member of the Organising Committee)	Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain

Ad Hoc journal article review

	Journal title (ISSN)	Publisher
2023 - Current	Theoria
2022 - Current	Acta Biotheoretica
2022 - Current	Revista Culturas Científicas
2022 - Current	Logos
2022 - Current	Disputatio

Committee member

	Activity description Role	Institution / Organization
2018 - 2018	‘PhDay’ of the Faculty of Philosophy, Complutense University of Madrid. Member of the organising committee. Member	Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain

Conference scientific committee

	Conference name	Conference host
2022 - Current	PBCSXI Research Workshop
2023/07/12 - 2023/07/14	4th Lisbon International Conference on Philosophy of Science (LICPOS 2023)	CFCUL
2018 - 2018	Ninth Congress of the Spanish Society of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science (IX SLMFCE).	Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, Madrid, Spain

Course / Discipline taught

	Academic session	Degree Subject (Type)	Institution / Organization
2019 - 2019	Epistemology and History of Science - Seminar sessions	Epistemología e Historia de las Ciencias (Graduado)	Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
2016 - 2019	Philosophy of Science I - Seminar sessions	Philosophy of Science I (Graduado)	Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
2016 - 2019	Philosophy of Science II - Seminar sessions	Philosophy of Science II (Graduado)	Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
2016 - 2019	Philosophy of Language I - Seminar sessions	Filosofía del Lenguaje I (Graduado)	Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
2016 - 2019	Philosophy of Language II - Seminar sessions	Filosofía del Lenguaje II (Graduado)	Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain

Evaluation committee

	Activity description Role	Institution / Organization	Funding entity
2020/05 - 2020/05	Blind review of candidate work for the ‘best TFM [MA thesis] award 2018-2019’ of the Spanish Society of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science. Evaluator

Other jury / evaluation

	Activity description	Institution / Organization
2018 - 2018	Blind review of research article for the journal Revista Hispanoamericana de Filosofía CRÍTICA.

Distinctions

Other distinction

2020	Cum laude distinction in PhD dissertation Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain