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philosophy of science, philosophy of psychology, philosophy of medicine, philosophy of psychiatry, causality, causal reasoning, science and values, science and society, trust in science, local knowledge, philosophy of AI

Biography

I am a philosopher of science working on causality and causal reasoning, values in science (including trust, science and democracy, pluralism), and philosophy of medicine (particularly psychiatry and public health, with focus on social and cultural aspects of health and illness).

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Employment (1)

Universidad de Sevilla: Seville, Andalusia, ES

2025-03-01 to present | Ramón y Cajal fellow (Philosophy, Logic, and Philosophy of Science)
Employment
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Elena Popa

Education and qualifications (1)

Central European University: Budapest, HU

2011-09-13 to 2016-06-15 | PhD (Philosophy)
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Elena Popa

Funding (1)

Values, Trust, and Decision Making in Public Health

Grant
National Science Center (Krakow, PL)
URL: https://incet.uj.edu.pl/en_GB/polonez-bis-values-trust
GRANT_NUMBER:

2021/43/P/HS1/02997
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Elena Popa

Works (22)

Challenges facing physiologists and the scientific enterprise in a post-truth world

Truth Unveiled: Navigating Science and Society in an Era of Doubt
2025 | Book chapter
DOI: 10.1016/b978-0-443-23655-6.00003-4
Part of ISBN: 9780443236556
Contributors: Elena Popa
Source: Self-asserted source
Elena Popa

Handling Disagreement in Vaccine Research: From Trustworthy Experts to Trustworthy Institutions

Diametros
2025-02-27 | Journal article
DOI: 10.33392/diam.2008
Part of ISSN: 1733-5566
Contributors: Elena Popa
Source: Self-asserted source
Elena Popa

Decision Making, Values and (Dis)Trust in Science: Two Cases from Public Health

The Science and Art of Simulation: Trust in Science
2024 | Book chapter
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-68058-8_11
Part of ISBN: 9783031680571
Part of ISBN: 9783031680588
Contributors: Elena Popa
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Elena Popa

Collingwood and the New Pragmatists on Socially Situated Knowledge

Interpreting R. G. Collingwood: Critical Essays
2024-11-30 | Book chapter
DOI: 10.1017/9781009337021.004
Part of ISBN: 9781009337021
Part of ISBN: 9781009337052
Part of ISBN: 9781009337007
Contributors: Elena Popa
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Elena Popa

Just pluralism: thinking about concepts of mental disorder in global context

Synthese
2024-08-21 | Journal article | Author
DOI: 10.1007/s11229-024-04724-7
Part of ISSN: 1573-0964
Contributors: Elena Popa
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Elena Popa

Values in public health: an argument from trust

Synthese
2024-06-07 | Journal article | Author
DOI: 10.1007/s11229-024-04650-8
Part of ISSN: 1573-0964
Contributors: Elena Popa
Source: Self-asserted source
Elena Popa

Policy change without ethical analysis? Commentary on the publication of Smajdor

Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics
2023-08 | Journal article | Author
DOI: 10.1007/s11017-023-09631-5
Part of ISSN: 1386-7415
Part of ISSN: 1573-1200
Contributors: Elena Popa; Jakub Zawiła-Niedźwiecki; Michał Zabdyr-Jamróz
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Elena Popa

Loneliness as Cause

Topoi
2023-06-01 | Journal article | Author
DOI: 10.1007/s11245-023-09933-2
Part of ISSN: 0167-7411
Part of ISSN: 1572-8749
Contributors: Elena Popa
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Elena Popa

Causation without the causal theory of action

Human Affairs
2022-10-26 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1515/humaff-2022-0032
Part of ISSN: 1337-401X
Part of ISSN: 1210-3055
Contributors: Elena Popa; Elena Popa
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Elena Popa

Concepts of Biodiversity, Pluralism, and Pragmatism: The Case of Walnut Forest Conservation in Central Asia

SATS
2022-07-26 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1515/sats-2021-0017
Part of ISSN: 1600-1974
Part of ISSN: 1869-7577
Source: Self-asserted source
Elena Popa

Getting counterfactuals right: the perspective of the causal reasoner

Synthese
2022-02 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1007/s11229-022-03492-6
Part of ISSN: 0039-7857
Part of ISSN: 1573-0964
Source: Self-asserted source
Elena Popa

Human Goals Are Constitutive of Agency in Artificial Intelligence (AI)

Philosophy & Technology
2021-12 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1007/s13347-021-00483-2
Part of ISSN: 2210-5433
Part of ISSN: 2210-5441
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Elena Popa

Loneliness and negative effects on mental health as trade-offs of the policy response to COVID-19

History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences
2021-03 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1007/s40656-021-00372-z
Part of ISSN: 0391-9714
Part of ISSN: 1742-6316
Source: Self-asserted source
Elena Popa

Mental health, normativity, and local knowledge in global perspective

Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences
2020-07 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.shpsc.2020.101334
Part of ISSN: 1369-8486
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Elena Popa

A Psychological Approach to Causal Understanding and the Temporal Asymmetry

Review of Philosophy and Psychology
2020-01-02 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1007/s13164-019-00459-4
Part of ISSN: 1878-5158
Part of ISSN: 1878-5166
Source: Self-asserted source
Elena Popa

Beauvoir’s ethics, meaning, and competition

Human Affairs
2019-10-25 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1515/humaff-2019-0037
Part of ISSN: 1337-401X
Part of ISSN: 1210-3055
Source: Self-asserted source
Elena Popa

Teaching Philosophy in Central Asia: Effects on Moral and Political Education

Interchange
2019-05 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1007/s10780-019-09355-3
Part of ISSN: 0826-4805
Part of ISSN: 1573-1790
Source: Self-asserted source
Elena Popa

Collingwood, Pragmatism, and Philosophy of Science

Collingwood on Philosophical Methodology, Karim Dharamsi, Giuseppina D'Oro & Stephen Leach (eds.)
2018 | Book chapter
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Elena Popa

Causality, Human Action and Experimentation: Von Wright's Approach to Causation in Contemporary Perspective

Acta Philosophica Fennica
2017 | Journal article
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Elena Popa

Is Future-Oriented Mental Time Travel Inextricably Linked to the Self?

Australasian Philosophical Review
2017 | Journal article
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Elena Popa

Causal Projectivism, Agency, and Objectivity

International Studies in the Philosophy of Science
2016 | Journal article
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Elena Popa

Collingwood and Manipulability-based Approaches to Causation: Methodological Issues

Collingwood and British Idealism Studies
2016 | Journal article
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Elena Popa

Peer review (17 reviews for 7 publications/grants)

Review activity for Journal of value inquiry. (1)
Review activity for Knowledge in society. (11)
Review activity for Minds and machines. (1)
Review activity for Phenomenology and the cognitive sciences. (1)
Review activity for Science and engineering ethics. (1)
Review activity for Synthese. (1)
Review activity for Topoi. (1)
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