Harriet Fagerberg

Harriet Fagerberg is a Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge's Department of History and Philosophy of Science. She holds a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship and previously served as a Fellow in the Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method at the London School of Economics (LSE) and a Postdoctoral Fellow at Hunter College and The Graduate Center, CUNY. She completed a joint PhD in Philosophy from King’s College London and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, focusing on biological function, pathology, and disease in the context of the brain.

Her research interests span philosophy of biology, medicine, and the mind, with a focus on how biological function relates to pathological states and brain mechanisms. She has been affiliated with the Berlin School of Mind and Brain and the Sowerby Philosophy & Medicine Project at King’s College London.

She has received the prestigious Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship, supporting her interdisciplinary work at the intersection of philosophy and life sciences.

While no specific grants or advising roles are mentioned, her research collaborations include projects at leading institutions in Berlin and London, reflecting her commitment to bridging philosophy with empirical sciences.