Research
Research
I work on the ethics, epistemology, and politics of the health and life sciences.
I am especially interested in women's health, femtech (female technology), and "biological sex" in medicine and beyond.
Please email me for copies of papers you cannot access.
selected publications, comments, & reviews
Marsella, J., M. DiMarco, A. Higgins, S. Richardson and J. Bruch. "Investment Feminism and Women's Health." Accepted at Signs: Journal of Women and Culture in Society. [investment feminism preprint]
DiMarco, M. (2025). "Sex As a Biological Variable and the Pursuitworthiness of Exploratory Inquiry." European Journal for Philosophy of Science 15 (71). [SABV exploratory paper]
Boulicault, M., K. Ichikawa, A. Thinius, M. DiMarco, A. Murchland, B. Maldonado, A. Higgins & Richardson, S. (2025). "Sex in the medical machine: How algorithms can entrench bioessentialism in precision medicine." Big Data & Society. [alzheimers paper] (open access)
DiMarco, M. and M. Miyagi. (2025). "Review of Rasmus Grønfeldt Winther’s Our Genes." Philosophy of Science 92, 768–782
doi:10.1017/psa.2024.35. [our genes book review]
Watkins, A. and M. DiMarco. (2025). "Sex Eliminativism." Biology and Philosophy 40(2). [sex eliminativism paper]
DiMarco, M. "Models as Dogwhistles." (2024). Philosophy of Science 91(1): 72-89. [dogwhistles paper] (open access)
DiMarco, M. "Cooperative Epistemic Trustworthiness." (2023). Philosophy of Science 90 (5): 1100 - 1109. [trust paper] (open access)
DiMarco, M., H. Zhao, M. Boulicault, and S. S. Richardson. (2022). "Why 'Sex as a Biological Variable' Conflicts with Precision Medicine Initiatives." Cell Reports Medicine 3 (4): 100550. [SABV paper] (open access) [SABV explainer blog] [SABV thread]
DiMarco, M. and K. Khalifa. (2022). "Sins of Inquiry: How to Criticize Scientific Pursuits." Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 92, 86-96. [sins paper] [sins talk ] [sins thread]
DiMarco, M. (2021). "Wishful Intelligibility, Black Boxes and Epidemiological Explanation,'' Philosophy of Science 88 (5): 824-834. [wishful conference paper] [wishful full paper] [wishful talk] [wishful thread]
DiMarco, M. (2020). "(re)Producing mtEve." Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences 83 (2020): 101290. [mtEve paper] This paper won the 2021 Werner Callebaut Prize.
DiMarco, M. and K. Khalifa. (2019). "Inquiry Tickets: Values, Pursuit, and Underdetermination,'' Philosophy of Science 86 (5): 1016-1028. [inquiry tickets paper]
Pop, public & media
GenderSci Lab's letter of comment on the AMA's "Draft Guidance on Reporting Gender, Sex, Gender Identity, Sexual Orientation, and Age in Medical and Scientific Publication."
DiMarco, M. (2022). "Black Boxes and Wishful Intelligibility." Scatterplot [black box blog]
DiMarco, M., A. Fair and B. Maldonado. (2022). "How to Be an Anti-Eugenicist." Gender Sci Blog [anti-eugenics blog]