MAPS Project
@mapsproject.bsky.social
Managing Performative Science (MAPS) seeks to assess & manage the ethical risks of performativity. Team: Philippe van Baßhuysen, Nadia Ruiz @jakobortmann.bsky.social, George Kwasi Barimah, Matthias Ackermann, & @becklukas.bsky.social
1/2 Team member @becklukas.bsky.social is sharing his forthcoming chapter (Desire in Economics) in the Routledge Handbook on the Philosophy of Desire.
I am sharing a preprint of my chapter forthcoming in the Routledge Handbook on the Philosophy of Desire (edited by @alexgregory.bsky.social): "Desires in Economics."
philpapers.org/rec/BECDIE-3
Feedback or any thoughts are welcome!
Contains references to a galaxy far, far away🌌
More details below👇
philpapers.org/rec/BECDIE-3
Feedback or any thoughts are welcome!
Contains references to a galaxy far, far away🌌
More details below👇
Lukas Beck, Desires in Economics - PhilPapers
At the heart of economics is a concept that bears a striking resemblance to a desire. Economists use preferences to explain and predict people's choices. However, what exactly we are talking ...
philpapers.org
November 25, 2025 at 10:41 AM
1/2 Team member @becklukas.bsky.social is sharing his forthcoming chapter (Desire in Economics) in the Routledge Handbook on the Philosophy of Desire.
1/2 Team member Nadia Ruiz's paper has just been published: "Dan Hausman on Macroeconomic Models." www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Ruiz critiques Dan Hausman’s 2023 The Inexact and Separate Science of Economics by examining his view of economic models as predicate models ...
Ruiz critiques Dan Hausman’s 2023 The Inexact and Separate Science of Economics by examining his view of economic models as predicate models ...
Dan Hausman on macroeconomic models
In this critique and exploration of Dan Hausman’s 2023 edition of The Inexact and Separate Science of Economics, I focus on his view of economic models as predicate models and his commitment to equ...
www.tandfonline.com
November 20, 2025 at 10:03 AM
1/2 Team member Nadia Ruiz's paper has just been published: "Dan Hausman on Macroeconomic Models." www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Ruiz critiques Dan Hausman’s 2023 The Inexact and Separate Science of Economics by examining his view of economic models as predicate models ...
Ruiz critiques Dan Hausman’s 2023 The Inexact and Separate Science of Economics by examining his view of economic models as predicate models ...
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Working on #TrustInScience #AcademicFreedom #ValuesInScience #Expertise #IntegrativeResearch #ScienceForPolicy or related topics?
👉 Apply until Nov. 30 for the Early-Career Workshop on #Wissenschaftsreflexion taking place June 2026. Travel costs and accomodation can be covered. Spread the word :)
👉 Apply until Nov. 30 for the Early-Career Workshop on #Wissenschaftsreflexion taking place June 2026. Travel costs and accomodation can be covered. Spread the word :)
November 19, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Working on #TrustInScience #AcademicFreedom #ValuesInScience #Expertise #IntegrativeResearch #ScienceForPolicy or related topics?
👉 Apply until Nov. 30 for the Early-Career Workshop on #Wissenschaftsreflexion taking place June 2026. Travel costs and accomodation can be covered. Spread the word :)
👉 Apply until Nov. 30 for the Early-Career Workshop on #Wissenschaftsreflexion taking place June 2026. Travel costs and accomodation can be covered. Spread the word :)
1/2 Team member Philippe van Basshuysen and @simonlohse.bsky.social just published "Three Problems for Predictive Policy Advice." Predictive policy advice faces three fundamental challenges: the choice of disciplines providing the advice; value judgments implicit in forecasts;
New preprint about science-informed policy by Philippe van Basshuysen and myself: philsci-archive.pitt.edu/27233/
@philsci-archive.bsky.social @mapsproject.bsky.social
@philsci-archive.bsky.social @mapsproject.bsky.social
Three Problems for Predictive Policy Advice - PhilSci-Archive
philsci-archive.pitt.edu
November 19, 2025 at 2:14 PM
1/2 Team member Philippe van Basshuysen and @simonlohse.bsky.social just published "Three Problems for Predictive Policy Advice." Predictive policy advice faces three fundamental challenges: the choice of disciplines providing the advice; value judgments implicit in forecasts;
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🔥 Excited to welcome Alberto Bartoccini as a visiting scholar to our #ModelTransfer team!
Alberto is a PhD student in the joint Economics programme of the Tuscan Universities. As a historian of economic thought, he studies how scientific knowledge is codified, standardized, and transmitted. 👇
Alberto is a PhD student in the joint Economics programme of the Tuscan Universities. As a historian of economic thought, he studies how scientific knowledge is codified, standardized, and transmitted. 👇
November 19, 2025 at 11:17 AM
🔥 Excited to welcome Alberto Bartoccini as a visiting scholar to our #ModelTransfer team!
Alberto is a PhD student in the joint Economics programme of the Tuscan Universities. As a historian of economic thought, he studies how scientific knowledge is codified, standardized, and transmitted. 👇
Alberto is a PhD student in the joint Economics programme of the Tuscan Universities. As a historian of economic thought, he studies how scientific knowledge is codified, standardized, and transmitted. 👇
Yesterday, Sebastian Meller gave a talk entitled "Olfaction––a forgotten sensory tool? Biomedical perspectives across species boundaries" at the CELLS colloquium.
November 18, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Yesterday, Sebastian Meller gave a talk entitled "Olfaction––a forgotten sensory tool? Biomedical perspectives across species boundaries" at the CELLS colloquium.
MAPS' office Performing Hannover's Night Sky
November 13, 2025 at 2:17 PM
MAPS' office Performing Hannover's Night Sky
Team member @becklukas.bsky.social gave a talk entitled "Policy Optimization IAMs as Normative Models" at the Institute of Philosophy Colloquium. @iphilluh.bsky.social
November 12, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Team member @becklukas.bsky.social gave a talk entitled "Policy Optimization IAMs as Normative Models" at the Institute of Philosophy Colloquium. @iphilluh.bsky.social
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Online workshop: Methodologies for use of History in Philosophy, hosted by Instituto de Investigatciones Filosoficas–UNAM, organised by María Martínez-Ordaz @mmartinezordaz.bsky.social & Teresa Rodriguez. Registration free. Complete form to receive zoom link forms.gle/qJRncUDEc254...
#HPS #Philsky
#HPS #Philsky
![November 14, 2025
• [15:30-17:00 CET || 08:30-10:00 MX] Keynote
Talk: "Towards a methodologist integration of history and philosophy of science. Marriage counseling from a pragmatist perspective."
Jouni-Matti Kuukkanen (University of Oulu)
• [17:00-17:50 CET || 10:00-10:50 MX] "Counterfactual Sufficiency in Historical Explanation: Old and New History in 1948"
Zainab Sabra (American University of Beirut)
• |17:50-18:00 CET I| 10:50-11:00 MX] MINI-BREAK
• [18:00-18:50 CETI 11:00-11:50 MX] "Historical Macro-Units as a Form of Conceptual Engineering" Bobby Vos (University of Cambridge)
• [18:50-19:40 CET // 11:50 - 12:40 MX] "Early Modern Feminist Approaches to Misogynistic Bias in the Historical Archive"
Natalia Zorrilla (McGill University)
• [19:40 -19:50CET || 12:40-12:50 MX] MINI-BREAK
• [19:50-20:40 CET// 12:50-13:40 MX] "Idealising the history of science for philosophical purposes" Dubian Cañas.
• |20:40-21:30 CET// 13:40-14:30
MX] "Why some inaccurate case studies work?
Reflections on the epistemic value of philosophically biased historical reconstructions"
María del Rosario Martínez-Ordaz](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:a7bwjxnqslemro4mrguw5vfv/bafkreif7tjcqxyhw6ivn6cvhv7vysub34sgjn2irva263g2z6wtmhgpsbe@jpeg)
![November 13, 2025
• [16:00-17:30 CET I| 09:00-10:30 MX] Keynote
Talk: "Newton's Metaphysics in Practice" Kirsten Walsh (University of Exeter, England)
• 17:30-18:20 CET I| 10:30-11:20 MX| "Reconstructing Trust: Social-Historical Trajectories of the Physician-Patient Relationship in Post-Unification Italy" Anna Gadignani (Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies, Italy)
• [18:20-18:30 CET I| 11:20-11:30 MX] MINI-BREAK
• [18:30-19:20 CETI 11:30-12:20 MX] "Aristotle and Proclus on Mathematics as an Axiomatic Science: A Data-Driven Comparison"
Maria Chiara Parisi (University of Amsterdam, NL)
• 19:20-20:10 CET // 12:20 - 13:10 MX] "A reply to incommensurability: from historiography to philosophy of logic"
Evelyn Erickson (Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil)
• [20:10 -20:20CET || 13:10-13:20 MX] MINI-BREAK
• [20:20-21:10 CET// 13:20-14:10 MX] "A Meta-Narrativist Approach to the Reconstruction of Internal History: The Autonomy-Continuity Problem" Andrés Vázquez-Quijano (UNAM)
• [21:10-22:00 CET// 14:10-15:00 MX] "Problems in the historical study of the intellectual and spiritual contributions of women in classical Islam from a gender perspective"
Tzitzi Janik Rojas Torres (UNAM)](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:a7bwjxnqslemro4mrguw5vfv/bafkreibbyykhaegpswhv3pjthrdrrivitxwqrnidv4ofitkoi43qyhey5m@jpeg)
November 7, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Online workshop: Methodologies for use of History in Philosophy, hosted by Instituto de Investigatciones Filosoficas–UNAM, organised by María Martínez-Ordaz @mmartinezordaz.bsky.social & Teresa Rodriguez. Registration free. Complete form to receive zoom link forms.gle/qJRncUDEc254...
#HPS #Philsky
#HPS #Philsky
Team member Philippe van Basshuysen gave a talk entitled "Performative Power in Science" at the Institute of Philosophy Colloquium. @iphilluh.bsky.social
November 6, 2025 at 9:25 AM
Team member Philippe van Basshuysen gave a talk entitled "Performative Power in Science" at the Institute of Philosophy Colloquium. @iphilluh.bsky.social
Last Monday, Kevin Elliot gave a talk on "Revisiting Values and Science Through the Lens of Reflexive Performativity," which is a paper in collaboration with MAPS team member @jakobortmann.bsky.social.
October 29, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Last Monday, Kevin Elliot gave a talk on "Revisiting Values and Science Through the Lens of Reflexive Performativity," which is a paper in collaboration with MAPS team member @jakobortmann.bsky.social.
Congratulations to Edoardo Peruzzi.
Photo highlights from yesterday’s talk by Edoardo Peruzzi in Pittsburgh (credit: @center4philsci.bsky.social)!
#FrontierResearch #ERCStG #ModelTransfer #LTT #CenterPhilSci
Watch the recording on YouTube:
www.youtube.com/live/A73Ifkf...
#FrontierResearch #ERCStG #ModelTransfer #LTT #CenterPhilSci
Watch the recording on YouTube:
www.youtube.com/live/A73Ifkf...
October 29, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Congratulations to Edoardo Peruzzi.
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Listen to our team member’s talk at the Center for Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh!
#FrontierResearch #ERCStG #ModelTransfer
#FrontierResearch #ERCStG #ModelTransfer
Don’t miss our Lunch Time Talk with Edoardo Peruzzi!
📅 Tomorrow, October 28th
⏰ 12pm EDT
📍 CL-1117
Title: "Model Transfer Through Formal Template Accumulation"
More about the talk on our website.
Can't make the talk? Join on Zoom: https://ow.ly/ZQZi50XhWkW
See you there!
#LTT #CenterPhilSci
📅 Tomorrow, October 28th
⏰ 12pm EDT
📍 CL-1117
Title: "Model Transfer Through Formal Template Accumulation"
More about the talk on our website.
Can't make the talk? Join on Zoom: https://ow.ly/ZQZi50XhWkW
See you there!
#LTT #CenterPhilSci
October 27, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Listen to our team member’s talk at the Center for Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh!
#FrontierResearch #ERCStG #ModelTransfer
#FrontierResearch #ERCStG #ModelTransfer
Team member Philippe van Basshuysen's paper has just been published: Performativity in Science: Past and Future in Philosophy Compass. doi.org/10.1111/phc3...
Performativity in Science: Past and Future
Performativity is the capacity of science to exert influence on the very phenomena it seeks to describe, for instance, when an economic prediction of a recession creates expectations which, in turn, ....
doi.org
October 24, 2025 at 9:07 AM
Team member Philippe van Basshuysen's paper has just been published: Performativity in Science: Past and Future in Philosophy Compass. doi.org/10.1111/phc3...
Team member Nadia Ruiz presented her research paper "Modeling in Economic Policy: Rethinking Models's Epistemic Limitations" at the Philosophy Conference of Causal Inference in Economics Workshop, held on Oct 6-7 in Kraków, Poland.
October 23, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Team member Nadia Ruiz presented her research paper "Modeling in Economic Policy: Rethinking Models's Epistemic Limitations" at the Philosophy Conference of Causal Inference in Economics Workshop, held on Oct 6-7 in Kraków, Poland.
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🎉Congratulations to George Barimah on receiving the Victor Rizkallah-Siftung award for outstanding scientific achievements!
Help us congratulate team member George Barimah on receiving the Victor Rizkallah-Siftung award for outstanding scientific achievements at @unihannover.bsky.social
The award recognizes his dissertation, "The epistemic and moral dimensions of testimony in scientific research." @iphilluh.bsky.social
The award recognizes his dissertation, "The epistemic and moral dimensions of testimony in scientific research." @iphilluh.bsky.social
October 13, 2025 at 12:19 PM
🎉Congratulations to George Barimah on receiving the Victor Rizkallah-Siftung award for outstanding scientific achievements!
Nobel Prize in Economics
The 2025 Nobel Prize In Economic Sciences Awarded To Three Scholars
The 2025 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences was awarded to Joel Mokyr (Northwestern Univ.), Phillippe Aghion (London School of Economics) and Peter Howitt (Brown Univ.).
www.forbes.com
October 13, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Nobel Prize in Economics
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Our team member Edoardo Peruzzi organizes a workshop together with @karimbaraghith.bsky.social:
"Scientific Progress via Model Transfer? The Case of Cultural Evolution"
📍 Leibniz Universität Hannover
📅 April 9–10, 2026
Below you’ll find more information about the workshop and the CfP 👇
"Scientific Progress via Model Transfer? The Case of Cultural Evolution"
📍 Leibniz Universität Hannover
📅 April 9–10, 2026
Below you’ll find more information about the workshop and the CfP 👇
October 13, 2025 at 10:24 AM
Our team member Edoardo Peruzzi organizes a workshop together with @karimbaraghith.bsky.social:
"Scientific Progress via Model Transfer? The Case of Cultural Evolution"
📍 Leibniz Universität Hannover
📅 April 9–10, 2026
Below you’ll find more information about the workshop and the CfP 👇
"Scientific Progress via Model Transfer? The Case of Cultural Evolution"
📍 Leibniz Universität Hannover
📅 April 9–10, 2026
Below you’ll find more information about the workshop and the CfP 👇
Help us congratulate team member George Barimah on receiving the Victor Rizkallah-Siftung award for outstanding scientific achievements at @unihannover.bsky.social
The award recognizes his dissertation, "The epistemic and moral dimensions of testimony in scientific research." @iphilluh.bsky.social
The award recognizes his dissertation, "The epistemic and moral dimensions of testimony in scientific research." @iphilluh.bsky.social
October 13, 2025 at 9:29 AM
Help us congratulate team member George Barimah on receiving the Victor Rizkallah-Siftung award for outstanding scientific achievements at @unihannover.bsky.social
The award recognizes his dissertation, "The epistemic and moral dimensions of testimony in scientific research." @iphilluh.bsky.social
The award recognizes his dissertation, "The epistemic and moral dimensions of testimony in scientific research." @iphilluh.bsky.social
Team member Nadia Ruiz's 2nd interview for Philosophisch Gefragt. She talks about her approach to teaching Feminist Philosophy of Science, which emphasizes
epistemic authority as a key cause of the knowledge-production gap in science. Enjoy! @iphilluh.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ErrO...
epistemic authority as a key cause of the knowledge-production gap in science. Enjoy! @iphilluh.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ErrO...
Feminist philosophy of science / Feministische Wissenschaftsphilosophie - Interview mit Dr. Ruiz
YouTube video by philosophisch gefragt
www.youtube.com
September 29, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Team member Nadia Ruiz's 2nd interview for Philosophisch Gefragt. She talks about her approach to teaching Feminist Philosophy of Science, which emphasizes
epistemic authority as a key cause of the knowledge-production gap in science. Enjoy! @iphilluh.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ErrO...
epistemic authority as a key cause of the knowledge-production gap in science. Enjoy! @iphilluh.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ErrO...
MAPS member Matthias Ackerman discusses how we should conceptualize and evaluate the efforts of climate scientists to estimate the sensitivity of the climate system to changes in radiative forcing in a forthcoming paper in the BJPS. @iphilluh.bsky.social
Just accepted:
Climate Sensitivity through the Lens of Measurement Practice
– Matthias Ackermann
Abstract in alt text or read it here:
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
#philsci #philsky
Climate Sensitivity through the Lens of Measurement Practice
– Matthias Ackermann
Abstract in alt text or read it here:
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
#philsci #philsky
September 25, 2025 at 9:26 AM
MAPS member Matthias Ackerman discusses how we should conceptualize and evaluate the efforts of climate scientists to estimate the sensitivity of the climate system to changes in radiative forcing in a forthcoming paper in the BJPS. @iphilluh.bsky.social
Team member George Barimah's paper has just been published: Collective Scientific Testimony and Trustworthy Public Health Agencies in Public Health Ethics. @iphilluh.bsky.social
academic.oup.com/phe/article/...
academic.oup.com/phe/article/...
September 23, 2025 at 8:49 AM
Team member George Barimah's paper has just been published: Collective Scientific Testimony and Trustworthy Public Health Agencies in Public Health Ethics. @iphilluh.bsky.social
academic.oup.com/phe/article/...
academic.oup.com/phe/article/...
Team member Nadia Ruiz talking about who is Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz––a forgotten female figure in philosophy. Please enjoy! @iphilluh.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZaT...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZaT...
Forgotten female philosophers: Sor Juana/ vergessene Philosophinnen: Sor Juana - Interview Dr. Ruiz
YouTube video by philosophisch gefragt
www.youtube.com
September 11, 2025 at 9:56 AM
Team member Nadia Ruiz talking about who is Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz––a forgotten female figure in philosophy. Please enjoy! @iphilluh.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZaT...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZaT...
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Our super-impressive post-doc @Donal Khosrowi and two of our MA-students
www.philos.uni-hannover.de/de/institut/...
www.philos.uni-hannover.de/de/institut/...
Celebrating student success: our MA students at the European Workshop for Algorithmic Fairness
www.philos.uni-hannover.de
August 1, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Our super-impressive post-doc @Donal Khosrowi and two of our MA-students
www.philos.uni-hannover.de/de/institut/...
www.philos.uni-hannover.de/de/institut/...
Sci|Phi|Han Conference 2025, organized by the Philosophy of Science Master's program, @iphilluh.bsky.social. Special congratulations to the organizers, keynotes, and all the young academics presenting and attending.
July 26, 2025 at 9:06 AM
Sci|Phi|Han Conference 2025, organized by the Philosophy of Science Master's program, @iphilluh.bsky.social. Special congratulations to the organizers, keynotes, and all the young academics presenting and attending.