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
Welfare Econ faces a core problem: preference endogeneity. What should we do when the yardstick used to assess policies changes with the analysed system? MAPS member @becklukas.bsky.social tackles this issue in the context of large-scale interventions. New paper in Politics, Philosophy & Economics.
www.lukasbeck.co
December 19, 2025 at 10:33 AM
Welfare Econ faces a core problem: preference endogeneity. What should we do when the yardstick used to assess policies changes with the analysed system? MAPS member @becklukas.bsky.social tackles this issue in the context of large-scale interventions. New paper in Politics, Philosophy & Economics.
Team member Philippe van Basshuysen's paper has just been published: Performative power in Science in the European Journal for Philosophy of Science.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Performative power in science - European Journal for Philosophy of Science
Performativity is the capacity of scientific representations (such as models, theories, predictions, or classifications) to alter the phenomena they are supposed to represent. Because one and the same...
link.springer.com
December 11, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Team member Philippe van Basshuysen's paper has just been published: Performative power in Science in the European Journal for Philosophy of Science.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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New from the BJPS Review of Books
It’s Only Human
– Armin W Schulz
Reviewed by Olivier Morin
Read it here:
www.thebsps.org/reviewofbooks/morin-on-schulz
#philsci #philsky
It’s Only Human
– Armin W Schulz
Reviewed by Olivier Morin
Read it here:
www.thebsps.org/reviewofbooks/morin-on-schulz
#philsci #philsky
Armin Schulz, It’s Only Human | BJPS Review of Books
Olivier Morin reviews It’s Only Human, by Armin Schulz
www.thebsps.org
December 9, 2025 at 11:30 AM
New from the BJPS Review of Books
It’s Only Human
– Armin W Schulz
Reviewed by Olivier Morin
Read it here:
www.thebsps.org/reviewofbooks/morin-on-schulz
#philsci #philsky
It’s Only Human
– Armin W Schulz
Reviewed by Olivier Morin
Read it here:
www.thebsps.org/reviewofbooks/morin-on-schulz
#philsci #philsky
Great initiative from @belewollesen.bsky.social (team member of @modeltransfer.bsky.social ). Thank you for inviting us!!!
Writing can be a difficult and often lonely activity. To make it easier, our team member Bele Wollesen hosts weekly Writing Sessions that bring our team and other interested researchers at LUH together to work on individual writing projects in a structured and supportive environment.
December 9, 2025 at 9:56 AM
Great initiative from @belewollesen.bsky.social (team member of @modeltransfer.bsky.social ). Thank you for inviting us!!!
Team member Matthias Ackermann gave a talk entitled "Predictable Uncertainty’ and Locally Reliable Climate
Change Information" at CELLS Colloquium.
@iphilluh.bsky.social
Change Information" at CELLS Colloquium.
@iphilluh.bsky.social
December 8, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Team member Matthias Ackermann gave a talk entitled "Predictable Uncertainty’ and Locally Reliable Climate
Change Information" at CELLS Colloquium.
@iphilluh.bsky.social
Change Information" at CELLS Colloquium.
@iphilluh.bsky.social
SOCRATES Fellow Doohyun (Richard) Sung gave a talk titled "Persistence is Futile: On Pursuit and Futility Analysis in Pharmaceutical Research" at the CELLS colloquium @iphilluh.bsky.social
December 1, 2025 at 1:52 PM
SOCRATES Fellow Doohyun (Richard) Sung gave a talk titled "Persistence is Futile: On Pursuit and Futility Analysis in Pharmaceutical Research" at the CELLS colloquium @iphilluh.bsky.social
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⏰DEADLINE APPROACHING
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 CfP 👇
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 CfP 👇
November 25, 2025 at 3:30 PM
⏰DEADLINE APPROACHING
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 CfP 👇
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 CfP 👇
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 👇