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Gabriel Tarziu

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Postdoc at the MCMP, LMU Munich. Working on the philosophy of climate science, with broader interests in scientific understanding and explanation and the applicability of mathematics to the physical world. More about me here: https://shorturl.at/qz50C

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Gabriel Tarziu @gabrieltarziu.bsky.social · 6d

Quick reminder: the deadline for submissions to the EJPS TC “Understanding Climate Change: A Multifaceted Inquiry”, which I’m co-editing with @boruttrpin.bsky.social, is December 1, 2025.

Please share with anyone who might be interested!

More info here: link.springer.com/collections/...

Understanding Climate Change: A Multifaceted Inquiry

Climate change is one of the most pressing challenges of our time. Addressing it requires an unprecedented level of collaboration and engagement between ...

link.springer.com

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Gabriel Tarziu @gabrieltarziu.bsky.social · 9d

Gave two lectures at Max Planck Institute for Math in the Sciences last week—entirely to mathematicians, who turned out to be deeply curious about philosophy. Grateful to the organisers for including philosophy in an otherwise advanced, purely math program & invitation
www.mis.mpg.de/events/serie...

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Borut Trpin @boruttrpin.bsky.social · Aug 28

Gabriel (@gabrieltarziu.bsky.social) and I are guest editing a topical collection for EJPS on Understanding Climate Change. Submissions on the epistemology of climate science, policy, and public reasoning are welcome.

Deadline: 1 Dec 2025 → link.springer.com/collections/...

Understanding Climate Change: A Multifaceted Inquiry

Climate change is one of the most pressing challenges of our time. Addressing it requires an unprecedented level of collaboration and engagement between ...

link.springer.com

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Gabriel Tarziu @gabrieltarziu.bsky.social · Aug 14

My latest paper just came out in 𝑬𝒑𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒎𝒆. It explores the relationship between knowledge and power, specifically, how and under what conditions knowledge places an epistemic subject at an advantage over those who lack it. If you want to know more, you can read it here:
doi.org/10.1017/epi....

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eenphilsci.bsky.social @eenphilsci.bsky.social · Jul 4

Save the dates of 18-19th of September 2026 for the 6th Biennial EENPS Conference at the University of Bucharest!!!

Please expect a call for abstracts in autumn 2025 with submissions due likely in winter 2026!

eenps.weebly.com/eenps-2026.h...

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Gabriel Tarziu @gabrieltarziu.bsky.social · May 20

LMU Munich Climate School returns 6-11 Oct 2025. Open to students from all disciplines, it features lectures, workshops & a COP simulation. My lecture is on Philosophy of Climate Change: Trust in Science & Climate Change Denial. Please share with students who may be interested. #ClimateChange #LMU

Gabriel Tarziu @gabrieltarziu.bsky.social · May 13

Had a fantastic time yesterday at Ri as part of the "Decoding our Planet" workshop beautifully organised by @katysduncan.bsky.social and @miguelohn.bsky.social
More info here: www.aip.org/history/deco...

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Alisa Bokulich @alisabokulich.bsky.social · Apr 28

Fantastic program now out for #HPS conference "Decoding Our Planet: The Making of Geophysics", bringing together scholars from history of science, #geophysics, & philosophy of science to explore how modern geophysics
took shape in #19thC & 20thC, at the Royal Institution in London 12 May

Decoding Our Planet: The Making of Geophysics
How did we come to understand the origin and basic physical processes of our planet?
Answering this question requires us to understand the origins of modern geophysics, the science investigating everything from gravity and magnetism to earthquakes, climate change, and plate tectonics. The best place to answer this question is at the Royal Institution, where most major geophysicists discoursed, debated, and corresponded. In this workshop, we bring together leading scholars from history of science, and geophysics, and philosophy of science to explore how modern geophysics took shape in the nineteenth and twentieth century.
This event is held in conjunction with Discover200 - a celebration of the Ri's 200 year history of its Discourse series, CHRISTMAS LECTURES, and the isolation of Benzene
We are incredibly grateful to the Freer Trust, the Department of History and Philosophy of Science (University of Cambridge), and individual attendees for their generosity in funding this event. Thank you!
All talks are in the Conversation Room (see attached floorplan) unless otherwise specified.
Talks are 25 minutes and 10 minutes Q&A.
Lightning talks are 5 minutes, with a group 10 minute Q&A.
Schedule
9:00 - 9:30am
Breakfast and Registration Tea, coffee and pastries
Mezzanine
9:30 - 9:40am
Welcome and Introduction
Conversation Room
9:40 - 10:50am
Session 1
Alisa Bokulich
Boston University
Pablo Lima
University of Seville
The Philosophical Culture of the U.S. Coast Survey & the Rise of Geophysics: 1816-1874
The Making of Oceanography: Natural Models and Cross-scalar Reasoning in the Mediterranean Sea
10:50 - 11:10am
Coffee Break
Tea, coffee and biscuits
Mezzanine

11:10am - 12:20pm
Session 2
Katy Duncan
Royal Institution
Influence and Instrument: The Fair Weather Problem in
Atmospheric Electricity (1850-1930)
Gregory Good
West Virginia University
The Astronomical (and other) Backgrounds of Geophysics
12:20 - 12:55pm
Lightning Talks
Gabriel Târziu
LMU Munich
Rethinking the Importance of Model Hierarchies in Climate Science
David Pyle
University of Oxford
Sensing the Unquiet Earth - Frank Perret and the Monitoring of Restless Volcanoes
Nanina Föhr
LMU Munich
A Committee for the Ages: The Coordination of Geologic Time Measurement in the First Half of the zoth Century
James Ladyman
University of Bristol
Triangulation - Geophysics and the Scientific Method
Xiaoyue Hu
Peking University
The International Geophysical Year and the Development of Solar-Terrestrial Physics in China (19505-1980s)
10 minute Q&A
12:55 - 1:55pm
Lunch Break
Mezzanine

Selection of sandwiches, crisps, fruit, tea and coffee
1:55 - 3:05pm
Session 3
Teru Miyake
Nanyang Technological University
Untangling Seismology: The Göttingen Group 1907-1914
Miguel Ohnesorge
University of Cambridge
Quantification in Geophysics
3:05 - 3:15pm
Short Break (uncatered)

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Gabriel Tarziu @gabrieltarziu.bsky.social · Apr 26

Semester's begun! Proud to hear that more than half of the physics students who enrolled in our interdisciplinary master's course on climate change (which I'm co-teaching with two climate scientists at LMU) are very curious about the philosophical aspects! Pressure’s on 😬 to help that interest grow.

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Alisa Bokulich @alisabokulich.bsky.social · Apr 8

Excited to see a sneak peek of the upcoming Ri program on May 12th:
"Decoding Our Planet: The Making of Geophysics" on the origins of modern geophysics, the science investigating everything from gravity & magnetism to earthquakes, climate change, & plate tectonics.
More coming soon...
#HPS ⚒️

Ri
The Royal Institution
Science Lives Here
Decoding Our Planet: The Making of Geophysics
How did we come to understand the origin and basic physical processes of our planet?
Answering this question requires us to understand the origins of modern geophysics, the science investigating everything from gravity and magnetism to earthquakes, climate change, and plate tectonics. The best place to answer this question is at the Royal Institution, where most major geophysicists discoursed, debated, and corresponded. In this workshop, we bring together leading scholars from history of science, and geophysics, and philosophy of science to explore how modern geophysics took shape in the nineteenth and twentieth century.
All talks are in the Conversation Room (see attached floorplan) unless otherwise specified.
Talks are 25 minutes and 10 minutes Q&A
Lightning talks are 5 minutes, with a group 10 minute Q&A
Schedule
9:00 - 9:30am
Breakfast and Registration
Conversation Room
9:30 - 9:40am
Welcome and Introduction
9:40 - 10:50am
Session 1
Alisa Bokulich
Boston University
Pablo Lima
University of Seville
The Philosophical Culture of the U.S. Coast Survey & the Rise of Geophysics: 1816-1874
The Making of Oceanography: Natural Models and Cross-scalar Reasoning in the Mediterranean Sea.
10:50 - 11:10am
Coffee Break
Mezzanine
11:10am - 12:20pm
Katy Duncan
Royal Institution
Gregory Good
West Virginia University
Session 2
Influence and Instrument: The Fair Weather Problem in
Atmospheric Electricity (1850-1930)
The Astronomical (and other) Backgrounds of Geophysics

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