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SCIPLU is a three-year EU-funded project led by @mvagelli.bsky.social and hosted at Ca' Foscari University examining the concept of scientific pluralism and defining a new understanding of this concept based on the notion of “style”.
📢The HISTEPS WG Seminar Series is back with a third session, featuring Marianne Janack, Roberto Gronda, and Giancarlo Marchetti with a talk on “Pragmatism and Philosophy of Science”

📅December 11, 16.00-17.30 (Venice Time, CET)

🤓Register here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
December 11, 2025 at 9:49 AM
📢 Are you in Venice next week?
Join us for @mvagelli.bsky.social 's talk:
“What’s in It for the (Scientific) Pluralist? Styles of Reasoning between Disunity and Integration”

📆 Wednesday, December 3 | 17:30–19:00
📍 Ca’ Foscari University, Palazzo Malcanton Marcorà, Aula Biral
November 28, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Huge thanks to everyone who joined us yesterday for the second HISTEPS session with Adam Tamas Tuboly 🙌

📅The third session is coming up on Thursday 11/12 with Roberto Gronda, Marianne Janack and Giancarlo Marchetti don’t miss it!

🔗 Check out the full programme: pric.unive.it/projects/sci...
November 7, 2025 at 10:11 AM
📍See the full HISTEPS WG Seminar Series programme below.

🔗 To participate, please fill out this form: forms.gle/ws8fiU8LYvrB...
October 28, 2025 at 1:27 PM
🎉 Last HISTEPS session was a success! Flavia Padovani discussed Hans Reichenbach (pictured here) and C.I. Lewis on the Pragmatic A Priori.
Thanks to all the participants!

📅 Next up on 6 November: Adam Tamas Tuboly on “Otto Neurath's Emigration: Planning Logical Empiricism in the British Muddle”
October 28, 2025 at 1:27 PM
📝 Join us tomorrow for the first online session of HISTEPS with a talk by Flavia Padovani "Hans Reichenbach and C.I. Lewis on the Pragmatic A Priori: Cognition and Values" (see 2025/2026 programme below)

📅 16 Oct 16:00-17:30 (CET)
🔗 To register and receive the link, please contact: [email protected]
October 15, 2025 at 12:50 PM
✨️Full room and dim lights for Peter Galison's lecture on: Author Function in Scientific Collaboration: Around the Event Horizon. 🌌
October 13, 2025 at 2:24 PM
‼️ Change of venue for the TiPS inaugural lecture with Peter Galison on: Author Function in Scientific Collaboration: Around the Event Horizon.

📅 Monday 13 October at 4 PM (Venice time)
📍Now at Palazzo Cosulich, Fondamenta delle Zattere
October 9, 2025 at 8:20 AM
New week, new launch! 🚀
Join us next Monday (13 October, 16:00-17:30 Venice Time) at Ca' Foscari University for the inaugural lecture of TiPS with Peter Galison on
"Author Function in Scientific Collaboration: Around the Event Horizon"

📅 For info & online attendance: [email protected]
October 6, 2025 at 2:10 PM
📢We’re happy to present the next activity of SCIPLU: the launch of HISTEPS, an online monthly seminar series on the history & philosophy of science, coordinated by
@mvagelli.bsky.social

⬇️See the full programme below for more info
October 5, 2025 at 5:55 PM
#ENPOSS2025 concludes with a session chaired by Paul Roth, with papers by @mvagelli.bsky.social and Roberto Gronda on 'Modelling Narratives:What Good is Scientific Pluralism to Historiography?' and by Yafeng Wang on 'Process Tracing and the Problem of Establishing Causal Relationships Within a Case'
September 12, 2025 at 3:17 PM
#ENPOSS2025 is slowly wrapping up with a book symposium featuring prof. Robert Northcott on his latest book, published in 2025: 'Science for a Fragile World', with @mjbuedo.bsky.social and Paul Roth as discussant, and chaired by prof. Eleonora Montuschi.
September 12, 2025 at 1:33 PM
3/5 Annagiulia Canesso: 'Government and Normality. An Historical-Epistemological Perspective on the Use of Medical Semantics in Comte and Durkheim', and @ferrarim.bsky.social: 'Social Organization and the Government of Society. History and Critique of Cybernetic Human, Social and Political Sciences'
September 12, 2025 at 1:20 PM
2/5 With contributions by Giovanni Minozzi: 'From Political Science to Sociology (and Back). The Problem of Government in the Epistemology of Auguste Comte', Giulio Pignatti on 'Reconceptualising Government Beyond Modern Political Philosophy: Émile Durkheim on the State'
September 12, 2025 at 1:20 PM
1/5 Morning continued with two engaging sessions at #ENPOSS2025! A symposium on 'The Problem of Government Between Social and Political Sciences: A Study of Epistemology of Concepts'
September 12, 2025 at 1:20 PM
4/4 In Aula Mazzariol, Lorenzo D’Addantetrifiletti discusses 'Vagueness and the Ontology of Social Reality: Are Social Kinds Vague, and Does it Matter?', followed by a paper by Francesco Franda: 'From Dead to Resurrected: A Puzzle for Social Kinds' in a session chaired by @mjbuedo.bsky.social
September 12, 2025 at 8:46 AM
3/4 And a paper by @catemar.bsky.social and Till Grüne-Yanoff on 'Mechanistic evidence, policy inference, and the problem of mechanism individuation'
#ENPOSS2025
September 12, 2025 at 8:46 AM
2/4 In Aula Valent, a session, chaired by Eugenio Petrovich, featuring papers by Mees van Santen on 'Measuring development: Rethinking the HDI through Co-Production and Political Legitimacy'
#ENPOSS2025
September 12, 2025 at 8:46 AM
And a paper by @ivanboldyrev.bsky.social on 'A Bigger Game: Criticizing Market Design Models'
#ENPOSS2025
September 11, 2025 at 4:14 PM
And a session chaired by @catemar.bsky.social with papers by @aydinonat.bsky.social on 'An Argumentative Device for All Sides: The Supply and Demand Model in the Covid-19 Pandemic', Benjamin Santos Genta, on 'Channels of Model Performativity';
September 11, 2025 at 4:14 PM
2/2 And a paper by Michael Greer : 'Approaching Care Epistemology Through Qualitative Methods: or How Gathering My Own Data Changed Me as a Feminist Philosopher'
#ENPOSS2025
September 11, 2025 at 3:38 PM
1/2 Day 2 of #ENPOSS2025 concludes with a session chaired by Malvina Ongaro, including presentations by Sina Badiei on 'Reexamining Subjective Preferences: Toward a Model of Capabilities', Alexander Ostapiuk on 'Big M 2.0. The Art of War for Philosophers of Economics',
September 11, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Stéphanie Ruphy discusses whether 'Democracy Need More Politically Engaged Scientists ?' in her keynote speech, chaired by Eleonora Montuschi at #ENPOSS2025, in a sunny Aula Baratto
September 11, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Meanwhile, in Aula Baratto, in a session chaired by Julie Zahle, Francesco Nappo reflects on 'Design Principles for the IPCC Emission Scenario Ensemble', followed by Marco Emilio's contribution on 'Social Powers and Epistemic Practices in Eco-Social Research'
#ENPOSS2025
September 11, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Late morning session in Aula Berengo at Ca'Foscari #ENPOSS2025 in a session chaired by Matteo Giannasi. Tommaso Listo discusses 'Hacking and Latour: a Political Epistemology Dialogue at a Distance'
September 11, 2025 at 10:07 AM