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...

🔥 Watch out for the launch of this great book (Sept 29) on Methods in the Philosophy of Science (btw. it also contains a hands-on intro on using emp network analysis in Philosophy of Science by M. Doehne and myself).

Become a Visiting Fellow! Interested in joining the Center for Philosophy of Science? More info about our programs available on our website at www.centerphilsci.pi... Applications for 2026-27 will be opening soon!

We were delighted to share our research at the #ModelTransfer Symposium at the #INEM conference! Huge thanks to @unibayreuth.bsky.social and the organizers for hosting such a stimulating event that brings together so many in the philosophy of economics community. #FrontierResearch #ERCStG

Our team is at the #INEM conference in Bayreuth! This morning, Bele Wollesen spoke on manipulation in collective decision mechanisms. Tomorrow morning, Edoardo Peruzzi, Catherine Herfeld (online), and Murat Bakeev join a symposium on #ModelTransfer and its Challenges in Economics. Don’t miss it!

JOB AD: If you research philosophy, history or social studies of biology, with interest in agroecology, crop science or environmental intelligence, consider applying for 3-year postdoctoral fellowship in Munich! Deadline for applications: 31/10, details www.sts.sot.tum.de/en/sts/arbei... #philsci

Save the Date! Join us Friday 9/26 at 3:30pm for our first Annual Lecture Series talk of the term. Andrea Loettgers (University of Vienna) will be giving a talk on "Model Templates and Model-Based Unification." More information can be found here: www.centerphilsci.pi...

#Outnow: in unserer aktuellen #Podcast-Folge der #NachwuchsFragen sprechen wir mit Prof. Dr. Catherine Herfeld (@cherfeld.bsky.social) über ihren Weg in die #Professur & die Einwerbung eines #ERC-Grants. Jetzt #reinhören 🎧 www.graduiertenakademie.uni-hannover.de/de/postdoc/p... 🧵

Article: Gender homogeneity in philosophy and methodology of economics: evidence from publication patterns, by Alexandre Truc, François Claveau, Catherine Herfeld & Vincent Larivière doi.org/10.1080/1350...

This is just a first (and surely not the last) attempt at tackling the problem – but we have something like this to share: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Very much looking forward to being part of this upcoming RMZ winter term speaker series, talking about our ERC research on model transfer in science!

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...

👉Watch the recording of the "Limits and Applicabilty of Models - Models of the World" session (14.05.25) from the UZH lecture series on uncertainty, moderated by our teammate Edoardo Peruzzi! Speakers: Mathias Frisch (LUH), Tarja Knuuttila (Uni VIenna), Joachim Buhmann (ETH Zurich).

🔥Meet the #ModelTransfer team: Oliver Budras joined us Aug 1 as a postdoc, working on empirical mappings of model transfer with his text-mining expertise. As a financial economist, he’s interested in how physics concepts like Brownian Motion are adapted in financial theory. His profile👇

Our super-impressive post-doc @Donal Khosrowi and two of our MA-students www.philos.uni-hannover.de/de/institut/...

@mnoichl.bsky.social and I are organizing two workshops where you can learn about and try out digital methods for philosophy: 12th-13th September in Düsseldorf, Keynotes @cherfeld.bsky.social & Adrian Wüthrich 16-18th October in Utrecht, Keynotes Gregor Betz & Charles Pence. Register until 31.8.

🔥Meet the #ModelTransfer team: Saeid Ebrahimi has been part of the project since 2024, taking care of our website. He is currently pursuing his MA in philosophy of science, focusing on science communication. www.model-transfer.uni-hannover.de/de/team/saei... #FrontierResearch #ERCStG

📢 New publication alert ✨ In her new BJPS paper, Karla Weingarten argues that a representative use of Feynman diagrams can be conceptualized as a use of Feynman diagrams as models that provide modal understanding of their associated target phenomena. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

The next Society for Philosophy of Science in Practice (SPSP) conference will be held at the University of Cambridge, U.K, on 15-18 July 2026. #philsci philosophy-science-practice.org

We are proud to share that our team member Edoardo Peruzzi was a keynote speaker at the Sci|Phi|Han 2025 conference, where he delivered a talk on scientific methods in the history and philosophy of economics!

🔥 New paper w @alxndrtrc.bsky.social, F. Claveau & V. Larivière on Gender Homogeneity in Philosophy and Methodology of Economics, forthc in Journal of Economic Methodology. We find a larger gender imbalance in phil & methodology of econ than its parent disciplines econ & phil: osf.io/preprints/so...

Check out the program of this wonderful graduate conference this weekend at @iphilluh.bsky.social, organized by our graduate students of our MA Philosophy of Science program. They even have a keynote by one of our @modeltransfer.bsky.social MODEL TRANSFER team members, Edoardo Peruzzi: sciphihan.de

Our team members Edoardo Peruzzi and @belewollesen.bsky.social are back from #BSPS25 in Glasgow, where they gave talks on formal templates and #ModelTransfer, and on harms to marginalized groups from info asymmetry in scientific discourse. Thanks to all for the fun time! #FrontierResearch #ERCStG

Yesterday, our team member @belewollesen.bsky.social gave a talk titled "Dominated Discourse" at the Feminist Philosophy of Science workshop at Ruhr University Bochum! Through simulation analysis, she demonstrated how marginalized groups face epistemic disadvantages compared to dominant groups.

Job Opening at the Chair of Philosophy and History of Science and Technology at TUM! Research Fellow for 3 years (renewable). Preferably philosopher w interest in plant, crop & agricultural research (& their history and social studies) All details: www.sts.sot.tum.de/en/sts/arbei... #philsci #sts

Oooo Charles Pence & Daniel Swaim are putting together a special issue on the philosophy of the historical sciences (and you can publish in French!). pencelab.be/en/events/rp... #philsci

New publication: “Trade-offs and Progress in Cancer Science”, open access here: link.springer.com/book/10.1007... Thank you to Adrian Currie for the feedback, and to Frigg and Worrall for their invitation to contribute. (This was the Lakatos lecture.)

@belewollesen.bsky.social, who joined us in April, gave a talk yesterday at the @iphilluh.bsky.social colloquium! She analyzed manipulability as a thick concept in social choice, and argued for a pluralistic approach to its measurement. #FrontierResearch #ERCStG #ModelTransfer

Cfp: HOPOS 2026 Sixteenth Biennial Congress of International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science Ohio State University, Columbus (OH) 22-26 June 2026 Call for paper & symposium proposals. Deadline: 30 September 2025, 11:59 (PT). Submit at congress web site: hopos2026.dryfta.com #HPS

The new paper co-authored with @emsent.bsky.social just dropped! Check it out, it’s the intro to the forthcoming special issue of the JEM, all of the papers are already available, I’ll post sth more about it when it officially appears. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The Forum Wissenschaftsreflexion (Forum for Scientific Reflection) at #LUH (@unihannover.bsky.social‬) will host a workshop for early career researchers on June 18, 2026, as part of its opening conference. Applications are due by October 31, 2025. Details: www.lcss.uni-hannover.de/en/events/ev...

At the latest session of the @iphilluh.bsky.social colloquium, our team member Murat Bakeev gave a talk entitled "Methodological Challenges to Model Transfer and Their Mitigation: The Case of Agent-Based Models in Macroeconomics." Thanks to all who attended! #FrontierResearch #ERCStG #ModelTransfer

Our PI @cherfeld.bsky.social gave another talk at the Leibniz Center for Science and Society colloquium! The talk (in German) was about the use of quantitative empirical methods in PhilSci, with examples from Catherine's research on the transfer of rational choice models. #FrontierResearch #ERCStG

Call for papers: Women in Science: historical perspectives Conference 18 Nov. 2025 at Royal Society Submit proposals < 300 words, incl a biographical note of c.50 words) for 20-min papers to [email protected] subject line ‘proposal for conference paper’ Deadline: 30 June 2025 #HPS

Yesterday, our PI @cherfeld.bsky.social gave a talk entitled "Model Transfer in the Recent History of Economics: The Case of Rational Choice Models" at the Seminar of the Society for the Social Studies of Quantification (SSSQ) at the Center Maurice Halbwachs #FrontierResearch #ERCStG #ModelTransfer

Last Friday, we gathered with our extended #ERCStG #ModelTransfer group including student assistants for traditional summer drinks in the beer garden, and used the opportunity to update our team picture!

Interesting new lab! The Computational Philosophy Lab’s mission is to “conduct philosophical research using computational methods; and to reflect critically and constructively on the nature, uses, and societal impacts of artificial intelligence.” Find out more:

Our team member @belewollesen.bsky.social spoke at the Formal Democratic Theory Workshop at LSE! In her talk, entitled "On Equality, Power and Strategic Voting," she discussed different theories of power in voting and examined how strategic voting can distort these power relations.

This morning's session on #ModelTransfer in the History of Economics at #ESHET2025 was wonderful! Huge thanks to our brilliant discussants—Margaret Schabas, Magda Fontana, and Harro Maas—and to all the participants. We're grateful to be part of this community! @shoet.bsky.social #ERCStG

Edoardo Peruzzi and Murat Bakeev are at #ESHET2025 in Turin! Tomorrow at 8:45 AM they're presenting with Elizaveta Burina in the "Model Transfer in the History of Economics" symposium. Hope to see you there! @shoet.bsky.social #FrontierResearch #ERCStG #ModelTransfer

We are pleased to invite you to the MAPS Symposium, taking place on June 4 and 5, 2025, at Koniglicher Pferdestall. Attendance is free and open to all. We have a great lineup! Join us for two days of engaging discussions and critical reflections.

The book adopts an integrated history and philosophy of science approach to study controlled laboratory experiments and randomized field trials in economics, should be a fascinating read!

Our team member Edoardo Peruzzi recently joined a podcast by the American Antitrust Institute with Prof. Christine Bartholomew and antitrust lawyer David Fisher. They talked about the Daubert standard, economic experts, and the challenges of handling science in courts. Listen here:

Dr. Edoardo Peruzzi presented "The Application of Economic Models in the Courtroom: A Failed Promise" at the CELLS research colloquium. Thank you for the great talk and fruitful discussion at the Q&A. @iphilluh.bsky.social @modeltransfer.bsky.social

Join us for the upcoming CELLS research colloquium next Monday, April 28, from 10:15-11:45 am featuring our team member Edoardo Peruzzi! The title of his talk is "The Application of Economic Models in the Courtroom: A Failed Promise?" Address: Otto-Brenner-Straße 1, Room 1930.A001, LUH

🔥Meet the #ModelTransfer team: @belewollesen.bsky.social joined April 15 as a postdoc to do research on the transfer of models between econ and CS. In particular, she will study the migration of incentive-compatible mechanism concepts and AI models. #FrontierResearch #ERCStG @erc.europa.eu 👇

👉 Our PI @cherfeld.bsky.social just published 'Enhancing the function of case studies: the value of network analysis in integrated history and philosophy of science' in Synthese! The paper discusses whether network analysis can be useful for research in &HPS. doi.org/10.1007/s112...

Our paper on tool exchange at @casbsstanford.bsky.social during the 1950s is forthcoming in History of Political Economy (@erc.europa.eu). We show that economists engaged with the behavioral sciences movement if they shared their methodological commitments: read.dukeupress.edu/hope/article...

👉 Check out Catherine Herfeld and Edoardo Peruzzi's paper "No More Than Exchanging Tools: Jacob Marschak and the Early Years of Cross-Disciplinary Interactions Between Economics and the Behavioral Sciences Movement, 1950–1956," now available at the HOPE journal website. doi.org/10.1215/0018...

Summer semester at LUH is underway. Our team member Edoardo Peruzzi is leading a seminar on philosophical accounts of scientific progress. The course explores whether progress means accumulating more knowledge, improving problem-solving abilities, or developing theories with greater truthlikeness.