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...

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

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

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

⏰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 👇

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 ...

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 :)

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;

🔥 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. 👇

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

Team member @becklukas.bsky.social gave a talk entitled "Policy Optimization IAMs as Normative Models" at the Institute of Philosophy Colloquium. @iphilluh.bsky.social

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

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.

Congratulations to Edoardo Peruzzi.

Listen to our team member’s talk at the Center for Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh! #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...

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.

🎉Congratulations to George Barimah on receiving the Victor Rizkallah-Siftung award for outstanding scientific achievements!

Nobel Prize in Economics

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 👇

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

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...

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/...

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...

Our super-impressive post-doc @Donal Khosrowi and two of our MA-students 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.

Team member @becklukas.bsky.social presented "On the Diversity of Models in Normative Inquiry" at the #BSPS2025

@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

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

Group member Philippe van Basshuysen's paper "When Predictions are More Than Predictions: Self-Fulfilling Performativity and the Road Towards Morally Responsible Predictive Systems" has just been accepted for publication www.academia.edu/129990683/Wh...

Joint talk in Hannover on 23 June! #philsci #ebp @mapsproject.bsky.social www.cells.uni-hannover.de/de/news/news...

(Sorry for posting this late.) The last two talks of #MAPS2025 symposium were given by @profwilson.bsky.social "Dynamical Causal Modeling and Performativity," and Melissa Vergara Fernández, "On the Influence of Jensen and Meckling's Theory of the Firm."

It was such a great conference, thank you, @mapsproject.bsky.social team!

The second day started with three great talks: Ekaterina Svetlova on "Performativity and ignorance of machine learning algorithms in finance" @jakobortmann.bsky.social on "But what is Performativity of Science?" and Mayli Martens on "Understanding Performative Prediction"

Yesterday we ended day 1 with Donal Khosrowi's talk "Predicting or Recommending? Negotiating the Proper Roles for Machine Learning in Scientific Discovery " and Henrik Roed Sherling's talk "Looping Effects are Content-dependent". #MAPS2025

After lunch, we had @ivanboldyrev.bsky.social presentation on "Precursors of Market Design: A Historical Perspective and a Theoretical Afterword." #MAPS2025

The second session went great with the talks of Francesco Guala -Values in scientific forecasting- and Davide Serpico– Making Decisions at Tipping Points: The Case of Addiction. #MAPS2025

It just started!! Thanks for the Welcoming Remarks to Philippe van Basshuysen and @elenapopaphi.bsky.social talk on "Performativity and Population Health Science" #MAPS2025

Looking forward to presenting here tomorrow. I will explore performativity in the context of population health, focusing on how individual vs population-based framing are suited for the purpose of improving overall health.

We hope to see you all tomorrow!!!

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 third article in the special issue Are Social Sciences Special? which @martinkusch.bsky.social and I co-edit is by @federicobrandmayr.bsky.social. It presents results of a large survey of British academics on how they see their own disciplinary identity wrt social sciences #philsci #sts #histsci

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