1/2 MAPS team members presented at the Hannover-Groningen Philosophy of Science Workshop.

The CELLS' colloquium series continues. Today we had Annalisa Costella, from the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Annalisa gave a talk titled "Of Green Frequently Flyers and Wealthy Socialists: A Defense of Apparent Hypocrisy."

Conference this weekend! If you aren't registered yet, you can do so on our website. (Conference is in-person only). #philsci #conference https://www.centerphilsci.pitt.edu/event/social-ontology-and-empirical-inquiry-conflicts-and-connections/

In this thread, we’ll be live-posting highlights from the “Scientific Progress via Model Transfer: The Case of Cultural Evolution” workshop talks. Follow along for updates 👇

Yesterday, the CELLS' colloquium series had its first speaker. Armin Schulz, from the University of Kansas. Armin gave a talk titled: Institutional Conflicts of Interest: A Novel Functionalist Account.

must read about experimental philosophy

The latest paper of our team member Edoardo Peruzzi is now available open access in Synthese. He argues that legal cross-examination can be undestood as a form of higher-order evidence defeat: link.springer.com/article/10.1... #FrontierResearch #ERCStG

1/2 Team member @jakobortmann.bsky.social has a new publication out in @philscijournal.bsky.social : "But what is 'Performativity of Science'? Austin, Perlocutionary Sequels, and Referent Malleability." philpapers.org/rec/ORTBWI

1/2 Team member George Barimah presented on "Medical AI Regulation and Inductive Risks: A Case by Case Perspective" at the Rethinking AI in Practice – Culture and Ethics’ Role in Shaping the Future of Digital Health Care Technologies Conference.

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"