Still not quite over this moment. It was truly an honour (and I admit a bit awe-inspiring) to listen to Kostas Gavroglu — towering historian of science and former Minister of Education & Research in the Tsipras government — engage so thoughtfully with my book.

📢The HISTEPS WG Seminar is back with a 5th session, with Matteo Collodel on “Against Authority: Political Roots of P. K. Feyerabend’s Epistemology”. 📅February 12, 16.00-17.30 (Venice Time, CET) 🤓Register here: forms.gle/MzMbmkHh65dW... ℹ️More info: pric.unive.it/projects/sci...

So thrilled this is coming up in just 3 days! Sharing the updated poster for the Athens roundtable on Reconsidering Historical Epistemology (Feb 2). Happy to send the Webex link to anyone who’d like to join online — just message me.

📽️ The recording of our latest #HISTEPS session is now available on YouTube! Many thanks to Silke Körber for a wonderful talk and discussion on Different Shades of “Scientific Humanism”. Watch it here 👉 www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtn6... See you at the next session on February 12!

📢The HISTEPS WG Seminar Series is back with a fourth session, with Silke Körber on“Different Shades of ‘Scientific Humanism” 📅December 11, 16.00-17.30 (Venice Time, CET) 🤓Register here: forms.gle/9YJ2PbA58Yro... ℹ️More info: pric.unive.it/projects/sci...

The Nagel-Hempel correspondence has just been published in the Vienna Circle Institute Library. Check it out! link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

🎄 HISTEPS Xmas treat! The recording of our last session with Marianne Janack on Pragmatism & Philosophy of Science is now on YouTube 🎥 👉 youtube.com/watch?v=T84Q... Next session: Jan 15 — see you there!

📢 Pleased to share that my chapter “Bachelardian and Continental Epistemologies” is out in The Routledge Handbook of the History of Philosophy of Science After Kant (Padovani & Tuboly): www.routledge.com/The-Routledg...

Delighted to announce a roundtable discussion of my book Reconsidering Historical Epistemology 🗓️ Feb 2, 2026 📍 Athens (NKUA) Truly honoured - and excited - to have such outstanding scholars engaging with my work. Flyer attached ⬇️

My contribution examines Hacking’s styles of scientific reasoning in relation to Foucault’s archaeology of discourse, focusing on the shift from positivity to truthfulness. I argue the transition is not merely terminological. Happy to share a pre-print!

Happy (and humbled) to see my work cited in Paolo Mancosu’s newly revised SEP entry on Mathematical Style: plato.stanford.edu/entries/math... The entry is a wonderful - and now classic - overview of how “style” has been used in mathematics and philosophy.

Now out in Studies in HPS! 'Artefactualism and the twofold experience of modelling': authors.elsevier.com/a/1mH3%7E8yu... Short article building on the phenomenology of modelling experience as discussed in @msuarez.bsky.social's excellent book, Inference and Representation.

This is happening TODAY: only a few hours left to register and join the conversation on pragmatism and philosophy of science ;)

I’m *very* excited to announce that the special issue of The Monist that I co-edited with Paul Roth is finally out! It includes my new paper alongside a fantastic set of contributions. academic.oup.com/monist/issue... Happy to share a pre-print of my article—just ask!

If you find yourselves in Venice tomorrow, come and say hi! The talk will be followed by beers 🍻

📢 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

Here is the video of #HISTEPS with a great talk by Adam Tuboly, check it out! Next session is on Dec 11: “Pragmatism and Philosophy of Science” with Roberto Gronda (Pisa), Marianne Janack (Hamilton College) and Giancarlo Marchetti (Perugia) Register at this link: forms.gle/YkAFmG7rMraE...

🎉 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”

📝 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]

✨️Full room and dim lights for Peter Galison's lecture on: Author Function in Scientific Collaboration: Around the Event Horizon. 🌌

Happening later TODAY! Few hours left to register ⏳⏰

⚠️Last few hours to register for online participation by sending an email to [email protected] See you this afternoon 🥳

📝 For info and to register for online attendance, please contact [email protected] @mvagelli.bsky.social

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]

📅The first session of the HISTEPS seminar series will take place on October 16, from 16:00 to 17:30 (CET), with Flavia Padovani (Drexel University) presenting “Hans Reichenbach and C.I. Lewis on the Pragmatic A Priori: Cognition and Values.”

🔗 Reach out to @mvagelli.bsky.social for the link via [email protected]

📢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

A short piece on Étienne Wolff - Collège de France administrator from 1966-74, who did experimental research on monsters, wrote his two major books as a prisoner of war, and whose work was read by Georges Canguilhem, Georges Bataille and Michel Foucault progressivegeographies.com/2025/09/21/e...

Many thanks to all who joined #ENPOSS2025 last week! Your contributions made it a truly enriching event 🎉 Follow us to stay updated on upcoming activities and new developments from SCIPLU. More soon!

Here’s the book link for your convenience 😊https://academic.oup.com/book/60508

4/5 And a session chaired by Julie Zahle, with contributions by Giulia Lasagni on 'Entry Mechanisms: Unpacking the Process of Joining Existing Organisations', Aryan Karimi and Rima Wilkes discussing 'What is Assimilation, How Do We Measure it, and How do we Know When it Has Been Achieved?'

#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'

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

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',

See you tomorrow at Palazzo Malcanton-Marcorà of Ca' Foscari University, in Aula Valent and Aula Mazzariol, for more discussions on the Philosophy of Social Sciences, and the presentation of the book 'Science for a Fragile World' with the author, Prof. Robert Northcott 🎉 #ENPOSS2025

And a paper by @ivanboldyrev.bsky.social on 'A Bigger Game: Criticizing Market Design Models' #ENPOSS2025

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';

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

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

5/5 And a paper by @matteomichelini.bsky.social, Eugenio Petrovich and @dbrcrl.bsky.social on 'How Citation Practices Influence Scientific Progress: A Computational Study'

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'

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'

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'

1/4 Day 3 of #ENPOSS2025 begins in a new venue: Palazzo Malcanton-Marcorà, home of Ca' Foscari's Philosophy Department. We kick off with two parallel sessions 🎉 🔗Take a look at the programme of the conference for more info on ENPOSS' last day: enposs.eu/wordpress/wp...

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

Very interesting keynote by Muhammad Ali Khalidi on demarcation between natural and social kinds. At ENPOSS 2025 picturesque setting, Ca’ Foscari, Venice. #philsci

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'

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

A parallel session at #ENPOSS2025 chaired by Matteo Giannasi features insightful papers by Robert Fraser on 'A Theory of (Social) Structural Explanation' and Jens Harbecke on 'Property Supervenience and the Supervenience of Social Science Laws'