From yesterday’s conference on Foucault’s 100th anniversary: @mvagelli.bsky.social presenting on Ian Hacking on Foucault and the philosophical abuses of the past.

Many thanks to Prof. Elisabetta Basso and the University of Pavia for this inspiring conference marking Foucault’s 100th anniversary (Thursday, 21 May), and for inviting @mvagelli.bsky.social to speak on Ian Hacking, archaeology, and the philosophical uses and abuses of the past.

🎉 Throwback to last week’s full-house event: “What Science for What Society?” with Jason C. Alexander & Chrysostomos Mantzavinos, and Eleonora Montuschi as a discussant. Great discussion on science & democracy! Many thanks to our speakers and everyone who joined the discussion!

📍If you’re in Venice tomorrow, don’t miss this event organised as part of SCIPLU! What Science for What Society? A roundtable on science & democracy with Jason C. Alexander and Chrysostomos Mantzavinos. 🏛 Ca’ Foscari, Palazzo Malcanton Marcorà 🗓 5 May 2026 | 🕒 14:45–17:30 No registration needed.

La scorsa settimana @mvagelli.bsky.social è stato invitato alla Fondazione De Santillana per un dialogo su “Giorgio de Santillana: mito, scienza e conoscenza”. Grazie alla Fondazione per l’organizzazione di questo bellissimo evento e per l’opportunità! Bellissime anche le foto ricevute! 📸✨

The workshop concludes with a talk by @annaziel.bsky.social on “Ludwik Fleck on Democracy and Objectivity in Sciences,” featuring a vivid description of pre‑war Lviv and its intellectual milieu.

For the third talk of the Fleck in Discussion workshop, Melinda Fagan joined us online with a presentation titled “Fleck and the Pragmatists.”

The second talk today featured @m-de-la-riva.bsky.social on "Habent Sua Fata Libelli: On the Reception of Ludwik Fleck’s Genesis and Development of a Scientific Fact (1935)", followed by a lively Q&A with an engaged audience and Klaus Zittel as discussant.

Starting the Fleck in Discussion workshop with an introduction by @mvagelli.bsky.social and a presentation by Guillermo Címbora Acosta: "Reconsidering Fleck’s Epistemology: From Sociological Reductionism to Pluralistic Historicism"

Thrilled to host the Fleck in Discussion workshop today at Ca' Foscari University organised by @mvagelli.bsky.social. Scholars will discuss Ludwik Fleck’s work and its contemporary relevance. Many thanks to Guillermo Címbora Acosta, @m-de-la-riva.bsky.social, Melinda Fagan & @annaziel.bsky.social !

Il 22 aprile @mvagelli.bsky.social sarà a Venezia, in Giudecca, alla Fondazione De Santillana per un incontro divulgativo: Giorgio de Santillana: mito, scienza e conoscenza 🧠✨ Un grande grazie alla Fondazione per l’invito! 👉 Info e iscrizioni: www.desantillanafoundation.com/currentlyonv...

📽️ The recording of our last HISTEPS session with Sophie Roux and Lucie Fabry is now available on the SCIPLU YouTube channel: youtu.be/_4eCPM6NnEQ?... 🤓 Stay tuned for further updates from the HISTEPS Working Group and from the SCIPLU Project!

Lovely day and truly stimulating discussion yesterday in Cambridge. Thank you to the hosts, the discussants and all the participants for their questions and remarks!

While preparing for tomorrow’s book symposium in Cambridge, I find myself thinking back to the wonderful discussion + the beautiful visit in Athens a few weeks ago. Thank you to all the great discussants, the organizers and the participants I had the privilege to conversate with!

Last session of HISTEPS 25/26 is happening in a few hours today!

🤓📆 Join us on Monday 9 March for the last session of the 2025/2026 HISTEPS Seminar series, with a talk by Lucie Fabry and Sophie Roux on “Authors Meet Critics: Bachelardismes et anti-bachelardismes. Controverses épistémologiques des années 1960” ✍️ To receive the link: forms.gle/JugWrbJsVfbE...

📽️ The recording of March #HISTEPS session is available on YouTube! Many thanks to Matteo Collodel for his talk: Against Authority: Political Roots of P. K. Feyerabend’s Epistemology Our last session will be next Monday 9 March More info here: pric.unive.it/projects/sci... youtu.be/49BvrnWXenE?...

Thrilled that next Wed, March 11 (1–3pm) I’ll be discussing my book at a special CamPoS session in Cambridge. Huge thanks to Hasok Chang & Matt Farr for hosting, and to Cristina Chimisso & Nick Jardine for serving as discussants and providing comments. If you’re around Cambridge, do join us!

Hot off the press! 📚 Heureux de recevoir le denier numéro de Zilsel qui contient un dossier dédié à Hacking auquel j’ai eu le plaisir de contribuer ☕️🙂

⏰ EH11 CFP closes tomorrow (March 2)! Working on current topics in the medical sciences through the lenses of historical epistemology? Don’t miss the deadline — submit now and join us for this Paris edition. Please share! episthist.hypotheses.org

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