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'

Getting started with day 2 of #ENPOSS25 at Università Ca' Foscari Venezia Dipartimento di Filosofia e Beni Culturali - Università Ca' Foscari Venezia Traffic is heavy in the Canal @scipluproject.bsky.social

2/2 And a paper by Helena Slanickova on 'Blind Spots and Tunnel Vision in Policy Decision Structuring: Lessons Learned From Critical Contextual Empiricism' 🎉 See you tomorrow for more discussions on Philosophy and Social Sciences at Ca' Foscari University #ENPOSS2025

1/2 The final session of Day 1 at #ENPOSS2025 is chaired by @catemar.bsky.social and features papers by @alessandrabasso.bsky.social on 'Values and Trustworthiness in Economic Inequality Metrics', by Emanuele Martinelli on 'An Agent-based Approach to the Limits of Economic Planning' ➡️

2/2 A paper by Roberto Fumagalli on 'A Defence of Preference-Based Approaches to Welfare Evaluations in Public Policy', and a contribution by Malvina Ongaro, @chiffi.bsky.social and Lorenza Petrini on the 'Role for Cost-benefit Analysis in Public Decision-making' #ENPOSS2025

1/2 More insightful contributions this afternoon at #ENPOSS2025 in a session chaired by Paul Roth, with papers on 'Disentangling Constitutive Explanations in the Social Sciences' by @ylikoskip.bsky.social and Joonatan Nõgisto ➡️

Muhammad Ali Khalidi asks: 'Wherein Are Social Kinds Normative?' In his keynote speech chaired by @mvagelli.bsky.social at #ENPOSS2025, followed by a lively Q&A session.

In another room at Ca' Foscari University, a parallel session chaired by Julie Zahle features papers by Sofia Blanco Sequeiros on evidence-informed policy, Thodoris Dimitrakos on norms in social phenomena, and Patrizio Caldara on Latour & anthropocentrism. 🔗Info: enposs.eu #ENPOSS2025

Starting ENPOSS conference with a session chaired by Paul Roth featuring a paper by Martin Palacek and Mark Risjord, followed by a symposium on "Understanding and Explaining Evil and Extremism" with contributions from @emiliecaspar.bsky.social, Carsten Stueber, and Raphael Kunstler. ##ENPOSS2025

🌧️ We're thrilled to kick off the ENPOSS 2025 Annual Conference at Ca' Foscari University under Venice’s rainy skies! Looking forward to three days of rich discussions 🎉 Take a look at the program and the abstracts here: enposs.eu #ENPOSS2025

Staunch Canguilhemian 🫡😄

My new project at Cà Foscari is getting off the ground! Follow @scipluproject.bsky.social for all the updates 🚀

Mi fa molto piacere trovare la recensione del mio "Pensare Wittgenstein" (ECF 2024) nell'ultimo numero del Giornale critico della filosofia italiana. Grazie Luca Guzzardi per l'attenta lettura! www.lelettere.it/libro/24005-...

Correlatore di una bella tesi oggi a Pisa

My book with @springernature.com turns 1 yo today! Grateful for this journey—the vibrant discussions I’ve had with friends & colleagues at Cambridge, Padova, Honk Kong, Pavia & elsewhere, where I was invited to present & debate ideas from the book.

⏰👇This big boy (50 chapters!) Will be out soon 😮 Very happy to have contributed a chapter on Bachelard and continental epistemologies. Thanks Adam Tuboly and Flavia Padovani for putting it together! www.routledge.com/The-Routledg...

Giving a talk at the University of Vienna in less than 2 hours from now, wish me good luck ☘️

It was a real pleasure to take part in last week’s conference in Dallas (photos available at the link below). Many thanks to Jon Tsou for organizing the event and for being such a generous host! values.utdallas.edu/2025/05/27/2...

This is happening tomorrow!

Still processing the privilege of joining Peter Galison’s 70th Orbit | "Celebrating Collaborations" at Harvard last week. All this unfolding as Harvard stands up to federal pressure. A stark reminder of how vital global, open intellectual exchange is.

Chrys Mantzavinos (University of Athens) is visiting the University of Pisa next week and he is going to present & discuss his latest book “The Constitution of Science” (Cambridge University Press, 2024). Come and join the conversation if you are in the area!

Excited to co-edit a Special Issue of The Monist on Ian Hacking’s philosophy with Paul Roth! 🔍 9 essays exploring his wide-ranging work. Coming later this year—can’t wait to share the stellar lineup! academic.oup.com/monist

At the University of Pisa tomorrow (Wednesday, May 7) we welcome Marco Nathan (Denver) for a talk titled "Scientism: Threat or Red Herring". Poster attached! If interested and in the area come and join the conversation.

Jouni-Matti Kuukkanen is in Pisa and will give a talk tomorrow!

Last reminder: submission is open until Saturday, March 15!

Oggi pomeriggio a Bologna! Oppure su Teams :)

Vabbè siamo ancora a inizio anno...a marzo c'è temp..ah no. Ok, poco più di due settimane e sto a Bologna per la cosa qua sotto. Felicissimo dell'invito e di ritrovare il caro @Paolo Savoia :) Amici bolognesi hit me up!

This is happening in slightly more than 1h (10 am CET). You can join online via QR code!