Philosophy goes public: Last saturday, led by members of the #SOCRATESgroup, we participated at the Hannover-wide event #NachtDieWissenSchafft.

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

Wie lässt sich unter Bedingungen großer Unsicherheit gerecht handeln? Prof. Dr. Mathias Frisch @mathias07.bsky.social beleuchtet bei der #NachtDieWissenSchafft in #Hannover, welche ethischen Verpflichtungen die #Klimakrise für gegenwärtige und zukünftige Generationen aufwirft. Diskutieren Sie mit!

Team member Philippe van Basshuysen gave a talk entitled "Performative Power in Science" at the Institute of Philosophy Colloquium. @iphilluh.bsky.social

🌍„Grüne Energie“ ist nicht automatisch gerecht. Was bedeutet #Nachhaltigkeit, wenn Rohstoffe & #Menschenrechte auf dem Spiel stehen? Diskutieren Sie mit bei der #NachtDieWissenSchafft in #Hannover mit Prof. Dr. Dietmar Hübner & Rainer Baake, Gründungsdirektor der Stiftung Klima!

Meet the #SOCRATESgroup fellows!👋 Roderik Rekker (Radboud Univ.) studies the stability of #PoliticalAttitudes & political polarization, explores the #politicisation of trust in experts & the role of politicians and scientists in this process. #PolSci #PhilSci #TrustInScience t1p.de/vfitl

❓Warum braucht Demokratie unabhängige Wissenschaft? Was können Universitäten tun, um: 👉Politisierung entgegenzuwirken? 👉 grundlegende institutionelle Regeln zu schützen? Diskutieren Sie mit - in #Hannover an der #NachtDieWissenSchafft beim Vortrag von Prof. Dr. Torsten Wilholt!

Photo highlights from yesterday’s talk by Edoardo Peruzzi in Pittsburgh (credit: @center4philsci.bsky.social)! #FrontierResearch #ERCStG #ModelTransfer #LTT #CenterPhilSci Watch the recording on YouTube: www.youtube.com/live/A73Ifkf...

Meet the #SOCRATESgroup fellows!👋 Kevin Elliott, Red Cedar Distinguished Professor at Michigan State Univ., returns to SOCRATES for his 2nd stay. He'll focus on how philosophical discussions on values in science can inform #ScienceEducation. #Philsci #EpistemicInjustice t1p.de/bfjf8

Meet the #SOCRATESgroup fellows!👋 Julie Zahle is a philosopher of the social sciences studying social practices & qualitative research. At SOCRATES, she examines how qualitative data can support causal claims & strategies to secure trustworthiness in research. #TrustInScience #philsci t1p.de/ohs05

Any recommendations for #ArgumentMapping tools, #philsky ?

Call for papers: Ian Hacking and the Philosophy of Psychiatry. Deadline: 1st February 2026. Guest editors: Şerife Tekin and Jonathan Y. Tsou. Submit your work! think.taylorandfranc... #philsky #philpsy #philsci

Our new team photo! #ModelTransfer #ERCStG

Meet the #SOCRATESgroup fellows!👋 Gabriel Târziu studies #publicunderstanding of science & the impact of values on layperson's epistemic stances. He develops a framework for how people interpret scientific info, with a focus on #climatescience: t1p.de/rs3k2 #TrustInScience #philsci #philsky

Two upcoming talks on #ModelTransfer 👇 #philsky

The PSA Around the World 2025 is coming soon: Nov 6, 14 & 22 (online)! Hosted by @philsci.bsky.social and @eenphilsci.bsky.social it highlights #philsci from, about, and connected to Central and Eastern Europe. Great lineup, still time to register! www.philsci.org/psa_around_t...

Meet the #SOCRATESgroup fellows!👋 Alice Wheatley is an epistemologist studying the nature and value of #scientificunderstanding. At SOCRATES, she investigates whether this is the aim of #sciencecommunication: t1p.de/xx9cy #Philsci #Philsky #epistemology #trustinscience

New paper on performativity by three former members of our institute! @iphilluh.bsky.social dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

Meet the #SOCRATESgroup fellows!👋 Francesco Nappo (Politecnico di Milano) studies #scientificmodelling and its role in #publicpolicy. He investigates the strengths and limits of economic models for #climatemitigation and approaches guiding rapid energy transitions: t1p.de/k3nt1 #PhilSci #Philsky

CfP for a Workshop on "Scientific Progress via Model Transfer? The Case of Cultural Evolution", April 2026 in Hannover 👇 #philsci #philsky

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

Meet the #SOCRATESgroup fellows!👋 Ezgi Sertler examines how institutions shape knowledge & ignorance. At SOCRATES, she will develop an institutional epistemology to study neutrality, diversity & social credibility: t1p.de/1o4vi #Epistemology #TrustInScience #FeministPhilosophy #philsky #philsci

✊ "Forschend statt frustriert: Geisteswissenschaftliches Schreiben trotz & mit KI – Teil 2" 📝 von Inga Gostmann & Lea Hildermeier (Bielefeld) 🤖 Beitrag zum Themenschwerpunkt: Künstliche Intelligenz in der philosophischen Hochschullehre #KI #LLMs 👉 jetzt auf lehrgut.org

#Job #PhilSci #HPS Fully funded PhD-position at Bielefeld University, Philosophy of the Biomedical Sciences), deadline Oct 30, 2025 Job ad: uni-bielefeld.hr4you.org/job/view/451... On the program: blogs.uni-bielefeld.de/blog/isosnew...

✨Don't forget✨ PSA Office Hours are back! Join us this Thursday, October 9 at 12 PM EST with S. Andrew Schroeder. Sign up at the link below to save your spot! www.philsci.org/psa_...

Meet the #SOCRATESgroup fellows!👋 Jon Leefmann studies public #TrustInScience as a collective practice of managing doubt. He develops new models for how societies can cultivate and maintain trust in #ScientificKnowledge: t1p.de/bs3p9 #SocialEpistemology #ScienceEthics #philsci #philsky

Interested in #PhilosophyOfBiology? Check out the new Cambridge Elements on "The Scope of Evolutionary Thinking" by @thomasreydon.bsky.social. Available #OpenAccess here: www.cambridge.org/core/element... #philsci #philsky #evobio

With the new term about to start, we are delighted to welcome a new cohort of #SOCRATESgroup fellows! Over the coming weeks, we will be introducing them here. For more information about the program, please visit: www.socrates.uni-hannover.de/en/ #philsci #philsky #trustinscience

Meet the #SOCRATESgroup fellows!👋 Prof. Anke Bueter (Aarhus University) joined us in August. She works on philosophy of medicine, psychiatry & feminist philosophy of science. She’s writing on the #trustworthiness of #psychiatry: t1p.de/l296c #trustinscience #philsci #philsky

Meet the #SOCRATESgroup fellows!👋 Doohyun Sung is a philosopher specialising in the #socialepistemology of biomedical sciences. He studies regulatory approvals & works on epistemology, ethics & metaphysics of toxicology: t1p.de/wsc81 #PhilosophyOfScience #trustinscience

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/...

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 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...

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.

Job Opening at the Chair of Philosophy and History of Science and Technology at TUM! Research Fellow for 3 years (renewable). Preferably philosopher w interest in plant, crop & agricultural research (& their history and social studies) All details: www.sts.sot.tum.de/en/sts/arbei... #philsci #sts

@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

The Forum Wissenschaftsreflexion (Forum for Scientific Reflection) at #LUH (@unihannover.bsky.social‬) will host a workshop for early career researchers on June 18, 2026, as part of its opening conference. Applications are due by October 31, 2025. Details: www.lcss.uni-hannover.de/en/events/ev...

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

How to represent and communicate uncertainty in climate science and other policy-relevant research? Workshop Making Sense of Uncertainty in Science and Policy is starting at the SOCRATES research group at @iphilluh.bsky.social Organized by Margherita Harris, Joe Roussos, Leonie Wiemeyer #philsci

⏳Deadline approaching! Know any early-career scholars working on philosophy of econ or values in science? Please consider forwarding them our call for proposals at phil-econ-model-lab.org. We are assembling a group of young scholars to collaborate at the cutting-edge of these topics #philsi #econ

Can't quite get myself to listen to this, but here's the interview that Carrie Figdor did with me on my recent book newbooksnetwork.com/operationism... @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social #philsci, #philosophy, #psychology, #HPS, #HOPOS, #metascience

We are happy to welcome @belewollesen.bsky.social in Hannover as part of the Model transfer ERC project @modeltransfer.bsky.social! #AImodels #philsky #philecon

Today I taught the paper on “memory transfer” by the great @davidcolaco.bsky.social in my class at @iphilluh.bsky.social . The was phil sci at its best: general conceptual work (what is a scientific phenomenon?) with a concrete historical case on interesting science, a normative angle 1/2

Would you like to teach philosophy of science and technology in Vienna? #philosophy #STS jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Senior-L...

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

Meet team member Dr. George Kwasi Barimah. He is an associate member of the DFG-funded Centre for Advanced Studies -"SOCRATES" @iphilluh.bsky.social. George's research interests are in public health ethics, social epistemology, trust in science, and science communication

#PhDpositions #philjobs #philsky #HPS

Du bekommst eine verdiente Beförderung nicht. Vielleicht, weil Dein Chef Dich nicht mag - oder weil Du eine Frau bist. Macht das einen Unterschied?⚖️ Diskutiert mit #denXte & Prof. Dr. Christine Bratu (@unigoettingen.bsky.social) zu #Gerechtigkeit & moralischer Bewertung! 👉24.4.25, 19 Uhr im HdU 1/2

Ethics of AI post-doc opportunity with an experimental angle, w/ my colleague Ophelia Deroy & her team (@opheliaderoy.bsky.social). Please share w/ anybody who might be interested: job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/d... #aiethics #postdoc #xphi (Ping @xphilosopher.bsky.social perhaps you know someone?)