Catherine Herfeld
@cherfeld.bsky.social
Professor of Philosophy and History of Economics at Leibniz University Hannover; ERC project (2023-29) on MODEL TRANSFER in Science (#ERCStGr; @ERC_research), co-editor of the Journal of the History of Economic Thought
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Catherine Herfeld
@cherfeld.bsky.social
· Nov 24
Welcome to the Bluesky account of the ERC-funded project “MODEL TRANSFER and its Challenges in Science: The Case of Economics.” The project, led by Catherine Herfeld, is hosted by the Institute of Philosophy at the Leibniz University Hannover.
Our webpage:
model-transfer.uni-hannover.de/en/
Our webpage:
model-transfer.uni-hannover.de/en/
Homepage – MODEL TRANSFER: Model Transfer and its Challenges in Science: The Case of Economics – Leibniz Universität Hannover
model-transfer.uni-hannover.de
My ERC Project MODEL TRANSFER on bluesky!
🙏 I hope it will be ready for Christmas🎄!
Forthcoming: Conversations on Rational Choice, edited by Catherine Herfeld
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November 22, 2025 at 12:54 PM
🙏 I hope it will be ready for Christmas🎄!
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Enjoyed reading 'Debating rational choice' in the new RES newsletter from @cherfeld.bsky.social. 'Conversations on Rational Choice' looks like a really interesting book. Our limited contribution to this conversation has been our play 'Rational'! #EconSky podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/r...
November 21, 2025 at 11:37 AM
Enjoyed reading 'Debating rational choice' in the new RES newsletter from @cherfeld.bsky.social. 'Conversations on Rational Choice' looks like a really interesting book. Our limited contribution to this conversation has been our play 'Rational'! #EconSky podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/r...
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Join us for the Inaugural Conference of the new Forum #Wissenschaftsreflexion in June 2026! Early-Career Researchers can still apply for a dedicated workshop that covers travel & accomodation costs. #PhilSci #PhilSky #HPS #STS #SocSky @mapsproject.bsky.social @modeltransfer.bsky.social
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 :)
👉 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 :)
November 19, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Join us for the Inaugural Conference of the new Forum #Wissenschaftsreflexion in June 2026! Early-Career Researchers can still apply for a dedicated workshop that covers travel & accomodation costs. #PhilSci #PhilSky #HPS #STS #SocSky @mapsproject.bsky.social @modeltransfer.bsky.social
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🔥 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. 👇
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. 👇
November 19, 2025 at 11:17 AM
🔥 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. 👇
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. 👇
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"Quiet, piggy!"
November 19, 2025 at 8:33 AM
"Quiet, piggy!"
What a treat to spend time at the Rockefeller Archives and in NYC after a great workshop on internal conflicts in economics and biology at the University of Kansas! #erc_research #modeltransfer
November 19, 2025 at 7:45 AM
What a treat to spend time at the Rockefeller Archives and in NYC after a great workshop on internal conflicts in economics and biology at the University of Kansas! #erc_research #modeltransfer
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Long read but excellent paper:
Don Ross - Scientific metaphysics and social science
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Don Ross - Scientific metaphysics and social science
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Scientific metaphysics and social science - Synthese
Recently, philosophers have developed an extensive literature on social ontology that applies methods and concepts from analytic metaphysics. Much of this is entirely abstracted from, and unconcerned ...
link.springer.com
November 18, 2025 at 9:39 AM
Long read but excellent paper:
Don Ross - Scientific metaphysics and social science
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Don Ross - Scientific metaphysics and social science
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Our PI, @cherfeld.bsky.social, is giving a talk today on model transfer and its challenges in science at the University of Kansas, as part of the workshop “From Biology to Economics and Back: Internal Conflicts and Collective Agency Across Disciplines."
collectiveagents.weebly.com/schedule.html
collectiveagents.weebly.com/schedule.html
November 5, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Our PI, @cherfeld.bsky.social, is giving a talk today on model transfer and its challenges in science at the University of Kansas, as part of the workshop “From Biology to Economics and Back: Internal Conflicts and Collective Agency Across Disciplines."
collectiveagents.weebly.com/schedule.html
collectiveagents.weebly.com/schedule.html
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CfP: for a special issue on Quantitative Methods and Data in the History, Philosophy, and Methodology of Economics
journals.openedition.org/oeconomia/19...
journals.openedition.org/oeconomia/19...
October 27, 2025 at 3:04 PM
CfP: for a special issue on Quantitative Methods and Data in the History, Philosophy, and Methodology of Economics
journals.openedition.org/oeconomia/19...
journals.openedition.org/oeconomia/19...
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The HISRECO conference was a blast! Some new exciting people, old friends, thoughtful conversations, and still another reason for me to be fascinated with this field
October 26, 2025 at 8:51 AM
The HISRECO conference was a blast! Some new exciting people, old friends, thoughtful conversations, and still another reason for me to be fascinated with this field
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Check out the schedule of the online conference PSA Around the World Eastern Europe (pm of Nov 6,14,22). A collaboration between @philsci.bsky.social and @eenphilsci.bsky.social it showcases #philsci from, about, and otherwise connected to the region. Wonderful names and titles, looking forward!
www.philsci.org
October 17, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Check out the schedule of the online conference PSA Around the World Eastern Europe (pm of Nov 6,14,22). A collaboration between @philsci.bsky.social and @eenphilsci.bsky.social it showcases #philsci from, about, and otherwise connected to the region. Wonderful names and titles, looking forward!
🔥 Our team members Murat Bakeev and Edoardo Peruzzi are busy this month w presenting their ideas at HISRECO & Pittsburg's center for philosophy of science (links👇). Meanwhile, I am looking forward to my visit to the Uni Kansas for a talk at the Conference From Biology to Economics and Back Again!
October 21, 2025 at 1:38 PM
🔥 Our team members Murat Bakeev and Edoardo Peruzzi are busy this month w presenting their ideas at HISRECO & Pittsburg's center for philosophy of science (links👇). Meanwhile, I am looking forward to my visit to the Uni Kansas for a talk at the Conference From Biology to Economics and Back Again!
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October 16, 2025 at 10:01 AM
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Save the Date: JUNE 8–12, 2026.
Fourth Lake Como Summer School in Philosophy of Economics.
Villa del Grumello, Como, Italy.
Sponsored by INEM, the University of Insubria, and the University of Milan.
More information forthcoming.
@catemar.bsky.social
@rseri.me
Fourth Lake Como Summer School in Philosophy of Economics.
Villa del Grumello, Como, Italy.
Sponsored by INEM, the University of Insubria, and the University of Milan.
More information forthcoming.
@catemar.bsky.social
@rseri.me
September 26, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Save the Date: JUNE 8–12, 2026.
Fourth Lake Como Summer School in Philosophy of Economics.
Villa del Grumello, Como, Italy.
Sponsored by INEM, the University of Insubria, and the University of Milan.
More information forthcoming.
@catemar.bsky.social
@rseri.me
Fourth Lake Como Summer School in Philosophy of Economics.
Villa del Grumello, Como, Italy.
Sponsored by INEM, the University of Insubria, and the University of Milan.
More information forthcoming.
@catemar.bsky.social
@rseri.me
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I hope philosophers of science will chime in on the Prize Committee's discussion about kinds of knowledge, and its dissemination, as drivers of innovation and competition: www.nobelprize.org/uploads/2025... #PhilSci #NobelPrize
October 13, 2025 at 10:17 AM
I hope philosophers of science will chime in on the Prize Committee's discussion about kinds of knowledge, and its dissemination, as drivers of innovation and competition: www.nobelprize.org/uploads/2025... #PhilSci #NobelPrize
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CfP for a Workshop on "Scientific Progress via Model Transfer? The Case of Cultural Evolution", April 2026 in Hannover 👇 #philsci #philsky
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 👇
"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 👇
October 13, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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Are you curious about what computational methods can offer to #HPS? Then check out the edited volume by Grant Ramsey & @andreasdeblock.bsky.social, published by @upittpress.bsky.social, showcasing key tools, questions, and investigative perspectives 👇📕💻 upittpress.org/books/978082... #philsky #DH
October 13, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Are you curious about what computational methods can offer to #HPS? Then check out the edited volume by Grant Ramsey & @andreasdeblock.bsky.social, published by @upittpress.bsky.social, showcasing key tools, questions, and investigative perspectives 👇📕💻 upittpress.org/books/978082... #philsky #DH
Reposted by Catherine Herfeld
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 👇
"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 👇
October 13, 2025 at 10:24 AM
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 👇
"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 👇
Reposted by Catherine Herfeld
Our two-day online workshop has wrapped up. Huge thanks to everyone who joined and contributed to the lively discussions!
These discussions tackled some core challenges for those using computational methods in the history & philosophy of economics 👇
@erc.europa.eu #FrontierResearch #ERCStG
These discussions tackled some core challenges for those using computational methods in the history & philosophy of economics 👇
@erc.europa.eu #FrontierResearch #ERCStG
October 10, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Our two-day online workshop has wrapped up. Huge thanks to everyone who joined and contributed to the lively discussions!
These discussions tackled some core challenges for those using computational methods in the history & philosophy of economics 👇
@erc.europa.eu #FrontierResearch #ERCStG
These discussions tackled some core challenges for those using computational methods in the history & philosophy of economics 👇
@erc.europa.eu #FrontierResearch #ERCStG
🔥 Our workshop on computational methods in history and philosophy of economics just started! Two days of great talks and interesting discussions ahead!
We’re excited to announce the third workshop in our series, Computational Approaches in History and Philosophy of Economics!
This online event will take place on October 9–10, exploring how computational methods can be applied in the history and philosophy of economics.
This online event will take place on October 9–10, exploring how computational methods can be applied in the history and philosophy of economics.
October 9, 2025 at 10:19 AM
🔥 Our workshop on computational methods in history and philosophy of economics just started! Two days of great talks and interesting discussions ahead!
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The Leibniz Center for Science and Society (LCSS) at @unihannover.bsky.social invites international researchers in science studies & higher educ research to apply for the fellowship program “Disruptions in Science and Society” (research stays: 1–18 months).
www.lcss.uni-hannover.de/en/fellowshi...
www.lcss.uni-hannover.de/en/fellowshi...
October 8, 2025 at 8:58 AM
The Leibniz Center for Science and Society (LCSS) at @unihannover.bsky.social invites international researchers in science studies & higher educ research to apply for the fellowship program “Disruptions in Science and Society” (research stays: 1–18 months).
www.lcss.uni-hannover.de/en/fellowshi...
www.lcss.uni-hannover.de/en/fellowshi...
🔥 We have a great #ERC_Research workshop this week on Computational Methods in History and Philosophy of Economics organized by Murat Bakeev. Our team gives presentations on how to study #ModelTransfers with network analysis, simulations, & knowledge graphs (co-authored w Simon Walo & Malte Doehne).
We’re excited to announce the third workshop in our series, Computational Approaches in History and Philosophy of Economics!
This online event will take place on October 9–10, exploring how computational methods can be applied in the history and philosophy of economics.
This online event will take place on October 9–10, exploring how computational methods can be applied in the history and philosophy of economics.
October 7, 2025 at 7:23 AM
🔥 We have a great #ERC_Research workshop this week on Computational Methods in History and Philosophy of Economics organized by Murat Bakeev. Our team gives presentations on how to study #ModelTransfers with network analysis, simulations, & knowledge graphs (co-authored w Simon Walo & Malte Doehne).
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Just came out of two hours of teaching early humans and primates to hear that Jane Goodall has sadly died. The legacy and impact of this human is beyond measure. She brought us closer to each other, closer to primates and face to face with our evolutionary inheritance.
October 1, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Just came out of two hours of teaching early humans and primates to hear that Jane Goodall has sadly died. The legacy and impact of this human is beyond measure. She brought us closer to each other, closer to primates and face to face with our evolutionary inheritance.
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I had a rich and wide-ranging conversation w/ Professor Philip Kitcher for the podcast this week.
We discuss his intellectual journey, interventions in creationism, sociobiology & the genome project, his philosophical evolution, and vision for philosophy serving the common good. A real privilege.
We discuss his intellectual journey, interventions in creationism, sociobiology & the genome project, his philosophical evolution, and vision for philosophy serving the common good. A real privilege.
S5 E8 - Philip Kitcher on Philosophy for Science and the Common Good
Podcast Episode · The HPS Podcast - Conversations from History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science · 11/09/2025 · 48m
podcasts.apple.com
September 12, 2025 at 3:17 PM
I had a rich and wide-ranging conversation w/ Professor Philip Kitcher for the podcast this week.
We discuss his intellectual journey, interventions in creationism, sociobiology & the genome project, his philosophical evolution, and vision for philosophy serving the common good. A real privilege.
We discuss his intellectual journey, interventions in creationism, sociobiology & the genome project, his philosophical evolution, and vision for philosophy serving the common good. A real privilege.
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We were delighted to share our research at the #ModelTransfer Symposium at the #INEM conference! Huge thanks to @unibayreuth.bsky.social and the organizers for hosting such a stimulating event that brings together so many in the philosophy of economics community.
#FrontierResearch #ERCStG
#FrontierResearch #ERCStG
September 24, 2025 at 1:04 PM
We were delighted to share our research at the #ModelTransfer Symposium at the #INEM conference! Huge thanks to @unibayreuth.bsky.social and the organizers for hosting such a stimulating event that brings together so many in the philosophy of economics community.
#FrontierResearch #ERCStG
#FrontierResearch #ERCStG