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SCIPLU is a three-year EU-funded project led by @mvagelli.bsky.social and hosted at Ca' Foscari University examining the concept of scientific pluralism and defining a new understanding of this concept based on the notion of “style”.
Huge thanks to everyone who joined us yesterday for the second HISTEPS session with Adam Tamas Tuboly 🙌

📅The third session is coming up on Thursday 11/12 with Roberto Gronda, Marianne Janack and Giancarlo Marchetti don’t miss it!

🔗 Check out the full programme: pric.unive.it/projects/sci...
November 7, 2025 at 10:11 AM
📍See the full HISTEPS WG Seminar Series programme below.

🔗 To participate, please fill out this form: forms.gle/ws8fiU8LYvrB...
October 28, 2025 at 1:27 PM
🎉 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”
October 28, 2025 at 1:27 PM
📝 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: sciplu@unive.it
October 15, 2025 at 12:50 PM
✨️Full room and dim lights for Peter Galison's lecture on: Author Function in Scientific Collaboration: Around the Event Horizon. 🌌
October 13, 2025 at 2:24 PM
‼️ Change of venue for the TiPS inaugural lecture with Peter Galison on: Author Function in Scientific Collaboration: Around the Event Horizon.

📅 Monday 13 October at 4 PM (Venice time)
📍Now at Palazzo Cosulich, Fondamenta delle Zattere
October 9, 2025 at 8:20 AM
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: matteo.vagelli@unive.it
October 6, 2025 at 2:10 PM
📢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
October 5, 2025 at 5:55 PM
#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'
September 12, 2025 at 3:17 PM
#ENPOSS2025 is slowly wrapping up with a book symposium featuring prof. Robert Northcott on his latest book, published in 2025: 'Science for a Fragile World', with @mjbuedo.bsky.social and Paul Roth as discussant, and chaired by prof. Eleonora Montuschi.
September 12, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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'
September 12, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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'
September 12, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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'
September 12, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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
September 12, 2025 at 8:46 AM
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
September 12, 2025 at 8:46 AM
2/4 In Aula Valent, a session, chaired by Eugenio Petrovich, featuring papers by Mees van Santen on 'Measuring development: Rethinking the HDI through Co-Production and Political Legitimacy'
#ENPOSS2025
September 12, 2025 at 8:46 AM
And a paper by @ivanboldyrev.bsky.social on 'A Bigger Game: Criticizing Market Design Models'
#ENPOSS2025
September 11, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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';
September 11, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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
September 11, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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',
September 11, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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
September 11, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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
September 11, 2025 at 10:29 AM
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'
September 11, 2025 at 10:07 AM
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'
September 11, 2025 at 8:57 AM
2/3 With contributions by
@jonwilliamson.uk : 'Can Evidential Pluralism Mitigate Bias and Motivated Reasoning?', Alexandra Trofimov on 'How Evidential Pluralism Mitigates Epistemic Injustice in Evidence-Based Evaluation' #ENPOSS2025
September 11, 2025 at 8:30 AM