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Matteo Vagelli
@mvagelli.bsky.social
Philosopher of science, PI of @scipluproject.bsky.social at Cà Foscari. Former Global Marie Skłodowska Curie Fellow Cà Foscari/Harvard University
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🎉 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
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📝 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]
October 15, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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✨️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
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 🥳
‼️ 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 13, 2025 at 8:58 AM
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⚠️Last few hours to register for online participation by sending an email to [email protected]

See you this afternoon 🥳
‼️ 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 13, 2025 at 8:05 AM
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📝 For info and to register for online attendance, please contact [email protected]

@mvagelli.bsky.social
‼️ 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 8:23 AM
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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]
October 6, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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📅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.”
October 5, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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🔗 Reach out to @mvagelli.bsky.social for the link via [email protected]
October 5, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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📢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
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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
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Étienne Wolff and the biology of monsters – writing as a prisoner of war, Collège de France administrator, and the engagement with his work by Georges Canguilhem, Georges Bataille and Michel Foucault
Étienne Wolff In exploring the histories of professors and their teaching at the Collège de France, I’ve often looked at correspondence between chairs, candidates and the administrator. Administrat…
progressivegeographies.com
September 21, 2025 at 7:53 AM
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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!
September 17, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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Here’s the book link for your convenience 😊https://academic.oup.com/book/60508
September 12, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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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?'
September 12, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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#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
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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
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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
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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
September 11, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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And a paper by @ivanboldyrev.bsky.social on 'A Bigger Game: Criticizing Market Design Models'
#ENPOSS2025
September 11, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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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
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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
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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
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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'
September 12, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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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
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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