Matteo Vagelli

I’m *very* excited to announce that the special issue of The Monist that I co-edited with Paul Roth is finally out!

It includes my new paper alongside a fantastic set of contributions.

academic.oup.com/monist/issue...

Happy to share a pre-print of my article—just ask!

If you find yourselves in Venice tomorrow, come and say hi! The talk will be followed by beers 🍻

📢 Are you in Venice next week?
Join us for @mvagelli.bsky.social 's talk:
“What’s in It for the (Scientific) Pluralist? Styles of Reasoning between Disunity and Integration”

📆 Wednesday, December 3 | 17:30–19:00
📍 Ca’ Foscari University, Palazzo Malcanton Marcorà, Aula Biral

Here is the video of #HISTEPS with a great talk by Adam Tuboly, check it out!

Next session is on Dec 11:

“Pragmatism and Philosophy of Science” with Roberto Gronda (Pisa), Marianne Janack (Hamilton College) and Giancarlo Marchetti (Perugia)

Register at this link: forms.gle/YkAFmG7rMraE...

🎉 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”

📝 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

✨️Full room and dim lights for Peter Galison's lecture on: Author Function in Scientific Collaboration: Around the Event Horizon. 🌌

Happening later TODAY! Few hours left to register ⏳⏰

⚠️Last few hours to register for online participation by sending an email to Matteo.vagelli@unive.it

See you this afternoon 🥳

📝 For info and to register for online attendance, please contact matteo.vagelli@unive.it

@mvagelli.bsky.social

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

📅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.”

🔗 Reach out to @mvagelli.bsky.social for the link via matteo.vagelli@unive.it

📢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

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…

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'