MAPS Project

Our super-impressive post-doc @Donal Khosrowi and two of our MA-students
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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.

Team member @becklukas.bsky.social presented "On the Diversity of Models in Normative Inquiry" at the #BSPS2025

@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

HOPOS 2026 Paper and symposium proposals for HOPOS 2026 can now be submitted through this web site. For detailed instructions, plea

Cfp: HOPOS 2026 Sixteenth Biennial Congress of International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science
Ohio State University, Columbus (OH)
22-26 June 2026

Call for paper & symposium proposals. Deadline: 30 September 2025, 11:59 (PT). Submit at congress web site: hopos2026.dryfta.com
#HPS

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

"We explore how some predictive systems not only forecast outcomes but also shape reality, raising ethical questions for developers and policymakers. We highlight a significant gap in research on performative prediction and invite the community to join this critical conversation"

When Predictions are More Than Predictions: Self-Fulfilling Performativity and the Road Towards Morally Responsible Predictive Systems Some predictive systems do not merely predict, but their predictions shape and steer the world towards certain outcomes rather than others; they are performative. When predictive systems are performat...

Group member Philippe van Basshuysen's paper "When Predictions are More Than Predictions: Self-Fulfilling Performativity and the Road Towards Morally Responsible Predictive Systems" has just been accepted for publication
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Joint talk in Hannover on 23 June! #philsci #ebp

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The last two talks of #MAPS2025 symposium were given by @profwilson.bsky.social "Dynamical Causal Modeling and Performativity," and Melissa Vergara Fernández, "On the Influence of Jensen and Meckling's Theory of the Firm."

It was such a great conference, thank you, @mapsproject.bsky.social team!

The second day started with three great talks: Ekaterina Svetlova on "Performativity and ignorance of machine learning
algorithms in finance" @jakobortmann.bsky.social on "But what is Performativity of Science?" and Mayli Martens on "Understanding Performative Prediction"

Yesterday we ended day 1 with Donal Khosrowi's talk "Predicting or Recommending? Negotiating the Proper Roles
for Machine Learning in Scientific Discovery " and Henrik Roed Sherling's talk "Looping Effects are Content-dependent". #MAPS2025

After lunch, we had @ivanboldyrev.bsky.social presentation on "Precursors of Market Design: A Historical Perspective and a Theoretical Afterword." #MAPS2025

The second session went great with the talks of Francesco Guala -Values in scientific forecasting- and Davide Serpico– Making Decisions at Tipping Points: The Case of Addiction. #MAPS2025

It just started!! Thanks for the Welcoming Remarks to Philippe van Basshuysen and @elenapopaphi.bsky.social talk on "Performativity and Population Health Science" #MAPS2025

Looking forward to presenting here tomorrow. I will explore performativity in the context of population health, focusing on how individual vs population-based framing are suited for the purpose of improving overall health.

We hope to see you all tomorrow!!!

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We are pleased to invite you to the MAPS Symposium, taking place on June 4 and 5, 2025, at Koniglicher Pferdestall. Attendance is free and open to all. We have a great lineup! Join us for two days of engaging discussions and critical reflections.

The third article in the special issue Are Social Sciences Special? which @martinkusch.bsky.social and I co-edit is by @federicobrandmayr.bsky.social. It presents results of a large survey of British academics on how they see their own disciplinary identity wrt social sciences #philsci #sts #histsci

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

Join us for the upcoming CELLS research colloquium next Monday, April 28, from 10:15-11:45 am featuring our team member Edoardo Peruzzi! The title of his talk is "The Application of Economic Models in the Courtroom: A Failed Promise?"

Address: Otto-Brenner-Straße 1, Room 1930.A001, LUH

2/2 His work explores how to make justified decisions in complex scenarios, drawing on research from behavioral and welfare economics.

1/2 Meet member @becklukas.bsky.social. He is a philosopher of science who focuses on economic methodology, the intersection between economics and public policy, & the normativity of the behavioral sciences.

Meet team member Matthias Ackermann, who works on philosophy of (climate) science and epistemology. His research explores questions at the intersection of these two areas, particularly in relation to modeling practices.

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

17th Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Humanities goes to Philip Kitcher for his impact as a "humanist intellectual" whose trailblazing work addresses a broad spectrum of the core questions of our time.

The Philosophy of Science Association extends its heartfelt congratulations to Philip Kitcher on receiving the 2025 BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in the Humanities: www.frontiersofknowl...

👉 Check out Catherine Herfeld and Edoardo Peruzzi's paper "No More Than Exchanging Tools: Jacob Marschak and the Early Years of Cross-Disciplinary Interactions Between Economics and the Behavioral Sciences Movement, 1950–1956," now available at the HOPE journal website.

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2/2 Methodological and ethical issues arise when scientific models create self-fulfilling or self-defeating prophecies. The paper reaches an uncomfortable conclusion: paternalist attitudes by scientists often seem unavoidable—unless we abandon these projects entirely (which isn’t advisable).