MAPS Project

2/2 The conference was organized by the Department of Medical Ethics and History of Medicine, University of Goettingen, Germany.

1/2 Team member George Barimah presented on "Medical AI Regulation and Inductive Risks: A Case by Case Perspective" at the Rethinking AI in Practice – Culture and Ethics’ Role in Shaping the Future of Digital Health Care Technologies Conference.

Welfare Econ faces a core problem: preference endogeneity. What should we do when the yardstick used to assess policies changes with the analysed system? MAPS member @becklukas.bsky.social tackles this issue in the context of large-scale interventions. New paper in Politics, Philosophy & Economics.

This paper is about performativity, power, and wine.

Performative power in science - European Journal for Philosophy of Science Performativity is the capacity of scientific representations (such as models, theories, predictions, or classifications) to alter the phenomena they are supposed to represent. Because one and the same...

Team member Philippe van Basshuysen's paper has just been published: Performative power in Science in the European Journal for Philosophy of Science.

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Armin Schulz, It’s Only Human | BJPS Review of Books Olivier Morin reviews It’s Only Human, by Armin Schulz

New from the BJPS Review of Books

It’s Only Human
– Armin W Schulz

Reviewed by Olivier Morin

Read it here:
www.thebsps.org/reviewofbooks/morin-on-schulz

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Great initiative from @belewollesen.bsky.social (team member of @modeltransfer.bsky.social ). Thank you for inviting us!!!

Team member Matthias Ackermann gave a talk entitled "Predictable Uncertainty’ and Locally Reliable Climate
Change Information" at CELLS Colloquium.
@iphilluh.bsky.social

SOCRATES Fellow Doohyun (Richard) Sung gave a talk titled "Persistence is Futile: On Pursuit and Futility Analysis in Pharmaceutical Research" at the CELLS colloquium @iphilluh.bsky.social

⏰DEADLINE APPROACHING

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 CfP 👇

2/2 Lukas argues that the concept of preference, closely aligned with desire, lies at the core of economics. Yet the nature of economic preferences remains unclear; for instance, are they a form of desire? The chapter presents and critically evaluates the dominant positions on this issue

1/2 Team member @becklukas.bsky.social is sharing his forthcoming chapter (Desire in Economics) in the Routledge Handbook on the Philosophy of Desire.

2/2 ...and his commitment to equilibrium theory. I argue that his account fails to capture macroeconomic modeling and that the methodological limits of microfounded models undermine equilibrium theory as economics’ core framework.

Dan Hausman on macroeconomic models In this critique and exploration of Dan Hausman’s 2023 edition of The Inexact and Separate Science of Economics, I focus on his view of economic models as predicate models and his commitment to equ...

1/2 Team member Nadia Ruiz's paper has just been published: "Dan Hausman on Macroeconomic Models." www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Ruiz critiques Dan Hausman’s 2023 The Inexact and Separate Science of Economics by examining his view of economic models as predicate models ...

2/2 .. I argue that his account fails to capture macroeconomic modeling and that the methodological limits of microfounded models undermine equilibrium theory as economics’ core framework

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 :)

2/2 ... & models reshaping the world they claim to describe. We discuss interactions between these challenges and how they might be met.

1/2 Team member Philippe van Basshuysen and @simonlohse.bsky.social just published "Three Problems for Predictive Policy Advice." Predictive policy advice faces three fundamental challenges: the choice of disciplines providing the advice; value judgments implicit in forecasts;

🔥 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. 👇

Yesterday, Sebastian Meller gave a talk entitled "Olfaction––a forgotten sensory tool? Biomedical perspectives across species boundaries" at the CELLS colloquium.

Last night!!

MAPS' office Performing Hannover's Night Sky

Team member @becklukas.bsky.social gave a talk entitled "Policy Optimization IAMs as Normative Models" at the Institute of Philosophy Colloquium. @iphilluh.bsky.social

Nadia speaking... what a great picture in a great place... rock chalk KU!!!

INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIONES FILOSÓFICAS - UNAM WORKSHOPnine METHODOLOGIES for the use of history IN PHILOSOPHY NOVEMBER 13-14, 2025 KIRSTEN WALSH CUNIVERSITY OF EXETER) JOUNI-MATTI KUUKKANEN CUNIVERSITY OF OULU) ANNA GADIGNANI MARIA CHIARA PARISI EVELYN ERICKSON ANDRÉS VÁZQUEZ-QUIJANO JANIK ROJAS ZAINAB SABRA BOBBY VOS NATALIA ZORRILLA DUBIAN CAÑAS MARÍA MARTÍNEZ-ORDAZ +info: methodologiesfortheuseofhistor@gmail.com

November 14, 2025 • [15:30-17:00 CET || 08:30-10:00 MX] Keynote Talk: "Towards a methodologist integration of history and philosophy of science. Marriage counseling from a pragmatist perspective." Jouni-Matti Kuukkanen (University of Oulu) • [17:00-17:50 CET || 10:00-10:50 MX] "Counterfactual Sufficiency in Historical Explanation: Old and New History in 1948" Zainab Sabra (American University of Beirut) • |17:50-18:00 CET I| 10:50-11:00 MX] MINI-BREAK • [18:00-18:50 CETI 11:00-11:50 MX] "Historical Macro-Units as a Form of Conceptual Engineering" Bobby Vos (University of Cambridge) • [18:50-19:40 CET // 11:50 - 12:40 MX] "Early Modern Feminist Approaches to Misogynistic Bias in the Historical Archive" Natalia Zorrilla (McGill University) • [19:40 -19:50CET || 12:40-12:50 MX] MINI-BREAK • [19:50-20:40 CET// 12:50-13:40 MX] "Idealising the history of science for philosophical purposes" Dubian Cañas. • |20:40-21:30 CET// 13:40-14:30 MX] "Why some inaccurate case studies work? Reflections on the epistemic value of philosophically biased historical reconstructions" María del Rosario Martínez-Ordaz

November 13, 2025 • [16:00-17:30 CET I| 09:00-10:30 MX] Keynote Talk: "Newton's Metaphysics in Practice" Kirsten Walsh (University of Exeter, England) • 17:30-18:20 CET I| 10:30-11:20 MX| "Reconstructing Trust: Social-Historical Trajectories of the Physician-Patient Relationship in Post-Unification Italy" Anna Gadignani (Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies, Italy) • [18:20-18:30 CET I| 11:20-11:30 MX] MINI-BREAK • [18:30-19:20 CETI 11:30-12:20 MX] "Aristotle and Proclus on Mathematics as an Axiomatic Science: A Data-Driven Comparison" Maria Chiara Parisi (University of Amsterdam, NL) • 19:20-20:10 CET // 12:20 - 13:10 MX] "A reply to incommensurability: from historiography to philosophy of logic" Evelyn Erickson (Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil) • [20:10 -20:20CET || 13:10-13:20 MX] MINI-BREAK • [20:20-21:10 CET// 13:20-14:10 MX] "A Meta-Narrativist Approach to the Reconstruction of Internal History: The Autonomy-Continuity Problem" Andrés Vázquez-Quijano (UNAM) • [21:10-22:00 CET// 14:10-15:00 MX] "Problems in the historical study of the intellectual and spiritual contributions of women in classical Islam from a gender perspective" Tzitzi Janik Rojas Torres (UNAM)

Online workshop: Methodologies for use of History in Philosophy, hosted by Instituto de Investigatciones Filosoficas–UNAM, organised by María Martínez-Ordaz @mmartinezordaz.bsky.social & Teresa Rodriguez. Registration free. Complete form to receive zoom link forms.gle/qJRncUDEc254...
#HPS #Philsky

Team member Philippe van Basshuysen gave a talk entitled "Performative Power in Science" at the Institute of Philosophy Colloquium. @iphilluh.bsky.social

Last Monday, Kevin Elliot gave a talk on "Revisiting Values and Science Through the Lens of Reflexive Performativity," which is a paper in collaboration with MAPS team member @jakobortmann.bsky.social.

Congratulations to Edoardo Peruzzi.

Listen to our team member’s talk at the Center for Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh!

#FrontierResearch #ERCStG #ModelTransfer

van Basshuysen asks: When science performs, not just describes—how should we think about it? This paper maps two strategies: one tying performativity to science’s epistemic goals, the other weighing its ethical and social desirability.