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Emanuele Ratti

@emratti.bsky.social
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#philsci (AI, biology); #AIEthics data ethics. Senior Lecturer, Department of Philosophy, University of Bristol. Past: Reilly Center at Notre Dame; JKU Linz. PhD: Foundations and Ethics of the Life Sciences, European School of Molecular Medicine (Milan)

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Emanuele Ratti @emratti.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Under which conditions should we rely on #AI models, given all the uncertainties—including opacity—that characterize them? This is the question of our new paper, published in Studies in History and Philosophy of Science. #AI #PhilosophyOfScience #philsky www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 1/7
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What can Artificial Intelligence learn from medicine? Generative analogies and reliable machine learning systems
In the past few years, machine learning (ML) has been widely (and to an extent, successfully) implemented in medicine. However, uncertainties surround…
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The Ramsey Lab @theramseylab.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
New 📄 🚨! #CellBio is teeming with simulations comprising an extraordinarily high number of components. We argue that model complexity will not automatically lead to a better understanding of biological systems & discuss how modeling practices could be repurposed: arxiv.org/abs/2608.06998 #philsci
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Simulating is not always understanding: When model complexity obscures biology
In cell biology, computational models of biological systems range from minimal representations with a handful of parameters to whole-cell simulations tracking thousands of molecular species across a c...
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Emanuele Ratti @emratti.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Happy this is out! Edited by Alan Love @mcps-philsci.bsky.social and Chris Donohue, this is a gem in history, philosophy, and sociology of the life sciences #philsci. The workshop supporting this volume was the most exciting intellectual event I have ever participated in. Honored to be in it!
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Federica Rocky Bocchi @federicabocchi.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Spread the word! Abbiamo inaugurato il network italiano di filosofie delle scienze della vita in pratica (#PIPoLS) e già siamo all'opera con il nostro primo workshop, che si terrà il 17-18 Dicembre al Politecnico di Milano. L'evento é supportato da @ishpssb.bsky.social come #ISHoffyear workshop
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PhilSci-Archive @philsci-archive.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
New on the Archive: Ratti, Emanuele and Ladyman, James and Termine, Alberto (2026) The Modelling Structure of AI-Based Science. [Preprint] philsci-archive.pitt.edu/29886
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Richard Pettigrew @wiglet1981.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
My wonderful colleague Poppy Mankowitz is advertising two 3-yr postdocs & one funded PhD on her ERC project Expressing Value in Language, which investigates evaluative adjectives (‘good’, ‘bad’, ‘beautiful’, ‘tasty’, etc.) from the perspective of philosophy & theoretical & experimental linguistics.
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Rebecca Buxton @rebeccabuxton.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
FULLY FUNDED PHDs IN POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY I'm looking for *two* PhD students to join my ERC project on refugee-led approaches to displacement justice. The positions are funded for four years, and you get to join our lovely community in Bristol. Please share widely! philjobs.org/job/show/30997
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PhD in Political and Social Philosophy, University of Bristol - PhilJobs:JFP PhD in Political and Social Philosophy, University of Bristol
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Ramón Alvarado @ramonalvarado.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
🚨 Our Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy entry on Computer Simulations in Science is now live. It was a lot of work but I’m proud of this substantial update. I hope it helps those in #philsci interested in the philosophical implications of computational methods. plato.stanford.edu/entries/simu...
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Computer Simulations in Science (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
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Emanuele Ratti @emratti.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
New #philsci #philsky paper on #ML and #scientificmodelling! link.springer.com/article/10.1... “Machine learning and theory-ladenness: a phenomenological account” We revisit a widespread assumption in #philsci that modelling practices are inevitably shaped by domain-theoretical knowledge 1/4
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Machine learning and theory-ladenness: a phenomenological account - Synthese
Synthese - We provide an analysis of theory-ladenness in machine learning (ML) in science, where ‘theory’ (that we call ‘domain-theory’) refers to the domain knowledge of...
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Richard Pettigrew @wiglet1981.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
Two-year postdoc position at Bristol on the Leverhulme-funded Foundations of Longtermism project. If there’s someone you know working in moral philosophy, decision theory, or formal epistemology more broadly who might be interested, please do encourage them to apply.
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Emanuele Ratti @emratti.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
🚀Publication alert! How have our conversations about #AIethics in healthcare changed? Where are they headed? Excited to share my paper in BMC #MedicalEthics: “Ethical and social considerations of applying artificial intelligence in healthcare- a two-pronged scoping review” doi.org/10.1186/s129...
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Ethical and social considerations of applying artificial intelligence in healthcare—a two-pronged scoping review - BMC Medical Ethics
Background Artificial Intelligence (AI) is being designed, tested, and in many cases actively employed in almost every aspect of healthcare from primary care to public health. It is by now well establ...
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Emanuele Ratti @emratti.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Reviewer: "what about x, eh? The author does not consider it, checkmate! Oh, I'm so smart, you are so dumb" : rejection. But there is a 4-page section explicitly discussing x. #coolrejections #philsky #philsci #peronirotte
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University of Illinois Press @illinoispress.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
In an open access article in American Philosophical Quarterly 62.1, @emratti.bsky.social & Mark Graves ( @aiandfaith.bsky.social ) conceptualizes AI ethics via the capability approach, to help clarify and guide the ethical considerations of AI design. buff.ly/42YlLHs
Title page of Emanuele Ratti and Mark Graves' article "A Capability Approach to Ethics" in American Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 62, Issue 1, January 2025
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Beth Popp Berman @epopppp.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
1/ I am seeing a lot of comments on the slashing of NIH support along the lines of “universities should just spend their huge endowments.” I’m the last person to cheer on the institutional stratification rising endowments have contributed to. But let me explain why this is not a solution.
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Alisa Bokulich @alisabokulich.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
Here is the Turing centenary conference we organized at BU's Center for Philosophy & History of Science when I was director: www.bu.edu/cphs/colloqu... & the Boston Studies volume Juliet & I edited from conference referenced below: link.springer.com/book/10.1007... #philsky #HPS 🏳️‍🌈
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Philosophical Explorations of the Legacy of Alan Turing
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Emanuele Ratti @emratti.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Happy to share with you the final result of two years of work (with Giuseppe D'Agostino) at the intersection between #PhilSci and #Bioinformatics and recently accepted on Perspectives on Science. philsci-archive.pitt.edu/24609/ (thread below) 1/5
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Beyond 'Trapped Pets' and 'Red Buttons': Bioinformatics as an Experimental Discipline - PhilSci-Archive
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Emanuele Ratti @emratti.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
New paper in American Philosophical Quarterly: A Capability Approach to AI Ethics. We propose a conceptualization of #AIEthics via the capability approach, and show the significant theoretical and concrete benefits of using this approach #PhilTech scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/apq/arti...
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A Capability Approach to AI Ethics
Abstract. We propose a conceptualization and implementation of AI ethics via the capability approach. We aim to show that conceptualizing AI ethics through the capability approach has two main advanta...
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Stefano Canali @stefanocanali.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
Back to the office today at Politecnico, and I had a nice parcel waiting for me – the new Routledge Handbook of Causality and Causal Methods, with my and @emratti.bsky.social chapter on big data for causal inference and competing views on quantity and quality of data. dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781...
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Emanuele Ratti @emratti.bsky.social · 04/07/2024
Just read in a philosopher's book: "In shifting gears on my boat..." - I wish I was an academic 50 years ago #academicsky #philsky
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Emanuele Ratti @emratti.bsky.social · 23/04/2024
JOB ALERT! 3-years position in Bristol, epistemology and philosophy of AI #philsky #philsci #philtech
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Emanuele Ratti @emratti.bsky.social · 03/04/2024
JOB ALERT! Lecturer, 3-years position, Department of Philosophy, UBristol! Teaching position with research time. Must be able to teach Epistemology and Philosophy of AI in particular. Ability to teach Philosophy of Science is a plus #philsky #philsci #philtech philjobs.org/job/show/26130
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Greg Priest @gregpriest.bsky.social · 20/03/2024
Evelyn Fox Keller was born OTD in 1936. “There is no magic lens that will enable us to look at, to see nature unclouded … uncolored by any values, hopes, fears, anxieties, desires, goals that we bring to it." #philsci #histsci #Complexity #STS #WomeninSTEM #Feministsky
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Sabina Leonelli @sabinaleonelli.bsky.social · 15/03/2024
MORE JOBS! Two postdoctoral positions opened up in my Open Science team: 20 months each, start Jan 2025, deadline for applications: May 6. One focused on science policy, the other on inequity in research. Details: [1] portal.mytum.de/jobs/wissens...; [2] portal.mytum.de/jobs/wissens... #philsci
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Emanuele Ratti @emratti.bsky.social · 10/03/2024
When you ask the editor what happened with that paper you have submitted 15 months ago
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Emanuele Ratti @emratti.bsky.social · 01/03/2024
Excited to share that my symposium "Machine learning in science beyond opacity" has been accepted at #PSA24 ! It has been organized with Alessandro Facchini and Alberto Termine (IDSIA Lugano) Juan Durán (Delft), Anais Rameau (Weill Cornell Medicine), Jan-Willem Romeijn and Hanna van Loo (Groningen)
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Emanuele Ratti @emratti.bsky.social · 19/02/2024
A thread: new publication in the journal Science and Engineering Ethics! Read this article if you want to integrate moral and political philosophy in #aiethics modules #philtech #philai #philsky 1/n link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Stefano Canali @stefanocanali.bsky.social · 06/02/2024
I guess it only makes sense that I received my copies of the book the same day of a scheduled blood donation, so I can think about the book in the hospital that looks over my favourite building in Milan (Torre Velasca).
Book titled Conoscere la medicina: Strumenti filosoficiBuilding in Milan called Torre Velasca
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Richard Pettigrew @wiglet1981.bsky.social · 06/02/2024
3-year postdoc position at University of Bristol to work with me on my Foundations of Longtermism project, funded by the Leverhulme Trust! The project will run September 2024 - August 2027. It will focus on the decision-theoretic and ethical foundations for longtermist arguments.
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Emanuele Ratti @emratti.bsky.social · 06/02/2024
New paper in the EJPS with Federica Russo! The science and values literature largely pays attention to how values influence science; here we show, with examples from medicine and AI, how scientific concepts and methods too can promote some values rather than others link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Emanuele Ratti @emratti.bsky.social · 26/01/2024
When you get R&R after revising a paper #academia #philsci #philsky
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Sjang ten Hagen @sjangtenhagen.bsky.social · 09/01/2024
What qualities make a good scientist, according to scientists? In our latest paper in @historyofscience.bsky.social (with Kim Hajek and Herman Paul), we explore how postwar American historians, psychologists, and physicists responded to this question. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Richard Pettigrew @wiglet1981.bsky.social · 17/11/2023
Has anyone traced how the move towards rigorization of geometry and real analysis in the 19th century, and the movement away from appeals to geometric intuition, parallels the move towards objectivity in science that Daston and Galison describe? #philsky #histsky #histsci #philsci
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Sean Hannan @seanhannan.bsky.social · 10/11/2023
The Humanities Department at MacEwan University (in which department I happen to work) is looking to hire a tenure-track Assistant Professor in the History and Philosophy of Science. Details here: www.macewan.ca/about-macewa...
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Jeroen de Ridder @jeroenderidder.bsky.social · 10/11/2023
My dept is hiring an Assistant Professor in Research Integrity and Philosophy of Science / Ethics. Please share widely with anyone who may be interested. Apply until Dec. 3, 2023. Feel free to get in touch if you have questions. workingat.vu.nl/ad/assistant...
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Assistant Professor in Philosophy of Science and Research Integrity / Ethics - 4. Working at VU
Location: AMSTERDAM FTE: 1 Job description The department of philosophy has a vacancy for an assistant professor in philosophy of science and research integrity or research ethics. Areas of specialisa...
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Emanuele Ratti @emratti.bsky.social · 08/11/2023
When in the editorial manager the status of your paper changes to "Decision in process" #AcademicSky
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Emanuele Ratti @emratti.bsky.social · 07/11/2023
Job alert! 30 months lecturer position in the department of philosophy at the University of Bristol. Teaching aoc in phil mind (AI included) and phil medicine. #philsky #philsci www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DDW575/l...
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Lecturer in Philosophy at University of Bristol
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Emanuele Ratti @emratti.bsky.social · 05/11/2023
Just moved here! Thanks @alisabokulich.bsky.social ! I'm a Lecturer at the University of Bristol, interested in the relation between AI and biology, and data ethics
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