As data-driven research reshapes global science, industry, and governance, a critical question remains: how do we ensure that the infrastructures we build are both technologically robust and socially ...

Angela Potochnik and Melissa Jacquart. 2025. Public engagement with science: defining the project. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. This book is the ...

This paper traces the intellectual lineage of the idea of openness as a guiding principle for scientific inquiry within democratic societies. To this aim, it contrasts Henri Bergson’s and Karl Popper’...

This paper discusses three forms of structural injustice associated with disparities in the resources available to researchers, and the opportunity researchers have to pursue their scientific goals...

ISHPSSB 2027

This open access book is self-standing as the only substantive anthology of writings centered on John Dupre’s work.

This paper considers cases where AI is used to automate tasks perceived to be “mere routine” and inconvenient to researchers. We term such uses “Convenience AI” and characterise the set of assumptions...

Between explaining and understanding: Rethinking AI explainability in medical diagnostics - Volume 2

Biology & Philosophy - This paper considers the continued use of simpler model organisms in newer forms of toxicological research in order to inform philosophical understandings of the...

In the context of the Excellence Project TECHNE funded by the Ministry of University and Research (MUR), PhilTech will host Prof. Sabina Leonelli (Technische Universitaet Muenchen) as Senior Visiting Research from February to April 2026. During her stay, Prof. Leonelli will offer a series of seminars with title “Data-Intensive Responsible AI”: 12/02: Data ecosystems: Reconceptualising […]