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SCIPLU is a three-year EU-funded project led by @mvagelli.bsky.social and hosted at Ca' Foscari University examining the concept of scientific pluralism and defining a new understanding of this concept based on the notion of “style”.

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SciPlu Project @scipluproject.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
From yesterday’s conference on Foucault’s 100th anniversary: @mvagelli.bsky.social presenting on Ian Hacking on Foucault and the philosophical abuses of the past.
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SciPlu Project @scipluproject.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
From yesterday’s conference on Foucault’s 100th anniversary: @mvagelli.bsky.social presenting on Ian Hacking on Foucault and the philosophical uses of the past.
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SciPlu Project @scipluproject.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Many thanks to Prof. Elisabetta Basso and the University of Pavia for this inspiring conference marking Foucault’s 100th anniversary (Thursday, 21 May), and for inviting @mvagelli.bsky.social to speak on Ian Hacking, archaeology, and the philosophical uses and abuses of the past.
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SciPlu Project @scipluproject.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
🎉 Throwback to last week’s full-house event: “What Science for What Society?” with Jason C. Alexander & Chrysostomos Mantzavinos, and Eleonora Montuschi as a discussant. Great discussion on science & democracy! Many thanks to our speakers and everyone who joined the discussion!
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SciPlu Project @scipluproject.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
📍If you’re in Venice tomorrow, don’t miss this event organised as part of SCIPLU! What Science for What Society? A roundtable on science & democracy with Jason C. Alexander and Chrysostomos Mantzavinos. 🏛 Ca’ Foscari, Palazzo Malcanton Marcorà 🗓 5 May 2026 | 🕒 14:45–17:30 No registration needed.
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SciPlu Project @scipluproject.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
La scorsa settimana @mvagelli.bsky.social è stato invitato alla Fondazione De Santillana per un dialogo su “Giorgio de Santillana: mito, scienza e conoscenza”. Grazie alla Fondazione per l’organizzazione di questo bellissimo evento e per l’opportunità! Bellissime anche le foto ricevute! 📸✨
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SciPlu Project @scipluproject.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
The workshop concludes with a talk by @annaziel.bsky.social on “Ludwik Fleck on Democracy and Objectivity in Sciences,” featuring a vivid description of pre‑war Lviv and its intellectual milieu.
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SciPlu Project @scipluproject.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
For the third talk of the Fleck in Discussion workshop, Melinda Fagan joined us online with a presentation titled “Fleck and the Pragmatists.”
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SciPlu Project @scipluproject.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
The second talk today featured @m-de-la-riva.bsky.social on "Habent Sua Fata Libelli: On the Reception of Ludwik Fleck’s Genesis and Development of a Scientific Fact (1935)", followed by a lively Q&A with an engaged audience and Klaus Zittel as discussant.
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SciPlu Project @scipluproject.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Starting the Fleck in Discussion workshop with an introduction by @mvagelli.bsky.social and a presentation by Guillermo Címbora Acosta: "Reconsidering Fleck’s Epistemology: From Sociological Reductionism to Pluralistic Historicism"
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SciPlu Project @scipluproject.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Thrilled to host the Fleck in Discussion workshop today at Ca' Foscari University organised by @mvagelli.bsky.social. Scholars will discuss Ludwik Fleck’s work and its contemporary relevance. Many thanks to Guillermo Címbora Acosta, @m-de-la-riva.bsky.social, Melinda Fagan & @annaziel.bsky.social !
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SciPlu Project @scipluproject.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
📢The HISTEPS WG Seminar Series is back with a third session, featuring Marianne Janack, Roberto Gronda, and Giancarlo Marchetti with a talk on “Pragmatism and Philosophy of Science” 📅December 11, 16.00-17.30 (Venice Time, CET) 🤓Register here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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SciPlu Project @scipluproject.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
📢 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
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SciPlu Project @scipluproject.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
Huge thanks to everyone who joined us yesterday for the second HISTEPS session with Adam Tamas Tuboly 🙌 📅The third session is coming up on Thursday 11/12 with Roberto Gronda, Marianne Janack and Giancarlo Marchetti don’t miss it! 🔗 Check out the full programme: pric.unive.it/projects/sci...
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SciPlu Project @scipluproject.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
📍See the full HISTEPS WG Seminar Series programme below. 🔗 To participate, please fill out this form: forms.gle/ws8fiU8LYvrB...
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SciPlu Project @scipluproject.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
🎉 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”
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SciPlu Project @scipluproject.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
📝 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
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SciPlu Project @scipluproject.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
✨️Full room and dim lights for Peter Galison's lecture on: Author Function in Scientific Collaboration: Around the Event Horizon. 🌌
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SciPlu Project @scipluproject.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
‼️ Change of venue for the TiPS inaugural lecture with Peter Galison on: Author Function in Scientific Collaboration: Around the Event Horizon. 📅 Monday 13 October at 4 PM (Venice time) 📍Now at Palazzo Cosulich, Fondamenta delle Zattere
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SciPlu Project @scipluproject.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
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
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SciPlu Project @scipluproject.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
📢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
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SciPlu Project @scipluproject.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
#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'
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SciPlu Project @scipluproject.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
#ENPOSS2025 is slowly wrapping up with a book symposium featuring prof. Robert Northcott on his latest book, published in 2025: 'Science for a Fragile World', with @mjbuedo.bsky.social and Paul Roth as discussant, and chaired by prof. Eleonora Montuschi.
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SciPlu Project @scipluproject.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
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'
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SciPlu Project @scipluproject.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
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'
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SciPlu Project @scipluproject.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
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'
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SciPlu Project @scipluproject.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
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
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SciPlu Project @scipluproject.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
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
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SciPlu Project @scipluproject.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
2/4 In Aula Valent, a session, chaired by Eugenio Petrovich, featuring papers by Mees van Santen on 'Measuring development: Rethinking the HDI through Co-Production and Political Legitimacy' #ENPOSS2025
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SciPlu Project @scipluproject.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
And a paper by @ivanboldyrev.bsky.social on 'A Bigger Game: Criticizing Market Design Models' #ENPOSS2025
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SciPlu Project @scipluproject.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
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';
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SciPlu Project @scipluproject.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
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
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SciPlu Project @scipluproject.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
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',
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SciPlu Project @scipluproject.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Stéphanie Ruphy discusses whether 'Democracy Need More Politically Engaged Scientists ?' in her keynote speech, chaired by Eleonora Montuschi at #ENPOSS2025, in a sunny Aula Baratto
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SciPlu Project @scipluproject.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Meanwhile, in Aula Baratto, in a session chaired by Julie Zahle, Francesco Nappo reflects on 'Design Principles for the IPCC Emission Scenario Ensemble', followed by Marco Emilio's contribution on 'Social Powers and Epistemic Practices in Eco-Social Research' #ENPOSS2025
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SciPlu Project @scipluproject.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Late morning session in Aula Berengo at Ca'Foscari #ENPOSS2025 in a session chaired by Matteo Giannasi. Tommaso Listo discusses 'Hacking and Latour: a Political Epistemology Dialogue at a Distance'
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SciPlu Project @scipluproject.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
A parallel session at #ENPOSS2025 chaired by Matteo Giannasi features insightful papers by Robert Fraser on 'A Theory of (Social) Structural Explanation' and Jens Harbecke on 'Property Supervenience and the Supervenience of Social Science Laws'
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SciPlu Project @scipluproject.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
2/3 With contributions by @jonwilliamson.uk : 'Can Evidential Pluralism Mitigate Bias and Motivated Reasoning?', Alexandra Trofimov on 'How Evidential Pluralism Mitigates Epistemic Injustice in Evidence-Based Evaluation' #ENPOSS2025
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SciPlu Project @scipluproject.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
1/3 Full house in Aula Baratto at Ca' Foscari University for Day 2 of #ENPOSS2025. Morning sessions include a symposium chaired by @mjbuedo.bsky.social on 'Pros and Cons of Evidential Pluralism in the Social Sciences'
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SciPlu Project @scipluproject.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
2/2 And a paper by Helena Slanickova on 'Blind Spots and Tunnel Vision in Policy Decision Structuring: Lessons Learned From Critical Contextual Empiricism' 🎉 See you tomorrow for more discussions on Philosophy and Social Sciences at Ca' Foscari University #ENPOSS2025
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SciPlu Project @scipluproject.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
1/2 The final session of Day 1 at #ENPOSS2025 is chaired by @catemar.bsky.social and features papers by @alessandrabasso.bsky.social on 'Values and Trustworthiness in Economic Inequality Metrics', by Emanuele Martinelli on 'An Agent-based Approach to the Limits of Economic Planning' ➡️
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SciPlu Project @scipluproject.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
2/2 A paper by Roberto Fumagalli on 'A Defence of Preference-Based Approaches to Welfare Evaluations in Public Policy', and a contribution by Malvina Ongaro, @chiffi.bsky.social and Lorenza Petrini on the 'Role for Cost-benefit Analysis in Public Decision-making' #ENPOSS2025
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SciPlu Project @scipluproject.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
1/2 More insightful contributions this afternoon at #ENPOSS2025 in a session chaired by Paul Roth, with papers on 'Disentangling Constitutive Explanations in the Social Sciences' by @ylikoskip.bsky.social and Joonatan Nõgisto ➡️
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SciPlu Project @scipluproject.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Muhammad Ali Khalidi asks: 'Wherein Are Social Kinds Normative?' In his keynote speech chaired by @mvagelli.bsky.social at #ENPOSS2025, followed by a lively Q&A session.
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SciPlu Project @scipluproject.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
In another room at Ca' Foscari University, a parallel session chaired by Julie Zahle features papers by Sofia Blanco Sequeiros on evidence-informed policy, Thodoris Dimitrakos on norms in social phenomena, and Patrizio Caldara on Latour & anthropocentrism. 🔗Info: enposs.eu #ENPOSS2025
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SciPlu Project @scipluproject.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Starting ENPOSS conference with a session chaired by Paul Roth featuring a paper by Martin Palacek and Mark Risjord, followed by a symposium on "Understanding and Explaining Evil and Extremism" with contributions from @emiliecaspar.bsky.social, Carsten Stueber, and Raphael Kunstler. ##ENPOSS2025
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SciPlu Project @scipluproject.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
🌧️ We're thrilled to kick off the ENPOSS 2025 Annual Conference at Ca' Foscari University under Venice’s rainy skies! Looking forward to three days of rich discussions 🎉 Take a look at the program and the abstracts here: enposs.eu #ENPOSS2025
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SciPlu Project @scipluproject.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
For its first activity, SCIPLU has organised and is hosting the annual ENPOSS Conference at Ca' Foscari University, 10–12 September 2025. 📄 Programme, and info below ⬇️ We’re looking forward to seeing you there! enposs.eu #ENPOSS2025 #PhilosophyOfScience #CaFoscari
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