STS Italia Conference 2025 – “Technoscience for Good: Designing, Caring and Reconfiguring”
Date: June 11-13, 2025 Venue: Politecnico di Milano, Bovisa Campus How might we work towards achieving “good” technoscience? How can we – with our various technologies and ways of knowing, in diverse environments facing different challenges, across disciplinary boundaries and wide distances both geographical as well as socio-cultural, together with Others of all sorts – […]
Workshop – “Geoethics for Geological Hazards”
Date: May 12, 2025 Time: 14:15 – 18:15 PM Venue: Room 26.01, Edificio 26 (Mensa), Via Golgi 20, 20133 Milan Program 14:15 – 14:30 Welcome and Introduction 14:30 – 15:00 Silvia Peppoloni (INGV): Ethical Issues in Georisks 15:00 – 15:30 Giuseppe di Capua (INGV): L’Aquila Earthquake Case 15:30 – 16:00 Coffee Break 16:00 – 16:30 […]
Workshop – “Machine learning in climate change mitigation scenarios: From model development to ensemble analysis”
Date: March 20, 2025 Time: 14:00 – 18:00 PM Venue: AULA FDS, IV floor, Department of Mathematics, Politecnico di Milano Machine learning (ML) has emerged as a critical tool in contemporary climate research. This workshop will explore prospects for ML tools to enhance the design and assessment of medium- and long-term scenarios of greenhouse gas emissions. We will […]
Workshop – MI FIL/02 Milano Logic & Philosophy of Science Network
Date: March 12 Time: 9:00 AM – 18:15 PM Venue: Aula Magna (Rettorato) – Piazza Leonardo da Vinci 32, Politecnico di Milano This workshop will bring together scholars working in logic and philosophy of science at the various universities in The Milano area. Thanks to tha collaboration of representatives from each institution, the programme with […]
Conference – “Vulnerabilità & IA – Ripensare l’umano”
December 5, 2024, 14:30 PM – 19:00 PM, Sala Convegni Fondazione PescarAbruzzo, PescaraDecember 6, 2024, 10:00 AM – 18:00 PM, Auditorium Cianfarani, Chieti Throughout the history of western thought, anthropocentric perspectives have generated numerous issues related to inequality, domination, and exploitation. Recognizing these difficulties, which are inherent to humanistic discourse, becomes crucial to reflect on […]
Workshop – “An Interdisciplinary Dialogue on Fairness in Al”
Date: December 10, 2024 Time: 14:00 PM Venue: Alpha room (Building 24), Via Golgi 40, Milan Abstract: Fairness systematically features among the requirements AI systems must comply with to be deemed trustworthy. Yet, different frameworks on fairness exist, and many AI technologies are still riddled with problems of bias and algorithmic discrimination. This workshop aims […]
Workshop – “Mathematical and Philosophical Foundations Of Open Systems”
Date: November 27, 2024 Time: 9:00 AM Venue: Sala Consiglio, VII Floor, Mathematics Department, Politecnico di Milano (Leonardo Campus) The existence of open systems in physics poses outstanding philosophical issues. Indeed, while closed systems can be studied in isolation from the rest of the universe, open systems interact with the environment by exchanging heat and work, information, or […]
Conference – “Analogies in Physics and Beyond”
Date: November 25-26, 2024 Venue: Sala Consiglio, VII Floor, Dipartimento di Matematica, Politecnico di Milano (Leonardo) Analogies in physics and beyond will examine the circulation of models within and across the sciences. Leading contemporary epistemologists will analyse the process of exchanging scientific knowledge from one field to another, detailing the challenges that often stand in the […]
Research Project “Addressing online scientific misinformation in high school” – Final Conference
Date: November 22, 2024 Time: 10-13 / 14:30-18 Venue: Museo della Scienza e della Tecnologia Leonardo Da Vinci, Sala Auditorium, via San Vittore 21 / Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Aula N111 Via Nirone 15 – Milano The research project Addressing Online Scientific Misinformation in High Schools deals with the problem of the spread of […]
Workshop – “Technological and humanistic aspects in societally aware policy making”
Date: October 4, 2024 Time: 9:00 Venue: Castigliano Room, Building 5, Bovisa Campus This Meta workshop brings together researchers with different backgrounds to discuss topics related to societal challenges in the context of policy design, combining humanistic and engineering aspects in order to design diversity-aware and inclusive policies. The workshop is designed with a very interdisciplinary component, emphasizing […]
Tarja Knuuttila (University of Vienna) – Seminar “Scientific Models as Artifacts”
Date: September 13, 2024 Time: h. 10:30 – 12:15 Venue: Classroom FDS, fourth floor of building 14 (DMAT), Leonardo campus, piazza Leonardo Da Vinci 32. In this seminar, Professor Tarja Knuuttila, a philosopher of science at the University of Vienna, will present her artefactual theory of scientific models, with a particular focus on economic models. […]
Artificial Intelligence & Human Autonomy Philosophical Explorations
Date: August 8, 2024 Time: h. 09.00 – 11.00 Venue: CUOO2 Giurisprudenza Aula VII, University La Sapienza, Rome In this roundtable, organized by Meta as a part of WCP 2024 – The XXV World Congress of Philosophy, Sofia Bonicalzi (University of Roma Tre), Simona Tiribelli (University of Macerata), Radu Uszkai (University of Bucharest), and Fabio […]
