Workshop: Uncertainty in the Sciences, PoliMi, June 24, 10:00-18:30
Venue: Politecnico di Milano, Building 16 (via Bonardi 9), Room 16B.1.1 (ground floor) The use of scientific models is often accompanied by significant uncertainties. The problem is especially acute when dealing with complex systems, where the variables are numerous and difficult to control. This workshop will bring together philosophical and applied perspectives concerning the quantification […]
Workshop: Fairness and Machine Learning for Health
Venue: Politecnico di Milano,Edificio Nave/building 14 (via Bonardi 9), Aula Consiglio (7h floor) In this workshop, we will discuss questions of fairness pertaining to machine learning applications in the health domain. Our goal is to explore the philosophical and moral plausibility of data – driven evaluations of fairness in this domain, to highlight the moral […]
Workshop: Mathematical Limits in Physics, PoliMi, April 7-8, 2022
Venue: Politecnico di Milano, Auditorium, Via Pascoli 53, 15-18 (April 7), 9.30-18 (April 8) This workshop, which is organized in connection with the ILMPS2022 conference, aims at exploring philosophical issues concerning the use and interpretation of mathematical limits in physical theories. The keynote speakers are Lapo Casetti (Florence), Sam Fletcher (Minnesota), Eleanor Knox (King’s College […]
Conference: Irvine-London-Munich-PoliMi-Salzburg Conference in Philosophy and Foundations of Physics, PoliMi, April 6-7, 2022
Venue: Politecnico di Milano, Auditorium, Via Pascoli 53, 9-18 (April 6) 10-13 (April 7) Over the past decades, important contributions to the mathematical and conceptual foundations of physical theories have been made within the philosophical community. Conversely, critical analysis of the formal structures of our best physical theories inform central philosophical concerns, and in some […]
Ethics and emerging technologies
Date: November 22th, 2021 Time: 11:00-13:00 Venue: Aula Magna, Politecnico di Milano, Piazza Leonardo da Vinci 32 Technological innovation can lead to the emergence of important ethical, social, and scientific issues: understanding them requires moving beyond disciplinary barriers and integrating expertise from engineering, the humanities, and the social sciences. This workshop presents three critical studies, […]
META Debate: the Scientific Populism
Date: May 12th, 2021 Time: 16:00 – 17:30 Venue: On-line platform “Webinar” In the last few years, as a result of the pandemic and communication that is not always coherent and effective, some groups of citizens, associations and movements have mobilised in opposition to scientific and academic institutions. The META debate will discuss the challenges […]
Climate migrants: from emergency to epoch-making phenomenon. Causes, research, legislation
Date: April 15th, 2021 Time: 15:00 – 18:00 Venue: On-line platform “Teams” The seminar, organised by META (Humanities and Social Studies Unit on Science and Technology of the Politecnico di Milano) and CLIMATE-LAB (Interdepartmental Laboratory dedicated to the wide-ranging study of the effects of climate change), aims to propose an initial reflection within the University […]
META Debate: Controversial Science. When Researchers Argue and Knowledge Advances
Date: March 12th, 2021 Time: 11:00 – 13:00 Venue: On-line platform “Teams” The debate will address the issue of how science grows as new controversies arise. This has been demonstrated by the pandemic, during which virologists, epidemiologists, statisticians, biomedical scientists have held divergent opinions, expressed disagreements, and initiated controversies, but in doing so have activated […]
Conference: Digital Humanism, PoliMi, October 9, 2020
Politecnico di Milano, Aula Magna, Piazza Leonardo da Vinci 32, 10:00-18:00 The Vienna Manifesto on Digital Humanism, which was edited last year, is a call to deliberate and to act on current and future technological development. It encourages academic communities, as well as industrial leaders, politicians, policy makers, and professional societies all around the globe, […]
Workshop: Is science democratic?
May 26, 2020 – 17:30 In science, which requires factual evidence, the consensus of the peer community is the ultimate arbiter of the value of research. But it is the collective decision of the social and political community to determine whether this evidence is sufficient to lend credibility to scientific hypotheses and explanations, as the […]
Conference: Scientific and Epistemic Tools: Models, Thought Experiments and Analogical Reasoning, Salzburg
March 6-7, 2020 This conference aims to explore the conceptual status of various epistemic tools employed in scientific reasoning and models construction, ranging from thought experiments to analogy and abduction. Invited speakers include Laura Felline (University RomaTre), Rawad El Skaf (University of Salzburg), John D. Norton (University of Pittsburgh), Viola Schiaffonati (Politecnico di Milano), Daniele […]
META Debate: La scienza in-credibile. Il fenomeno delle fake news scientifiche
December 5, 2019 – 11:00-13:00. Politecnico di Milano, Aula Magna, Piazza Leonardo da Vinci 32. Le fake news sono divenute un problema socialmente rilevante negli ultimi anni, sempre più spesso oggetto di notizia giornalistica o commento politico. La questione riguarda direttamente anche il mondo della scienza e della tecnologia, che soffre di una crisi di […]
