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 […]
Workshop: Dismantling boundaries between STS and Design: A workshop on RRI and assessment practices in co-creation landscapes
November 20, 2019 – 10:30. Politecnico di Milano, Dipartimento di Design, Campus Bovisa, Edificio B4, via Candiani 72 The development and introduction of new technologies within our turbulent society is crucial in solving and shaping challenges in equal measure. In this regard, the concept of co-creation has been recently introduced in diverse fields as a […]
Workshop: Assertion and Proof (WAP 2019)
Lecce, September 12-14, 2019 The theme of the workshop is the notion of assertion and its logical treatment. We aim to bring together scholars interested in the analysis of the logical notion of assertion and other related notions such as inference, proof, argument, meaning of logical constants that may receive an assertion-based interpretation. Following the […]
Workshop: Symmetry and Equivalence in Physics
Salzburg, September 3-4, 2019 This workshop, which is organized in connection with the ILMPS2019 conference, aims at exploring philosophical issues concerning the concepts of symmetry and equivalence that arise in our fundamental physical theories. The keynote speakers are Adam Caulton (Oxford), Ben Feintzeig (Washington), Doreen Fraser (Waterloo), Karen Crowther (Geneve), Giovanni Valente (Milan), and David […]
Conference: Irvine-London-Munich-PoliMi-Salzburg Conference in Philosophy and Foundations of Physics
Salzburg, September 2-3, 2019 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 cases new theorems have been proven and new lines of […]
Workshop: Are Science and Technology Gendered? Insights from Philosophy and Sociology
March 28, 2019 – 15:30. Politecnico di Milano, Auditorium, Via Pascoli 53. This workshop has the aim to offer to a large audience of Politecnico di Milano’s scholars an in-depth and accessible understanding of the differences between the professional trajectories of men and women in science and technology, by detailing some of the main cultural, […]
Workshop: Interpreting Quantum Mechanics: Old and New Philosophical Problems
March 11, 2019 – 10:15. Politecnico di Milano, Dipartimento di Matematica, Aula Consiglio, VII floor, Via Bonardi 7 Quantum Mechanics is our most successful theory to account for the microscopic world. Yet, it is still beset with outstanding interpretational questions that have intrigued physicists, mathematicians and philosophers for almost a century. The present workshop aims […]
Workshop: Etica per la Tecnologia: Come Affrontare Consapevolmente le Sfide di Tutti i Giorni
March 4, 2019, 10:30. Politecnico di Milano, Aula Magna, Piazza Leonardo da Vinci 32. This workshop purports to discuss and bring to public attention important themes related to the Politecnico di Milano’s project of developing the field of ethics for technology. Invited speakers are Helga Nowotny (Vienna), Mariarosa Taddeo (Oxford) and Giuseppe Testa (Milan). For […]
Workshop: Philosophy and Technologies of Simulation
November 22-23, 2018. Politecnico di Milano, Dipartimento di Elettronica, Informazione e Bioingegneria, Aula Seminario, Via Ponzio 34/5 This research workshop is jointly organized by the High Performance Computing Center Stuttgart, Politecnico di Milano and Middlesex University London. This workshop follows the successful organization of the First Summer School on Computer Simulation Methods, held in Stuttgart […]
Conference: Putting Ethics into Work: Educating the Future Professionals in Engineering, Architecture and Design
November 8, 2018, 9.45. Politecnico di Milano, Auditorium, Via Pascoli 53.A roundtable discussion with IDEA League partners on the initiatives, strategies, and issues in educating ethically sensitive professionals. For more information click here: A3_Putting_Ethics_intoWork_def
