Under which conditions should we rely on #AI models, given all the uncertainties—including opacity—that characterize them? This is the question of our new paper, published in Studies in History and Philosophy of Science. #AI #PhilosophyOfScience #philsky www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 1/7

What can Artificial Intelligence learn from medicine? Generative analogies and reliable machine learning systems

In the past few years, machine learning (ML) has been widely (and to an extent, successfully) implemented in medicine. However, uncertainties surround…

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New 📄 🚨! #CellBio is teeming with simulations comprising an extraordinarily high number of components. We argue that model complexity will not automatically lead to a better understanding of biological systems & discuss how modeling practices could be repurposed: arxiv.org/abs/2608.06998 #philsci

Simulating is not always understanding: When model complexity obscures biology

In cell biology, computational models of biological systems range from minimal representations with a handful of parameters to whole-cell simulations tracking thousands of molecular species across a c...

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Happy this is out! Edited by Alan Love @mcps-philsci.bsky.social and Chris Donohue, this is a gem in history, philosophy, and sociology of the life sciences #philsci. The workshop supporting this volume was the most exciting intellectual event I have ever participated in. Honored to be in it!

Spread the word! Abbiamo inaugurato il network italiano di filosofie delle scienze della vita in pratica (#PIPoLS) e già siamo all'opera con il nostro primo workshop, che si terrà il 17-18 Dicembre al Politecnico di Milano. L'evento é supportato da @ishpssb.bsky.social come #ISHoffyear workshop

PIPoLS: People of the Italian Philosophy of Life Sciences@pipols-italy.bsky.social · 4mo ago

🔥Call for PIPoLS Workshop!🔥 📆17-18 dicembre 2026 Il primo workshop PIPoLS è all'orizzonte! 🗒️In occasione del nostro primo evento in presenza, invitiamo dottorande/i e studentesse/i di laurea magistrale a inviare una proposta per un flash talk, un poster o un breve video da presentare all’incontro.

New on the Archive: Ratti, Emanuele and Ladyman, James and Termine, Alberto (2026) The Modelling Structure of AI-Based Science. [Preprint] https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/29886/

My wonderful colleague Poppy Mankowitz is advertising two 3-yr postdocs & one funded PhD on her ERC project Expressing Value in Language, which investigates evaluative adjectives (‘good’, ‘bad’, ‘beautiful’, ‘tasty’, etc.) from the perspective of philosophy & theoretical & experimental linguistics.

FULLY FUNDED PHDs IN POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY I'm looking for *two* PhD students to join my ERC project on refugee-led approaches to displacement justice. The positions are funded for four years, and you get to join our lovely community in Bristol. Please share widely! philjobs.org/job/show/30997

🚨 Our Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy entry on Computer Simulations in Science is now live. It was a lot of work but I’m proud of this substantial update. I hope it helps those in #philsci interested in the philosophical implications of computational methods. plato.stanford.edu/entries/simu...

New #philsci #philsky paper on #ML and #scientificmodelling! link.springer.com/article/10.1... “Machine learning and theory-ladenness: a phenomenological account” We revisit a widespread assumption in #philsci that modelling practices are inevitably shaped by domain-theoretical knowledge 1/4

Machine learning and theory-ladenness: a phenomenological account - Synthese

Synthese - We provide an analysis of theory-ladenness in machine learning (ML) in science, where ‘theory’ (that we call ‘domain-theory’) refers to the domain knowledge of...

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Two-year postdoc position at Bristol on the Leverhulme-funded Foundations of Longtermism project. If there’s someone you know working in moral philosophy, decision theory, or formal epistemology more broadly who might be interested, please do encourage them to apply.

🚀Publication alert! How have our conversations about #AIethics in healthcare changed? Where are they headed? Excited to share my paper in BMC #MedicalEthics: “Ethical and social considerations of applying artificial intelligence in healthcare- a two-pronged scoping review” doi.org/10.1186/s129...

Ethical and social considerations of applying artificial intelligence in healthcare—a two-pronged scoping review - BMC Medical Ethics

Background Artificial Intelligence (AI) is being designed, tested, and in many cases actively employed in almost every aspect of healthcare from primary care to public health. It is by now well establ...

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Reviewer: "what about x, eh? The author does not consider it, checkmate! Oh, I'm so smart, you are so dumb" : rejection. But there is a 4-page section explicitly discussing x. #coolrejections #philsky #philsci #peronirotte

In an open access article in American Philosophical Quarterly 62.1, @emratti.bsky.social & Mark Graves ( @aiandfaith.bsky.social ) conceptualizes AI ethics via the capability approach, to help clarify and guide the ethical considerations of AI design. buff.ly/42YlLHs

1/ I am seeing a lot of comments on the slashing of NIH support along the lines of “universities should just spend their huge endowments.” I’m the last person to cheer on the institutional stratification rising endowments have contributed to. But let me explain why this is not a solution.

Here is the Turing centenary conference we organized at BU's Center for Philosophy & History of Science when I was director: www.bu.edu/cphs/colloqu... & the Boston Studies volume Juliet & I edited from conference referenced below: link.springer.com/book/10.1007... #philsky #HPS 🏳️‍🌈

Philosophical Explorations of the Legacy of Alan Turing

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Philosophy Talk@philtalkradio.bsky.social · 2y ago

TODAY: Josh and Ray explore the life and thought of Alan Turing with Juliet Floyd from @bostonu.bsky.social, editor of "Philosophical Explorations of the Legacy of Alan Turing" – 11 am on @kalwradio.bsky.social 91.7 FM in San Francisco & www.kalw.org/show/philoso.... #AI #philosophy #PhilSky

Happy to share with you the final result of two years of work (with Giuseppe D'Agostino) at the intersection between #PhilSci and #Bioinformatics and recently accepted on Perspectives on Science. philsci-archive.pitt.edu/24609/ (thread below) 1/5

New paper in American Philosophical Quarterly: A Capability Approach to AI Ethics. We propose a conceptualization of #AIEthics via the capability approach, and show the significant theoretical and concrete benefits of using this approach #PhilTech scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/apq/arti...

A Capability Approach to AI Ethics

Abstract. We propose a conceptualization and implementation of AI ethics via the capability approach. We aim to show that conceptualizing AI ethics through the capability approach has two main advanta...

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Back to the office today at Politecnico, and I had a nice parcel waiting for me – the new Routledge Handbook of Causality and Causal Methods, with my and @emratti.bsky.social chapter on big data for causal inference and competing views on quantity and quality of data. dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781...

Just read in a philosopher's book: "In shifting gears on my boat..." - I wish I was an academic 50 years ago #academicsky #philsky

JOB ALERT! 3-years position in Bristol, epistemology and philosophy of AI #philsky #philsci #philtech

Emanuele Ratti@emratti.bsky.social · 2y ago

JOB ALERT! Lecturer, 3-years position, Department of Philosophy, UBristol! Teaching position with research time. Must be able to teach Epistemology and Philosophy of AI in particular. Ability to teach Philosophy of Science is a plus #philsky #philsci #philtech philjobs.org/job/show/26130

JOB ALERT! Lecturer, 3-years position, Department of Philosophy, UBristol! Teaching position with research time. Must be able to teach Epistemology and Philosophy of AI in particular. Ability to teach Philosophy of Science is a plus #philsky #philsci #philtech philjobs.org/job/show/26130

Evelyn Fox Keller was born OTD in 1936. “There is no magic lens that will enable us to look at, to see nature unclouded … uncolored by any values, hopes, fears, anxieties, desires, goals that we bring to it." #philsci #histsci #Complexity #STS #WomeninSTEM #Feministsky

MORE JOBS! Two postdoctoral positions opened up in my Open Science team: 20 months each, start Jan 2025, deadline for applications: May 6. One focused on science policy, the other on inequity in research. Details: [1] portal.mytum.de/jobs/wissens...; [2] portal.mytum.de/jobs/wissens... #philsci

When you ask the editor what happened with that paper you have submitted 15 months ago

Excited to share that my symposium "Machine learning in science beyond opacity" has been accepted at #PSA24 ! It has been organized with Alessandro Facchini and Alberto Termine (IDSIA Lugano) Juan Durán (Delft), Anais Rameau (Weill Cornell Medicine), Jan-Willem Romeijn and Hanna van Loo (Groningen)

A thread: new publication in the journal Science and Engineering Ethics! Read this article if you want to integrate moral and political philosophy in #aiethics modules #philtech #philai #philsky 1/n link.springer.com/article/10.1...

I guess it only makes sense that I received my copies of the book the same day of a scheduled blood donation, so I can think about the book in the hospital that looks over my favourite building in Milan (Torre Velasca).

Stefano Canali@stefanocanali.bsky.social · 3y ago

Big day: I published a book in Italian! *Conoscere la medicina: Strumenti filosofici* is an introduction to philosophy of medicine for medical doctors, biomedical engineers, health professionals, policy-makers, students. www.carocci.it/prodotto/con... #philsci #philsky #philmed

3-year postdoc position at University of Bristol to work with me on my Foundations of Longtermism project, funded by the Leverhulme Trust! The project will run September 2024 - August 2027. It will focus on the decision-theoretic and ethical foundations for longtermist arguments.

New paper in the EJPS with Federica Russo! The science and values literature largely pays attention to how values influence science; here we show, with examples from medicine and AI, how scientific concepts and methods too can promote some values rather than others link.springer.com/article/10.1...

When you get R&R after revising a paper #academia #philsci #philsky