LLC - Science & More Seminars

The Science & More seminar is dedicated to philosophy of science, very broadly understood. Some of the seminars are joint meetings with the Turin Seminar in the History and Philosophy of Science organized by our colleagues who work on the history of science, and its intersection with the philosophy of science.

Below you find a calendar of the Science & More seminars, a description of the next upcoming meeting, and a list of past and future events. Everybody is welcome to join! The seminars usually take place at Palazzo Nuovo, Via Sant'Ottavio 20, 10124 Torino.

The seminar convenors are Eugenio Petrovich (eugenio.petrovich@unito.it) and Jan Sprenger (jan.sprenger@unito.it).

Next Seminars

Andreea Ionescu (West University of Timisoara): From Lived Experience to Grounded Theory, and the Epistemology of Relational Patterns

Thursday 21 May, 11:00-12:15, Philosophy Library, Palazzo Nuovo

Link: https://unito.webex.com/unito/j.php?MTID=mcf064983fff7ce3467aa327720bb2c42

Human attachment is not only a psychological construct, but a lived relational process that shapes the way individuals perceive safety, regulate emotion, and engage with others across the lifespan. Contemporary attachment research increasingly emphasizes the importance of observing these relational dynamics within naturalistic contexts, where patterns of connection, attunement, and rupture emerge organically through everyday interaction. The presentation I propose here would focus on the qualitative grounded theory component of my research, especially the observation of mother–child interaction patterns in natural environments (at their homes). Particular attention would be given to how attachment styles become visible through recurring cognitive interpretations, emotional attunement or dysregulation, and behavioral synchrony or rupture. The philosophical discussion would address theory generation from data, ecological validity, the interpretive dimension of evidence, and methodological pluralism in the human sciences.

Past Seminars

HPS Seminar by Giulia Giannini (University of Milan): Integrare le fonti, ricostruire le pratiche: il caso del Cimento tra metodi storici e computazionali

Monday 18 May, 14:30--16:30, Philosophy Library, Palazzo Nuovo. Talk organized by the inter-university HPS group. The talk is held in Italian.

Naftali Weinberger (LMU): Does the Past Hypothesis Explain the Causal Asymmetry?

Wednesday 13 May, 12:00--13:15, Aula 13, Palazzo Nuovo

Mikkel Gerken (University of Southern Denmark): The Structure of Scientific Recommendations

Wednesday 8 April, 12:00-13:15, Palazzo Nuovo, Aula di Antica

Caterina Sisti (University of Turin): Subjective Probability and Objective Chance

Monday 30 March 2026, 12:00--13:15, Palazzo Nuovo, Philosophy Library, Meeting Room 1

Carlo Zappia (University of Siena): Radical uncertainty in economics: Keynes, Ellsberg and beyond

Joint meeting with the seminar series "Turin Seminar in History and Philosophy of Science".

Monday 16 March 2026, 16:00--17:30, Palazzo Nuovo, Philosophy Library, Meeting Room 1

Alberto Bardi (University of Turin): The Human and the Machine through the Eyes of a Probabilist: Bruno de Finetti on early AI Developments between the US and Italy

Joint meeting with the seminar series "Turin Seminar in History and Philosophy of Science".

Wednesday 25 February 2026, 12:00--13:15, Palazzo Nuovo, Philosophy Library, Meeting Room 1

Andrea Nocerino (University of Turin): The Language of Thought hypothesis in the context of cognitive neuroscience

Wednesday 10 December, 12:00--13:15, Palazzo Nuovo, Philosophy Library, Meeting Room 1

Guglielmo Sproloquio (University of Turin): A quantitative assessment of the diversity thesis in recent philosophy of science

Wednesday 5 November, 12:00-13:15, Meeting Room 1, Philosophy Library, Palazzo Nuovo

Neri Marsili (University of Turin): Posting and Reposting. Investigating Reputation, Trust, and Deniability in Online Communication

Wednesday 29 October, 12:00-13:15, Meeting Room 1, Philosophy Library, Palazzo Nuovo

Thomas Krödel (University of Hamburg): Causal Complications for Explainable AI

Thursday 19 June, 16:00-18:00, Meeting Room 1, Philosophy Library, Palazzo Nuovo

Sébastien Rivat (LMU Munich): How theoretical terms effectively refer

Tuesday 17 June, 12:00-13:00, Meeting Room 1, Philosophy Library, Palazzo Nuovo

Adán Sus (Universidad de Valladolid): Rethinking Evidence for Dark Matter: Robust Sources, Gravitational Theory and Physical Principles

Thursday 5 June, 12:00-13:00, Meeting Room 1, Philosophy Library, Palazzo Nuovo

Dan Lassiter (University of Edinburgh): The temporary-context theory of conditionals

Friday 16 May, 12:00-13:00, Aula 14, Palazzo Nuovo

Eugenio Petrovich (University of Turin): Mapping the social structure of philosophy of science with SOPHIS (Social Observatory of PHIlosophy of Science)

Wednesday 16 April, 11:00-12:00 (!), Aula di Antica, Palazzo Nuovo

Luca Guzzardi (University of Milan): Towards an operational approach to the joint commitment model for scientific communities

Wednesday 2 April, 12:00--13:00, Aula di Antica, Palazzo Nuovo

Malvina Ongaro (Polytechnic University of Milan): Inductive risk as risk. Mitigating the impacts of inductive errors

Wednesday 19 March, 12:00--13:00, Aula 25, Palazzo Nuovo

Matteo Michelini (University of Bochum): Can Scientific Communities Profit from Evaluative Diversity?

Wednesday 26 February, 12:00-13:00, Philosophy Library, Meeting Room 1

Maciej Tarnowski (University of Warsaw): Belief as an epistemic possibility of knowledge

Tuesday 10 December, 12:00--13:00, Meeting Room 1, Philosophy Library, Palazzo Nuovo

Michal Sikorski (Marche Polytechnic University): A Consensus-based Checklist for Assessing Scientific Objectivity

Wednesday 27 November 2024, 12:00-13:00, Aula 18, Palazzo Nuovo

Matteo Baggio (University of Turin): Knowledge from falsehoods: afterthoughts and new perspectives

Tuesday 26 November 2024, 12:00-13:00, Meeting Room 1, Philosophy Library, Palazzo Nuovo

Jan Sprenger (University of Turin): Conditionals between Logical and Semantic Theorizing

Wednesday 13 November 2024, 12:00-13:00, Palazzo Nuovo, Aula 18

Jaakko Kuorikoski (University of Helsinki): Abduction without Explanation

Thursday 7 November 2024, 16-18h, Aula di Antica, Palazzo Nuovo, second floor