Events

19-21 November 2025: The Open World Conference. Leonelli will keynote the Niels Bohr Open World Conference in Copenhagen, with a talk on ”Openness and the Scope of Data-Intensive Research”.

27 August 2025: Italian Society for Analytic Philosophy. Leonelli will be keynoting the biennial meeting of the Italian Society for Analytic Philosophy (SIFA 2025) in Torino.

July 2025, Porto (Portugal): Conference of the International Society for the History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Biology. The full team of the Chair in Philosophy and History of Science will attend the Biennial Conference of the International Society for the History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Biology in Porto. We submitted 6 symposia and participated in an additional 3! More details on what is accepted for presentation will be available on www.opensciencestudies.eu

24-27 June 2025: Philosophy of technology. Leonelli will be keynoting the Biennial Conference of the Society for the Philosophy of Technology 2024, University of Eindhoven, June 24-27, with a talk on “Environmental Intelligence: Subverting the Philosophical Premises for AI”https://spt2025.dryfta.com/index.php

17-19 June 2025, Taipei: First Conference of the Asia-Pacific Philosophy of Science Association. Leonelli is keynoting the Asia-Pacific Philosophy of Science Association 2025 Biannual Conference in association with the Taiwan Association for Logic, Methodology, Philosophy of Science and Technology (APPSA 2025), Taipei, Taiwan: https://appsa2025taiwan.mystrikingly.com/

16 May 2025: BEMAC lecture, Milan Bocconi. Leonelli gave the BEMACS Distinguished Lecture at Bocconi University in Milan, under the title of ”Is a Data Society an Open Society?” https://www.unibocconi.eu/wps/wcm/connect/bocconi/sitopubblico_en/navigation+tree/home/programs/bachelor+of+science/economics+management+and+computer+science/bemacstalks/

The Phil_OS project hosted a workshop on 28–29 April 2025 in Landshut (Bavaria). This workshop focused on the diversity of research environments and their alignment with broader scientific transformations, particularly regarding Open Science policies. Check the Program and presentations for more details.

25-27 April 2025: Keynote at Pragmatism conference. Leonelli was an invited speaker at the Res Philosophica International Conference ”Pragmatism and Scientific Inquiry” held in St Louis, Missouri, April 25-26, where she presented results from research conducted at the Library of Congress in Washington, DC, in 2024.

Emma Cavazzoni gave a talk titled "Data-technology communities: collaboration and diversity in data- and technology-intensive multidisciplinary research" at the German Society for Philosophy of Science conference. The event occurred in Erlangen from the 24th to the 26th of March.

22-25 March 2025: German Society for the Philosophy of Science. Leonelli keynoted the triennial conference of the German Society for the Philosophy of Science https://www.wissphil.de/ , with a talk discussing differing philosophical views on empirical inquiry and its role in an open society. She also presented, together with Rachel Ankeny, a paper on data models in precision toxicology.

7-8 February 2025: Prague. Leonelli keynoted the International Conference ”The Future of Knowledge and Democracy: Navigating the Rise of Large Language Models” at the Prague University of Economics and Business. She delivered a talk on ”Shifting perspective on AI for democratic society: convenience, misinformation and the struggle for planetary health”. Programme here: https://llm4dem.vse.cz/dd2025

29 January 2025: LMU Philosophy Seminar. Leonelli gave a seminar at the LMU Department of Philosophy, titled ”Scientific Inquiry in the Age of AI: An Empirically Grounded Critique of Presence Empiricism”.

The successful workshop, "Understanding Misinformation," brought together philosophers and social science and technology students to discuss what it means to be informed, particularly the problems relating to misinformation concerning scientific research and its use as evidence for decision-making. The event occurred on 9 December 2024 at KKV Hansa E.V. Briennerstr. 39, 80333 München.

26-28 November 2024, Tromso: Munin Conference on Scholarly Publishing. Leonelli keynoted the Munin Conference on Scholarly Publishing, Tromso, Norway, with a talk on ”Human-Centric Open Science: Shifting Practices and Social Significance for Scholarly Publishing”. She also hosted a workshop on transdisciplinarity with conference delegates, with Stefano Rimini, the president of Pianeta (www.pianeta.org). In the age of climate emergency, there continues to be a deep disconnection between people’s perception of social concerns (e.g., job and economic security, urban design and uses of technology) and environmental concerns (e.g., weather-related disasters, pollution, loss of green spaces, ecoanxiety). This fuels what many call a ‘democratic deficit’, where representative democracies are struggling to foster and support evidence-based decision-making in the face of extensive misinformation and disinformation campaigns. This is particularly concerning among youth and vulnerable parts of the population, such as immigrant communities and the elderly. This workshop proposes transdisciplinary engagement as a way to engage and inform around those issues, while building and extending Open Science efforts to provide an alternative to bubble chambers created by digital media and some forms of Artificial intelligence. The workshop explored, together with delegates and through break-out groups, experiences of engaging local communities in developing environmental/social interventions together with policy-makers as well as researchers, thinking about challenges and learning from each other’s solutions. Some of the examples will include water research and policy engagement in Italy, youth engagement around environmental themes across European organisations, and the development of the Climate Pact Ambassador network. Slides and a report on the keynote and workshop will soon be available.

17-20 November 2024: Inequity in Open Science Symposium. Leonelli hosted the ”Openness and Inequity in Research” symposium at the biannual meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association 2024, New Orleans, the most important conference in the field. Conference website: https://site.pheedloop.com/event/psa24/home. The symposium examined forms of inequity, injustice, and unfairness that may manifest in efforts to implement Open Science policies and tools across highly diverse research methods and environments around the world. It featured talks by Nathanael Sheehan, Rose Trappes, Carole Lee, Sabina Leonelli, and Helen Longino, and is sponsored by the ERC project “A Philosophy of Open Science for Diverse Research Environments” (see www.opensciencestudies.eu ). The symposium papers are being reviewed for a special issue in the journal Social Epistemology.

The PHIL_OS project presented the “Openness and Inequity in Research” symposium at the New Orleans Philosophy of Science Association conference, November 14-20, 2024. The symposium featured contributions by Nathanael Sheehan, Rose Trappes, Carole Lee, Helen Longino, Rachel Ankeny, and Sabina Leonelli. It represented a significant stepping stone in the project’s conceptualization of injustice in open research systems. Check the program here: PSA  2024

17-19 October 2024, Minneapolis: Debate on the Future of Philosophy of Science. Leonelli spoke at the “Philosophy of Science: Past, Present and Future” Conference hosted by the Minnesota Centre for the Philosophy of Science, reflecting on the role and prospects of philosophy of science in contemporary academia, the opportunities open to the field going forward, and the current initiatives at TUM. Programme:https://drive.google.com/file/d/1XwNlcHT1ezvks5dN7lq6-Rsb20A0A-m7/view ; Watch the video of the panel discussion:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9RUc3pYngs

Paola Castaño and Sabina Leonelli convened two Sessions on Interrogating Openness and Equity in the Data-Centric Life Sciences in the joint meeting of the European Association for the Study of Science and Technology (EASST) and the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) (Amsterdam, 16–19 July 2024).

Sabina co-organised the Conference “Understanding Life in a Changing Planet” on 17–19 April 2024. This celebration of 20+2 years of Egenis, on the occasion of John Dupré’s retirement, brought philosophers from over the world to Exeter.

Sabina Leonelli & Rose Trappes organised a symposium titled “The Nature of Research Environments” at the 2023 European Philosophy of Science Association (EPSA) meeting in Belgrade (Serbia), 20–23 September. Here are the details and session description.

Nathanael Sheehan was involved in the Environmental Intelligence event at the British Science Festival in Exeter on September 8. This is a joint MetOffice & University of Exeter project, seeking to harness Big Data and AI to address environmental problems. At the event, science and art were fused to present the research in a memorable and thought-provoking way.

On September 5, Sabina Leonelli presented the keynote of the “Open to Complexity” Symposium on open science in the social sciences and humanities, at the University of Tilburg (NL), and participated in the roundtable at the end. The symposium was organised on the occasion of Sabina receiving an honorary doctorate from the University during its festive opening of the new academic year.

Phil_OS has organised three sessions at ISHPSSB Toronto (9-15 July): A double session on July 12, “Conceptualising Environments in and for Research: Biological and Philosophical Perspectives”,  as well as a further session on July 13, “Coordination within and beyond the lab: Challenges of transdisciplinary life science” and with Federica Bocchi on July 11,  “Making Data Communities”.

In the context of the PHIL_OS Exploratory Conference, the project hosted two public events locally: “Can I trust Science?”  at the Phoenix Centre, and the roundtable “Is Open Science Good for Research?” at the Streatham campus Forum (30 & 31 March 2023).

The first big meeting of the PHIL_OS project, the Exploratory Conference “Whither Open Science?” took place in Exeter on 30–31 March 2023.

The workshop “Community Engagement as Scientific Practice” took place in Exeter on 28 March 2023.

PHIL_OS presented analysis of COVID-19 sequencing platforms by Nathanael Sheehan and Sabina Leonelli at the Third PhilInBioMed conference in Pittsburgh, November 13–14, 2022.

PHIL_OS participated in the PSA2022, with a project poster and a session “Scientific medicine”, in Pittsburgh, November 10–13, 2022.

As Anchor Teacher, Sabina Leonelli gave five lectures at the WTMC Summer School 2022 “Opening Up Diversity”, 22–26 Aug 2022 in Ravenstein (The Netherlands). This prominent training space for PhD students in Science & Technology Studies in the Netherlands and beyond focused closely on PHIL_OS themes, through several lectures and interactive sessions with students and external guests.

Sabina Leonelli organised a symposium at the 9^th Biennial Conference of the Society for the Philosophy of Science in Practice (SPSP) in Ghent, Belgium, July 2-4, 2022.

Sabina Leonelli and Rachel Ankeny  organised the pre-conference workshop "Methods Matter: Empirical Research in Philosophy of Science in Practice(SPSP)" in Ghent, Belgium, July 1, 2022.

Sabina Leonelli lead and keynoted the final symposium of the “Reproducibility and Replicability in Science” programme of the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts, together with Stephan Lewandowsky.

Paola Castaño gave a talk titled “Experiments, Communities, and Datasets: Sociological Notes about Plant Biology on the International Space Station”, in the One O’clock Space Lecture series of the UCL Space Domain on March 15, 2022 (Virtual/Zoom).

Leonelli keynoted the International Conference "The Future of Knowledge and Democracy: Navigating the Rise of Large Language Models" at the Prague University of Economics and Business on 7-8 February 2025. She delivered a talk on ”Shifting perspective on AI for a democratic society: convenience, misinformation and the struggle for planetary health.” Programme here: https://llm4dem.vse.cz/dd2025