Epistemic Harms Workshop-Retreat at Raitenhaslach Monastery, 4–6 March 2026
4-6 March, 2026: Scholars from across Europe will gather for the Epistemic Harms Workshop, organized and sponsored by the Chair of Philosophy and History of Science at the Technical University of Munich (TUM). Hosted at the Cistercian Monastery of Raitenhaslach, the retreat will explore how knowledge practices can cause, perpetuate, or mitigate harm across different domains. The program opens with introductions by Sabina Leonelli, Rena Alcalay, and Ian Kidd, followed by sessions on the nature of harm, the environment, medicine, and artificial intelligence. Highlights include presentations on epistemic injustice, data-intensive healthcare, and the ethical dimensions of AI. Through discussions, collaborative exercises, and reflective activities, participants aim to refine shared approaches to understanding harm and responsibility in research and society.
26-27 November 2025, Munich: “Democratic Remedies for Disinformation and Distrust: Can Open Science Help?” workshop will explore the nuanced relationship between fast science and open science; how open science may contribute to fast science, and how open science may help to counteract it. The workshop format will combine theoretical discussion and prototyping of possible solutions using design thinking methodology. On the first day, a panel will explore the abovementioned themes to tune in to the problem. It will then brainstorm a long list of possible solutions, define their beneficiaries, the area of intervention, and the resources needed, and collectively decide which to tackle. On day two, we will dive deeper into the design of the selected prototypes. Given this format, we can accept only a limited number of theoretical contributions (still, feel free to get in contact if you want to participate in the panel).
Important Dates: 26 November noon till 27 November 2025, around 5 p.m.
Location: Augustenstraße 40, 80333 Munich, 1. Floor, Room: F 1.11.
Program: Please check the following LINK
“Frontiers in Philosophy and History of Science and Technology” – Research Colloquium | Winter Semester 2025. We are delighted to announce the launch of the interdisciplinary colloquium led by Sabina Leonelli. Beginning on Tuesday, 09 October 2025, the weekly hybrid seminar (Tuesdays, 15:00–17:15 CET) will feature cutting-edge research in the philosophy and history of science and technology. A different guest speaker presents work in progress in the first hour of each week. The emphasis tends to be on the biological, biomedical, and environmental sciences, data science and AI, and questions of epistemology, ethics, and political economy. Please register by 24 October 2025 by sending an email to desantilahysa@tum.de. Location: Augustenstrasse 40 (3rd-floor seminar room) and via Zoom (link is available upon registration). Agenda: You may check the weekly content in the following LINK
Emma Cavazzoni is organizing, in collaboration with Costanza Coloni (University of Cambridge), the “Philosophy of Science in Practice – in practice” workshop taking place online on 14 October 2025, from 13:50 to 18:45 (CEST). This event gathers leading scholars in philosophy of science who will offer hands-on insights into applying qualitative methods within philosophical research. If you are interested in attending, please register via this link. Registered participants will receive the abstracts and the Zoom link ahead of the workshop. For more information on the workshop content and agenda, please check the PROGRAM.
An international workshop, titled “Empirical Methods for a Social Epistemology of Interdisciplinary Research,” will be held on 28 July 2025 at TUM. Organized by the Chair of Philosophy and History of Science and Technology, the workshop brings together members of the SoPP and the PHIL_OS projects to discuss the use of empirical methods, and particularly qualitative social science methods, to foster philosophical investigation of interdisciplinary research practices. Check the Program for more information.
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.
20-25 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! Check the Program for more information on the sessions and participants.
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