Type of event: Event

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 will be giving 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/

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.

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”.

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.

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