Forthcoming activities

  • Conferenze di Facoltà
    Continuano le Conferenze di Facoltà organizzate in collaborazione con la Facoltà di Ingegneria dell’Università di Bologna, con l'obiettivo di descrivere i contenuti della cultura scientifica e tecnica che, a partire dalla metà del XVIII secolo, ha dato origine alla Rivoluzione Industriale dell'Ottocento. I manifesti e gli abstracts delle conferenze tenutesi nell'ultimo quinquennio sono raccolti nel volumetto Conferenze di Facoltà. Maggio 2005 - Dicembre 2009, Bologna, CLUEB, 2009.

  • Seminari “Aspetti epistemologici della scienza economica”
    Calendario dei prossimi incontri: Michael Joffe (Imperial College London):
    “What can Economics Learn from Science?”
    11 marzo 2010, ore 17
    Marco Casari (Dipartimento di Scienze economiche dell’Università di Bologna):
    “Intertemporal preferences: why are we discounting the future?”
    25 marzo 2010, ore 17
    Stefano Zamagni (Dipartimento di Scienze economiche dell’Università di Bologna):
    “The anthropological turn in economics: whither individualism?"
    22 aprile 2010, ore 17
    Sede degli incontri: Aula 22, Facoltà di Economia, Piazza Scaravilli 2.
    I seminari rientrano nelle attività svolte nell’ambito del Dottorato Internazionale “Science, Technology, and Humanities” (STH)
    Il primo incontro della serie si è tenuto il 3 dicembre 2009, allorché il Professor Matthias Klaes (Keele Management School and Stirling Centre for Economic Methodology) ha parlato di Frameworks of Choice: Economic Rationality and the Question of How to Choose

  • Workshops organized within the ESF Research Networwing Programme "The Philosophy of Science in a European perspective" (PSE)
    "Historical Debates about Logic, Probability and Statistics", University of Paderborn, July 9-10 2010.
    " "Pluralism in the Foundations of Statistics", University of Kent, Canterbury, UK, September 9-10 2010.
    "The Debate on Mathematical Modeling in the Social Sciences", University of A Coruña, Ferrol Campus, Spain, September 23-24 2010.
    "Points of Contact between the Philosophy of Physics and the Philosophy of Biology: Probability, Laws and Natural Kinds", London School of Economics, London, UK, December 13-14 2010.
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Past activities

  • STH Doctoral Programme Science Technology, and Humanities and CIRESS Il 19 novembre 2009 il prof. Alessandro Freddi (DIEM, Università di Bologna) ha tenuto una conferenza sul tema 'Scienza nella pratica: alcune riflessioni sulla sperimentazione delle strutture' Sala Mondolfo del Dipartimento di Filosofia via Zamboni 38 (piano III)
  • Research Networking Programme "The Philosophy of Science in a European Perspective" (PSE).
    Workshops held in 2009:
    - Explanation vs. Description in the Cultural Sciences, and the Realm and Limits of Explanation and Prediction in the Social Sciences, University of Amsterdam, October 26-27, 2009;
    - Physical and Philosophical Perspectives on Probability, Explanation and Time, University of Utrecht, October 19-20 2009;
    - Explanation, Confirmation, and Prediction in Biology and Medicine, University of Konstanz, 2-4 October 2009.
  • Le leggi antiebraiche del 1938 in Italia Accademie e Società Scientifiche

    Bologna, 27 ottobre 2009
    Accademia delle Scienze dell’Istituto di Bologna
    via Zamboni 31
    Programma

  • International Workshop "Pragmatism from Giovanni Vailati to Contemporary Epistemology", Bologna, October 12-13, 2009
  • Presentazione del sito Scienza a due voci
    Le donne nella scienza italiana dal Settecento al Novecento
    Conferenza spettacolo di Marinella Manicardi. 25 settembre 2009 ore 18, presso La Scuderia, Piazza Verdi 2 (sala interna). Iniziativa organizzata in collaborazione con il CIRESS nell'ambito della Notte dei Ricercatori in Emilia Romagna.
  • Conference on "Bad habits and animal appetites: 19th-Century debates on poverty". 29th May 2009 at 11:00 a.m. prof. Bernhard Kleeberg (Univ. Konstanz). The conference is organized in cooperation with STH Doctoral Programme Science, Technology, and Humanities.
  • Research Networking Programme "The Philosophy of Science in a European Perspective" (PSE)
    Opening Conference
    The Present Situation in the Philosophy of Science
    University of Vienna, December 18-20, 2008
  • Presentazione del volume "Einstein parla italiano. Itinerari e polemiche"
    Martedì 16 dicembre 2008 ore 17.00
    Biblioteca dell'Archiginnasio, Sala dello Stabat Mater Piazza Galvani 1, Bologna
    Presentano il volume: Enrico Bellone, Pier Ugo Calzolari, Umberto Eco, Paolo Rossi Coordina: Arnaldo Colasanti Saranno presenti le curatrici Sandra Linguerri e Raffaella Simili. Apri l'invito
  • Presentazione del sito web "Scienza a due voci"
    Il primo dizionario biografico on-line delle scienziate italiane dal Settecento al Novecento: http://scienzaa2voci.unibo.it
    (a cura di R. Simili e V. Babini)
    Mercoledì 3 dicembre 2008 ore 20,30
    Aula Magna S. Cristina, Via del Piombo 5 - Bologna
    Introduce Raffaella Simili
    Interverrà il Magnifico Rettore Pier Ugo Calzolari
  • Questioni di vita o morte. Seminario Internazionale di Bioetica
    Mercoledì 7 Maggio 2008 Ore 10,00
    Facoltà di lettere e filosofia
    Università di Bologna
    Aula VIII, Via Zamboni 38 - BOLOGNA
  • International Workshop
    The Role and Evaluation of Evidence in Economic Analysis Bologna, May 23-24, 2008
    Sala seminari Biblioteca di Economia Walter Bigiavi
    Via Belle Arti 33, Bologna
  • In Memoriam Maurizio Ferriani (1944 - 2007)
    Università di Bologna 11 e 12 Marzo 2008
  • Scientia (1907-2007), Workshop nel centenario della rivista Scientia, Bologna, 6 dicembre 2007
    Intervento di Federico Enriques
  • International Workshop: The Origins and Function of Causal Thinking IV, Venice, October 25-27, 2007
  • International Workshop: Evidence in the Human Sciences, Bologna, May 25-26, 2007
    Speakers: R. Campaner (Bologna), P. Dawid (UCL), P. Garbolino (IUAV), D. Lagnado (UCL), J. Mortera (Roma 3), A. Mura (Sassari), M. Joffe (Imperial College, London);
  • Workshop: Lucrezio, la Natura e la Scienza, Bologna, November 15, 2006
  • International Workshop: Bruno de Finetti, Radical Probabilist, Bologna, October 26-28, 2006. Proceedings edited by M.C. Galavotti, College Publications, 2008
  • International Workshop: Plurality in Causality, Bologna, May 12, 2006
  • Exhibition: Einstein a Bologna, Bologna, November 11, 2005 – January 8, 2006
  • Conference Series: Omaggio a Einstein, Bologna, November 11 – December 14, 2005
  • Movie series: Vedere la scienza, Bologna, October 10–12, 2005
  • Ricordando Lise Meitner, by Robert Marc Friedman (directed by Arnaldo Picchi), Bologna, October 10 –12, 2005; program of the event 
  • International Workshop: Causality, Probability and Rationality, Bologna, May 6-7, 2005
  • International Workshop: The Migration of Ideas, Bologna, September 25 – 27, 2004; program of the event.  Proceedings edited by R. Simili and R. Scazzieri, Watson Publishing International, Science History Publications/USA, 2008
  • From Private to Public, Natural Collections and Museums, Bologna, June 18-19, 2004. Proceedings edited by M. Beretta, Watson Publishing International, Science History Publications/USA, 2005
  • Vedere la scienza, Bologna, May 27 – June 5, 2004
  • Master in Historic and Scientific Museology, Bologna, 2004
  • Science at the Cinema, Bologna, October 28 - November 13, 2003
  • Conference Series: Testimoni del tempo. I protagonisti della scienza a Bologna, September 2003
  • Carl Djerassi and Roald Hoffmann Oxygen, 2001 Italian first night Ossigeno, adapted and directed by Arnaldo Picchi, Aula Magna di S. Lucia, Bologna, October 10, 2003
  • Master in Historic and Scientific Museology, Bologna, 2003
  • International Project: European Science Foundation Scientific Network on New Perspectives on the Enhancement of the European scientific Heritage, coordinator Marco Beretta, 2002-2005
  • International Workshop: Marconi scienziato e imprenditore, Bologna, October 2, 2002
  • International Workshop: Navigare per sapere, Bologna, November 29, 2002
  • International Workshop: Rationality and pragmatism. Workshop in honour of Patrick Suppes, Bologna, March 22-23 2002
  • Master in Historic and Scientific Museology, Bologna, 2002
  • International Workshop: Reconstructing science, contributions to the enhancement of the European scientific heritage, ESF Exploratory workshop, Ravenna, June 8-9, 2001
  • Exhibition: Il teatro della natura di Ulisse Aldrovandi (Ulisse Aldrovandi's theatre of nature), Bologna, March 2001
  • International Workshop: Observation and experiment in the natural and social sciences, ESF Scientific Network Historical and Contemporary perspectives of philosophy of science in Europe, Bertinoro, September 30-October 2, 2001. Proceedings edited by M.C. Galavotti, Kluwer Academic Publisher, 2003
  • International Project: European Science Foundation Scientific Network on Historical and Contemporary perspectives of philosophy of science in Europe, coordinator Maria Carla Galavotti, 2000-2003
  • Meeting: Abner Shimony's Tibaldo and the hole in the calendar, Bologna, December 2000
  • Seminar: Joachim Lambeck a Bologna (Joachim Lambeck in Bologna), Bologna, May 7-20, 2000
  • International Workshop: I modi della divulgazione scientifica (Means of popularising scientific discourse), in collaboration with the IUHPS (International Union for the History and Philosophy of Science) and Società Italiana di Storia della Scienza
  • International Workshop: Stochastic dependence and causality, Bertinoro, September, 1999; Proceedings edited by M.C. Galavotti, P. Suppes and D. Costantini, CSLI Publications, 2001
  • Lectures series: Scienza a due voci (Voices in science), Bologna, February-April 1999 and March-May 2000. Proceedings edited by R. Simili, Olschki, 2006
  • Research Project: Scienza a due voci (The Two Voices of Science). The project is the outcome of an historical survey undertaken within the framework of a project for the circulation of scientific culture funded by the Italian Ministry for Higher Education and Research. A project launched by a group of women historians at Bologna University’s Department of Philosophy in 1999.
  • International Workshop: Rationality in science, Bologna, 1998; one day conference in honour of Wesley Salmon
  • Conference: L'epistemologia di Karl Popper (Karl Popper's epistemology), Cesena, 1994
  • Conference: Attualità di Rudolf Carnap (Contemporary relevance of Rudolf Carnap), Cesena, 1992. Proceedings edited by A. Pasquinelli, CLUEB Publisher
  • Conference: Radici, significato, retaggio dell'opera newtoniana (Roots, meaning, heritage of the Newtonian work), Cesena, 1988. Proceedings edited by G. Tarozzi and M. van Vloten, University of Bologna Publisher;
  • Conference: Federigo Enriques filosofo e scienziato, Bologna, 1986. (Federigo Enriques philosopher and scientist, proceedings edited by R. Simili, Capelli Publisher).