Biography:Michela Massimi

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Michela Massimi
Massimi in 2016
Alma materLondon School of Economics and Political Science
Scientific career
FieldsPhilosophy of science
InstitutionsUniversity of Edinburgh
ThesisPauli's exclusion principle : a philosophical perspective (2002)
Doctoral advisorMichael Redhead

Michela Massimi is an Italian and British philosopher of science.[1] Massimi is professor of philosophy of science at the University of Edinburgh. She was Vice President of the European Philosophy of Science Association (2015-9), and President of the Philosophy of Science Association (2023-4).[2] She has extensively published on topics such as realism in science, perspectival realism in philosophy of science,[3] local knowledge[4] and the philosophical-conceptual foundations of the right to participate in science.

Education and career

Massimi has dual Italian and British citizenship.[5] After studying philosophy at Sapienza University of Rome from 1993 to 1997,[1] she completed a Ph.D. in 2002 at the London School of Economics, and after three years of postdoctoral research as a Junior Research Fellow at Girton College, Cambridge, she became a Lecturer in history and philosophy of science at University College London in 2005. She moved to the University of Edinburgh in 2012 and became professor there in 2015.[6]

She was co-editor-in-chief of the British Journal for the Philosophy of Science from 2011 to 2016, and was President of the Philosophy of Science Association for the 2023–2024 term.[2]

Recognition

Massimi was the Wilkins–Bernal–Medawar Medalist and Lecturer of the Royal Society in 2017, speaking on "Why philosophy of science matters to science,"[7] and she won the Lakatos Award of the London School of Economics in 2023 for her 2022 book Perspectival Realism.[8]

She was elected as Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 2018, and as Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society in 2019.[2] She was also elected to the Academia Europaea in 2019.[6]

Books

Massimi is the author of Pauli’s Exclusion Principle: The Origin and Validation of a Scientific Principle (Cambridge University Press, 2005)[9] and Perspectival Realism (Oxford University Press, 2022).[8]

Her edited volumes include:

  • Kant and Philosophy of Science Today (Cambridge University Press, 2008)[10]
  • Philosophy and the Sciences for Everyone (Routledge, 2014)[11]
  • Kant and the Laws of Nature (with Angela Breitenbach, Cambridge University Press, 2017)[12]
  • Understanding Perspectivism: Scientific Challenges and Methodological Prospects (with Casey D. McCoy, Routledge, 2019)[13]
  • Knowledge from a Human Point of View (with Ana-Maria Creţu, Springer, 2020)
  • Ways of World Knowing. Local Knowledge, Coastal Communities, and Equitable Ocean Governance (with Abbe E.L. Brown, Marcel Jaspars, Oxford University Press, 2026)[14]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Michela Massimi: Bio, https://www.michelamassimi.com/bio/, retrieved 2021-02-15 
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 "Michela Massimi, Professor", Staff profiles (University of Edinburgh), https://www.ed.ac.uk/profile/michela-massimi, retrieved 2021-02-15 
  3. ↑ Massimi, Michela (2022) (in English). Perspectival Realism (1st ed.). New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780197555651. 
  4. ↑ Massimi, Michela (2026). Ways of World Knowing. Local knowledge, coastal communities, and equitable ocean governance. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780197815335. 
  5. ↑ West, Peter; Massimi, Michela (January 2018), "Interview with Invited Speaker Michela Massimi, Philosophy as a Way of Life", Perspectives 8 (1): 31–34, doi:10.2478/pipjp-2018-0004 
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 "Michela Massimi", Members (Academia Europaea), https://www.ae-info.org/ae/Member/Massimi_Michela, retrieved 2021-02-15 ; see also attached curriculum vitae
  7. ↑ "Why philosophy of science matters to science", Wilkins–Bernal–Medawar Prize Lecture (Royal Society), May 2018, https://royalsociety.org/science-events-and-lectures/2018/05/wilkins-bernal-medawar-prize-lecture/, retrieved 2021-02-15 
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 Michela Massimi wins the 2023 Lakatos Award, The London School of Economics and Political Science, 6 July 2023, https://www.lse.ac.uk/philosophy/blog/2023/07/06/michela-massimi-wins-the-2023-lakatos-award/, retrieved 2024-08-13 
  9. ↑ Reviews of Pauli's Exclusion Principle:
  10. ↑ Reviews of Kant and Philosophy of Science Today:
  11. ↑ Review of Philosophy and the Sciences for Everyone:
  12. ↑ Reviews of Kant and the Laws of Nature:
  13. ↑ Reviews of Understanding Perspectivism:
  14. ↑ Massimi, Brown, and Jaspars, Michela, Abbe E.L., Marcel (2026). Ways of World Knowing. Local Knowledge, Coastal Communities, and Equitable Ocean Governance. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780197815335. 



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