Biography:Michela Massimi
Michela Massimi | |
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| Alma mater | London School of Economics and Political Science |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Philosophy of science |
| Institutions | University of Edinburgh |
| Thesis | Pauli's exclusion principle : a philosophical perspective (2002) |
| Doctoral advisor | Michael Redhead |
Michela Massimi is an Italian and British philosopher of science,[1] a professor of philosophy at the University of Edinburgh, and the president-elect of the Philosophy of Science Association.[2] Her research has involved scientific perspectivism and perspectival realism,[3] the Pauli exclusion principle, and the work of Immanuel Kant.[4]
Education and career
Massimi has dual Italian and British citizenship.[4] 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.[5]
She was co-editor-in-chief of the British Journal for the Philosophy of Science from 2011 to 2016, and has been elected as 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".[6]
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.[5]
Books
Massimi is the author of Pauli’s Exclusion Principle: The Origin and Validation of a Scientific Principle (Cambridge University Press, 2005).[7]
Her edited volumes include:
- Kant and Philosophy of Science Today (Cambridge University Press, 2008)[8]
- Philosophy and the Sciences for Everyone (Routledge, 2014)[9]
- Kant and the Laws of Nature (with Angela Breitenbach, Cambridge University Press, 2017)[10]
- Understanding Perspectivism: Scientific Challenges and Methodological Prospects (with Casey D. McCoy, Routledge, 2019)[11]
- Knowledge from a Human Point of View (with Ana-Maria Creţu, Springer, 2020)
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Michela Massimi: Bio, https://www.michelamassimi.com/bio/, retrieved 2021-02-15
- ↑ 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
- ↑ Ball, Philip (24 May 2018), "Questioning truth, reality and the role of science", Quanta Magazine, https://www.quantamagazine.org/questioning-truth-reality-and-the-role-of-science-20180524/
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 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
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 "Michela Massimi", Members (Academia Europaea), https://www.ae-info.org/ae/Member/Massimi_Michela, retrieved 2021-02-15; see also attached curriculum vitae
- ↑ "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
- ↑ Reviews of Pauli's Exclusion Principle:
- "Principles and quantum revolutions", Metascience 15 (3): 573–577, September 2006, doi:10.1007/s11016-006-9045-x
- "none", British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 60 (1): 235–238, March 2009, doi:10.1093/bjps/axn056
- MacKinnon, Edward (December 2006), "none", Isis 97 (4): 773–774, doi:10.1086/512904
- Ryckman, Thomas (July 2007), "none", Kantian Review 12 (2): 187–189, doi:10.1017/s1369415400001023
- Staley, Kent W. (September 2007), "none", The British Journal for the History of Science 40 (3): 455–457, doi:10.1017/S0007087407000210
- ↑ Reviews of Kant and Philosophy of Science Today:
- Pollok, Konstantin (August 2010), "Review", Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, https://ndpr.nd.edu/news/kant-and-philosophy-of-science-today/
- Stan, Marius (Fall 2011), "none", HOPOS: The Journal of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science 1 (2): 364–367, doi:10.1086/661208
- ↑ Review of Philosophy and the Sciences for Everyone:
- Rojas Durán, Edgar Eduardo (January–June 2016), "Review" (in es), Signos Filosóficos 18 (35): 203–206, https://philpapers.org/archive/DURMMP.pdf
- ↑ Reviews of Kant and the Laws of Nature:
- Leech, Jessica (October 2018), "Review", Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, https://ndpr.nd.edu/news/kant-and-the-laws-of-nature/
- McNulty, Michael Bennett (May 2018), "none", Kantian Review 23 (2): 338–343, doi:10.1017/s1369415418000110
- Pluder, Michael (May 2020), "none" (in de), Kant-Studien 111 (2): 326–329, doi:10.1515/kant-2020-0027
- Winegar, Reed (April 2018), "Review", Journal of the History of Philosophy 56 (2): 377–378, doi:10.1353/hph.2018.0040, https://muse.jhu.edu/article/690721
- ↑ Reviews of Understanding Perspectivism:
- Matthews, Lucas J. (November 2019), "Review", Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, https://ndpr.nd.edu/news/understanding-perspectivism-scientific-challenges-and-methodological-prospects/
- Rueger, Alexander (February 2020), "Some perspective on perspectivism", Metascience 29 (2): 193–196, doi:10.1007/s11016-020-00501-7
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