Michela Massimi

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Michela Massimi
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]

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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] and she won the Lakatos Award of the London School of Economics in 2023 for her 2022 book Perspectival Realism. [7]

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) [8] and Perspectival Realism (Oxford University Press, 2022). [7]

Her edited volumes include:

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References

  1. 1 2 Michela Massimi: Bio , retrieved 2021-02-15
  2. 1 2 3 "Michela Massimi, Professor", Staff profiles, University of Edinburgh, retrieved 2021-02-15
  3. ↑ Ball, Philip (24 May 2018), "Questioning truth, reality and the role of science", Quanta Magazine (Interview)
  4. 1 2 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 , S2CID   214625173
  5. 1 2 "Michela Massimi", Members, Academia Europaea, retrieved 2021-02-15; see also attached curriculum vitae
  6. ↑ "Why philosophy of science matters to science", Wilkins–Bernal–Medawar Prize Lecture, Royal Society, May 2018, retrieved 2021-02-15
  7. 1 2 The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) (6 July 2023). "Michela Massimi wins the 2023 Lakatos Award". The London School of Economics and Political Science. Retrieved 2024-08-13.
  8. ↑ Reviews of Pauli's Exclusion Principle:
  9. ↑ Reviews of Kant and Philosophy of Science Today:
    • Pollok, Konstantin (August 2010), "Review", Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews
    • Stan, Marius (Fall 2011), HOPOS: The Journal of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science, 1 (2): 364–367, doi:10.1086/661208, JSTOR   10.1086/661208 {{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
  10. ↑ Review of Philosophy and the Sciences for Everyone:
    • Rojas Durán, Edgar Eduardo (January–June 2016), "Review" (PDF), Signos Filosóficos (in Spanish), 18 (35): 203–206
  11. ↑ Reviews of Kant and the Laws of Nature:
  12. ↑ Reviews of Understanding Perspectivism:
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