Michele Luchetti
Postdoctoral Fellow (2022–2024)
Dr.
Michele Luchetti was a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Max Planck Research Group Practices of Validation in the Biomedical Sciences from April 2022 to March 2024. As part of the Research Group, he worked on how practices of validation were conceived and implemented before validity became an explicit methodological category. In particular, his work focused on the emergence of quantitative measurement in nineteenth-century psychophysics. His research has been published in several international research journals, and he edited a topical collection on “Validity and Coordination in the Biomedical and Human Sciences” for the journal History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences. Following his time at the MPIWG, Michele joined the University of Bielefeld in 2024 as a postdoctoral researcher in the history and philosophy of science and medicine. His academic research combines insights from philosophy, history, and the performing arts to investigate issues related to measurement, conceptual change, and knowledge practices in science and medicine. Beside his academic work, Michele is a theater practitioner and uses theater laboratories as collective research tools aimed at symbolic expression and social integration.
Projekte
Validating Quantitative Constructs before Construct Validation: The Case of Early Psychophysics
Selected Publications
De Benedetto, Matteo and Michele Luchetti (2024). “Theory Choice as Niche Construction: The Feedback Loop Between Scientific Theories and Epistemic Values.” Philosophy of Science 91 (3): 741–758. https://doi.org/10.1017/psa.2023.160.
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Brausch, Simon and Michele Luchetti (2023). “Coordination and Validity in Measurement across Science and Medicine: Historical and Epistemological Perspectives. Berlin, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, March 23th, 2023 [Conference Report].” In H-Soz-Kult. https://www.hsozkult.de/conferencereport/id/fdkn-137942.
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De Benedetto, Matteo and Michele Luchetti (2023). “Specialisation by Value Divergence: The Role of Epistemic Values in the Branching of Scientific Disciplines.” International Studies in the Philosophy of Science 36 (2): 121–141. https://doi.org/10.1080/02698595.2023.2233822.
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Past Events
Seminar
In Search of Biomedical Validity: Towards a Cross-Disciplinary History of Validation Practices
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In Search of Biomedical Validity: Towards a Cross-Disciplinary History of Validation Practices
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Coordination and Validity in Measurement across Science and Medicine: Historical and Epistemological Perspectives
MOREPresentations, Talks, & Teaching Activities
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Philosophy of Science Lecture Series
University of Hamburg, Formalize 4 Workshop
University of Belgrade, EPSA23
University of Bern, Symposium of the Swiss Philosophical Society
Biennial Meeting of the International Society for the History, Philosophy, and Social Studies of Biology, University of Toronto Symposium, together with Simon Brausch, Sam Ducourant, Alfred Freeborn, Ariane Hanemaayer, Lara Keuck, and Hanna Worliczek
University of Cambridge, Early-Career Workshop in Philosophy of Measurement
28th Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association, University of Pittsburgh
Triennial Meeting of the German Society for Philosophy of Science, TU Berlin
The Kuhn Centennial Conference, University of Kent
Measurement at the Crossroads 2022, Catholic University of Milan
Invited talk at the University of Lisbon, Research & Development Unit of the Centro de Filosofia das Ciencias da Universidade de Lisboa (CFCUL)
Thick Concepts in Philosophy of Science Workshop, University of Hannover
Philosophy and Science Symposium at the Section of Biology, University of Geneva
Biennial meeting of the European Philosophy of Science Association (EPSA), University of Turin
VII Congrès de la Société de Philosophie des Sciences, University of Mons
Annual meeting of the British Society for the Philosophy of Science (BSPS), University of Kent