Michele Luchetti

Michele Luchetti studied philosophy at the University of Milan and, as a graduate student, at the Central European University in Budapest, obtaining his PhD in 2020 with a dissertation on conceptual change in science. In 2017–18, he was a DAAD-funded Visiting Fellow at the Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy at the LMU Munich. In 2020–21, he was a Swiss Government Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Geneva, where he worked on the relationship between nineteenth-century craniological measurement and views of intelligence. Michele’s current project analyzes construct validation and measurement issues in the context of the origin of psychophysical concepts in the second half of the nineteenth century. At the MPIWG, he is a visiting Postdoctoral Fellow in the Research Group Practices of Validation in the Biomedical Sciences. In addition to his academic research, Michele is a theater practitioner and teacher. His artistic research focuses on theater practice and pedagogy as tools to explore the connections between (scientific) knowledge, ritual, and society from an embodied perspective.