
Michele Luchetti
Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow (Apr 2022-Mar 2023)
Dr.
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.
Projects
Validating Quantitative Constructs before Construct Validation: The Case of Early Psychophysics
Selected Publications
Luchetti, Michele (2021). “Coordination in Theory Extension: How Reichenbach Can Help Us Understand Endogenization in Evolutionary Biology.” Synthese 199 (3): 9855–9880. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-021-03228-y.
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Luchetti, Michele (2021). “Constitutive Elements in Science beyond Physics: The Case of the Hardy-Weinberg Principle.” Synthese 198 (Suppl. 14): S3437–S3461. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-018-1833-5.
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Luchetti, Michele (2020). “From Successful Measurement to the Birth of a Law: Disentangling Coordination in Ohm’s Scientific Practice.” Studies in History and Philosophy of Science. Part A 84 (December): 119–131. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.shpsa.2020…
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Presentations, Talks, & Teaching Activities
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