keynote speakers

Fabrizio Baldassarri is currently a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice and Indiana University Bloomington, with a research project on the study of plants in early modern natural philosophy, entitled: “The Emergence of Science of Plants from Cesalpino to Malpighi.” He has published a monograph on Descartes’s medical studies (Il metodo al tavolo anatomico. Descartes e la medicina, Roma 2021) and two volumes, one on the notion of vegetative powers throughout the centuries with Springer, and one on the history of medicine. He has edited several special issues, on Early Science and Medicine, on the Journal of Early Modern Studies, and on Nuncius. He has widely published on Descartes’s studies, on on botany in early modern natural philosophy, and on gardens.
Jutta Schickore is Ruth N. Halls Professor of History and Philosophy of Science and Medicine at Indiana University. Her research interests include philosophical and scientific debates about scientific methods in the past and present, particularly about (non)replicability, failure, error, and negative results; historical and philosophical aspects of microscopy; and the relation between history and philosophy of science. Her latest book is About Method: Experimenters, Snake Venom, and the History of Writing Scientifically (University of Chicago Press, 2017).
Stathis Psillos is Professor of Philosophy of Science and Metaphysics at the University of Athens (Greece), and associate faculty at the Rotman Institute of Philosophy (Canada). He is the author of over 100 papers and reviews, and published several books, including the award winning The Routledge Companion to the Philosophy of Science, with Martin Curd, (Routledge, 2008 — Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2008), and Causation and Explanation, (Acumen, 2002 & McGill-Queens University Press, 2003 — Prize of the Presidents of the British Society for the Philosophy of Science for the best textbook in the Philosophy of Science). He is currently the editor of the journal Metascience. He was among the founders of European Philosophy of Science Association.  His research interests include scientific realism, causation, explanation and the history of philosophy of science.