Michela Massimi
Professor
- Philosophy
- School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences
Contact details
- Tel: 0131 650 3662
- Email: Michela.Massimi@ed.ac.uk
- Web: https://www.michelamassimi.com/
Address
- Street
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Room 7.13
- City
- 40 George Square, Edinburgh
- Post code
- EH8 9JX
Background
Michela Massimi joined Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh in July 2012. Before joining Edinburgh, Michela taught for seven years at UCL in the Dept. of Science and Technology Studies. She completed her PhD at the LSE in 2002, and in 2002-2005 she was Junior Research Fellow at Girton College, University of Cambridge. Michela is the recipient of the Royal Society 2017 Wilkins-Bernal-Medawar Medal Lecture for her interdisciplinary interests in and communication of philosophy and science. In 2018 Michela was elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and in 2019 Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society and Member of the Academia Europaea. Michela was Co-Editor in Chief of "The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science" (2011-2016), and Vice President of the European Philosophy of Science Association (2015-2019). She is currently President-Elect of the Philosophy of Science Association (PSA) with her two-year presidency coming up in 2023-24. For her research profile, cv, and up-to-date list of publications, see her personal webpage above.
Books
- Perspectival Realism (monograph), under contract with Oxford University Press (expected publication in 2021)
- Knowledge from a Human Point of View (co-edited with Ana-Maria Cretu), Springer Synthese Library, Open Access: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007%2F978-3-030-27041-4#toc
- Understanding Perspectivism. Scientific Challenges and Methodological Prospects (co-edited with Casey D. McCoy, Routledge Open Access 2019): https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9781315145198
- Kant and the Laws of Nature (co-edited with Angela Breitenbach CUP 2017)
- Pauli’s Exclusion Principle (CUP 2005)
- Kant and Philosophy of Science Today (edited, CUP 2008)
- Philosophy and the Sciences for Everyone (edited, Routledge, 2014)
Responsibilities & affiliations
- PPLS School Research Director
- Research Cluster in Philosophy of Science
- Project Leader and Convenor for the Philosophy and the Sciences MOOC
Undergraduate teaching
Michela has organised and taught the following courses at Edinburgh:
- Philosophy of Science Online MSc
- Advanced Topics in Philosophy of Science
- Science, Nature and Social Values
- Realism, Relativism and Reality
- Contemporary Debates in Philosophy of Science
- Philosophy of Science I
In 2021/22 Michela will teach:
* Philosophy Science and Policy (Y3 course)
Office hours:
- By appointment. Please send me an email.
Current PhD students supervised
- Kezhen Chen (Economics Y2, second supervisor) : https://www.ed.ac.uk/profile/kezhenchen
- Farhad Alavi (Philosophy Y1, Lead)
Past PhD students supervised
- Lorenzo Spagnesi (Lead) - completed in 2021
- Franklin Jacoby (Lead) - completed in 2019
- Nicholas Rebol (Lead) - completed in 2019
- Sander Klaasse (School of Divinity) - completed in 2019
- Laura Jimenez (Lead) - completed in 2019
- Ana-Maria Cretu (Lead supervisor) - completed in 2018
- Anna Ortin Nadal (second supervisor) - completed in 2018
- Andrea Polonioli (co-supervisor) - completed in 2016
Research summary
Philosophy of Science, History of Philosophy, Kant
For an up-to-date CV, list of publications and links to pre-prints of articles, please consult Prof Massimi's personal website: https://www.michelamassimi.com/
Knowledge exchange
For a full list of past and present KE events, please consult Prof. Massimi's personal website: https://www.michelamassimi.com/
Current project grants
Prof Massimi has been the Principal Investigator of an ERC Consolidator Grant "Perspectival Realism. Science, knowledge and truth from a human vantage point", 2016-2021 (€1.6 million).
For the activities of the project and relevant details please see: www.perspectivalrealism.org
Past project grants
Prof Massimi was the Principal Investigator of a Leverhulme Trust International Network "Kant and the Laws of Nature" (2012-2015).
For the activities of the project and relevant info, please see: www.kantandlaws.wordpress.com