Events in Italy
2024 forthcoming events
15 November 2024, Società Filosofica Italiana - Sezione FVG
Paul Feyerabend: tra scienza e filosofia and Decolonisation
Un'analisi del pensiero del filosofo viennese nel centenatio della nascita
Interventi di Matteo Collodel e Francesco de Stefano
Modera Daniele Bertacco
Venerdì 15 novembre - Libreria Friuli, Via dei Rizzani 11, Udine - ore 18:00
Recent centennial and past events
8 August 2024, Sapienza University of Rome
Feyerabend and Decolonisation
Contributed paper by Sean Muller (Republic of South Africa)
Thursday, 8 August - CU028 | Botanica | Aula Blu 2 - 16:00-16:20
8 August 2024, Sapienza University of Rome
Le Statut des Mythes en Science CHEZ Feyerabend
Contributed paper by Phillippe Nguemeta (Republic of Cameroon)
Thursday, 8 August - CU003 | Lettere e filosofia | Aula "Rosario Romeo" - 15:20-15:40
5 August 2024, Sapienza University of Rome
Paul Feyerabend’s Philosophy of Science 100th
Invited session organized by Babette Babich - with: Babette Babich, Paul Hoyningen-Huene, Matteo Collodel, Steve Fuller, Massimo Pigliucci
Celebrating the 100th anniversary of Paul Feyerabend (1924-1994), the Vienna-born physicist and philosopher of science, speakers on this panel will address his radical philosophy of science in Against Method and Science in a Free Society, including his posthumous reflections in The Conquest of Abundance and the intersection of aesthetics and science.
Babette Babich, “Feyerabend, Style, Riegl, and Misogyny”
Massimo Pigliucci, “Feyerabend and the Problem of Pseudoscience”
Steve Fuller, “Prolegomena to Feyerabendian Research Ethics”
Paul Hoyningen-Huene, “Kuhn and Feyerabend —Personally and Professionally”
Matteo Collodel, “Funarchism: Feyerabend’s Dadaist Theory of Knowledge as a Humanism”
Monday, 5 August - CU003 | Lettere e filosofia | Aula "Manlio Smonetti" - 17:00-19:00
2-3 August 2024, Sapienza University of Rome
Science in a Free Society. On the 100th Centenary of Paul Feyerabend
Invited session organized by Ilya Kasavin - with: Alexander Ruser, Olga Stoliarova, Jan Schmidt, Ivana Renic, Elena Chebotareva, Lada Shipovalova, Tatiana Sokolova, Eugeniy Maslanov, Liana Tukhvatulina, Alexandra Argamakova
The basic scientific research today is supported and controlled by the state. The state itself has acquired unprecedented means of controlling citizens in the digital age. Often, citizens themselves perceive this control as a result of the development of science and technology, considering scientists as “authoritative experts”, and science as a denial of all other cultural traditions. The economic power due to science and technology allows a number of the most developed countries to direct international life in line with their interests. The opposite trend connects the decolonization ideology with the justification of cultural and political diversity, with the ideas of “citizen science”, “garage science”, “post-normal science”, “transdisciplinarity” etc. Feyerabend made a sharp criticism of science and the politics based on it.
Friday, 2 August - CU005 | Geologia e Mineralogia | Aula "Sergio Lucchesi" - 13:00-15:00
Saturday, 3 August - CU002 | Giurisprudenza | Aula T02 - 9:00-11:00
3-5 July 2024, University of Milan
The Legacy of Paul Feyerabend
International conference
10-11 May 2024, Museo Pasqualino and Steri of the University of Palermo
Cinquant'anni dopo Contro il Metodo
Convegno interdisciplinare in occasione del centenario della nascita di Paul K. Feyerabend
Two days of exchanges among physicists, anthropologists, ecologists, philosophers and musicians.
March 6, 2024 at 14:00, RAI Radio 3
Paul K. Feyerabend
A broadcast by Telmo Pievani for the programme "Wikiradio-- Le voci della storia" of the Italian cultural radio Rai Tre. The broadcast can be accessed from this link.
17 January 2024, University of Trento
Leggendo insieme "Contro il metodo. Abbozzo di una teoria anarchica della conoscenza” di Paul Feyerabend
Conferenza/Incontro del Circolo dei lettori - Introduce: Valter Moretti (Dipartimento di Matematica, Università di Trento)
Il "Circolo dei lettori" è un'iniziativa organizzata dal corso di laurea in Filosofia dell'Università di Trento con l’obiettivo di "fare filosofia" insieme ai colleghi insegnanti delle scuole superiori, al fine di creare un collegamento più stretto tra università e scuola. Gli incontri, che si svolgono con cadenza mensile, consistono nella discussione di temi filosofici a partire dai grandi classici del pensiero, ma anche da testi inerenti a tematiche più attuali.
16 June 2023, IMT Lucca
International Conference
Pierluigi Barrotta, Gustavo Cevolani, Luca Tambolo - Opening Remarks
John Preston (Reading) - Feyerabend, Experts, and Dilettantes
Pierluigi Barrotta (Pisa) and Roberto Gronda (Pisa), "Wisdom, Scientific Expertise, and Laypeople. Some Remarks on Paul Feyereabend’s Philosophy of Expertise"
Eleonora Montuschi (Venice) and Paolo Bodini (Venice), "Lay Expertise and Representative Democracy"
Steve Fuller (Warwick), "Expertise as the Conquest of Abundance: Some Feyerabendian Meditations"
Luca Tambolo (Independent) and Gustavo Cevolani (IMT School). "Science on Demand: Lessons from the Di Bella Case"
Karim Bschir (St. Gallen), "Epistemic Pluralism at the Science-Policy Interface"
Piero Avitabile (IMT School) and Alessandro Demichelis (IMT School), "Should we Trust Arguments Ab Auctoritate?"
4 November 2022, University of Trento
La passione dell'intelligenza. A trent’anni dalle “lezioni trentine” di Paul K. Feyerabend (1992-2022)
Giornata di studi
Massimiano Bucchi (Università di Trento), “Libera Scienza in Libero Stato. Ricordi di uno studente del corso di Feyerabend”
Matteo Collodel (Università Ca’ Foscari, Venezia), “Il piacere della contraddizione. L’edonismo critico di Paul Feyerabend”
Stefano Gattei (Università di Trento), “Il Galileo di Feyerabend”
Roberta Corvi (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milano), “La complessità della conoscenza. Spunti da Feyerabend”