Michela Massimi
Italian-British philosopher of science
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Michela Massimi is an Italian and British philosopher of science.[1] Massimi is professor of philosophy of science at the University of Edinburgh. She was Vice President of the European Philosophy of Science Association (2015-9), and President of the Philosophy of Science Association (2023-4).[2] She has extensively published on topics such as realism in science, perspectival realism in philosophy of science,[3] local knowledge[4] and the philosophical-conceptual foundations of the right to participate in science.
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| Alma mater | London School of Economics and Political Science |
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| Fields | Philosophy of science |
| Institutions | University of Edinburgh |
| Thesis | Pauli's exclusion principle : a philosophical perspective (2002) |
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Education and career
Massimi has dual Italian and British citizenship.[5] After studying philosophy at Sapienza University of Rome from 1993 to 1997,[1] she completed a Ph.D. in 2002 at the London School of Economics, and after three years of postdoctoral research as a Junior Research Fellow at Girton College, Cambridge, she became a Lecturer in history and philosophy of science at University College London in 2005. She moved to the University of Edinburgh in 2012 and became professor there in 2015.[6]
She was co-editor-in-chief of the British Journal for the Philosophy of Science from 2011 to 2016, and was President of the Philosophy of Science Association for the 2023–2024 term.[2]
Recognition
Massimi was the Wilkins–Bernal–Medawar Medalist and Lecturer of the Royal Society in 2017, speaking on "Why philosophy of science matters to science,"[7] and she won the Lakatos Award of the London School of Economics in 2023 for her 2022 book Perspectival Realism.[8]
She was elected as Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 2018, and as Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society in 2019.[2] She was also elected to the Academia Europaea in 2019.[6]
Books
Massimi is the author of Pauli’s Exclusion Principle: The Origin and Validation of a Scientific Principle (Cambridge University Press, 2005)[9] and Perspectival Realism (Oxford University Press, 2022).[8]
Her edited volumes include:
- Kant and Philosophy of Science Today (Cambridge University Press, 2008)[10]
- Philosophy and the Sciences for Everyone (Routledge, 2014)[11]
- Kant and the Laws of Nature (with Angela Breitenbach, Cambridge University Press, 2017)[12]
- Understanding Perspectivism: Scientific Challenges and Methodological Prospects (with Casey D. McCoy, Routledge, 2019)[13]
- Knowledge from a Human Point of View (with Ana-Maria Creţu, Springer, 2020)
- Ways of World Knowing. Local Knowledge, Coastal Communities, and Equitable Ocean Governance (with Abbe E.L. Brown, Marcel Jaspars, Oxford University Press, 2026)[14]