Michela Massimi is an Italian and British philosopher of science,[1] a professor of philosophy at the University of Edinburgh, and the president-elect of the Philosophy of Science Association.[2] Her research has involved scientific perspectivism and perspectival realism,[3] the Pauli exclusion principle, and the work of Immanuel Kant.[4]
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Alma mater | London School of Economics and Political Science |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Philosophy of science |
Institutions | University of Edinburgh |
Thesis | Pauli's exclusion principle : a philosophical perspective (2002) |
Doctoral advisor | Michael Redhead |
Massimi has dual Italian and British citizenship.[4] 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.[5]
She was co-editor-in-chief of the British Journal for the Philosophy of Science from 2011 to 2016, and has been elected as president of the Philosophy of Science Association for the 2023–2024 term.[2]
Massimi was the Wilkins–Bernal–Medawar Medalist and Lecturer of the Royal Society in 2017, speaking on "Why philosophy of science matters to science".[6]
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.[5]
Massimi is the author of Pauli’s Exclusion Principle: The Origin and Validation of a Scientific Principle (Cambridge University Press, 2005).[7]
Her edited volumes include:
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