Michela Massimi is Professor of Philosophy of Science at the University of Edinburgh. Massimi works on general philosophy of science, history and philosophy of modern physics, Kant's philosophy of nature and Kantianism in philosophy of science. She is Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society and Member of the Academia Europaea. She served as Vice-President of the European Philosophy of Science Association (2015-2019) and she is currently President-Elect of the Philosophy of Science Association. From 2016 to 2021 she was the Principal Investigator of the ERC Consolidator Grant "Perspectival Realism".

She provides interesting and substantial reframing/rethinking of some key issues that have emerged in past realist/anti-realist debates, arguing for the contemporary cosmopolitan scientist's "rights and obligations" to share scientific knowledge and its benefits.

• Part I. PERSPECTIVAL MODELLINGChapter 1. The short tale of a long journeyChapter 2. The perspectival nature of scientific representation Chapter 3. Pluralism and perspectivism Chapter 4. Perspectival modelling as modelling possibilities Chapter 4.a: A tale from the atomic nucleus ca. 1930s-1950sChapter 4.b: A tale from the ice, the sea and the land: climate modellingChapter 4.c: A tale from the development of language in childrenChapter 5. Inferential blueprints and windows on reality Part II. THE WORLD AS WE PERSPECTIVALLY MODEL IT Chapter 6. From data to phenomena Chapter 7. Natural Kinds with a Human Face Chapter 8. The inferentialist view of natural kinds Chapter 9. Sorting phenomena into kindsChapter 10. Evolving natural kindsChapter 11. Multiculturalism and Cosmopolitanism in science

Michela Massimi is Professor of Philosophy of Science at the University of Edinburgh. Massimi works on general philosophy of science, history and philosophy of modern physics, Kant's philosophy of nature and Kantianism in philosophy of science. She is Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society and Member of the Academia Europaea. She served as Vice-President of the European Philosophy of Science Association (2015-2019) and she is currently President-Elect of the Philosophy of Science Association. From 2016 to 2021 she was the Principal Investigator of the ERC Consolidator Grant "Perspectival Realism".

She provides interesting and substantial reframing/rethinking of some key issues that have emerged in past realist/anti-realist debates, arguing for the contemporary cosmopolitan scientist's "rights and obligations" to share scientific knowledge and its benefits.

• Part I. PERSPECTIVAL MODELLINGChapter 1. The short tale of a long journeyChapter 2. The perspectival nature of scientific representation Chapter 3. Pluralism and perspectivism Chapter 4. Perspectival modelling as modelling possibilities Chapter 4.a: A tale from the atomic nucleus ca. 1930s-1950sChapter 4.b: A tale from the ice, the sea and the land: climate modellingChapter 4.c: A tale from the development of language in childrenChapter 5. Inferential blueprints and windows on reality Part II. THE WORLD AS WE PERSPECTIVALLY MODEL IT Chapter 6. From data to phenomena Chapter 7. Natural Kinds with a Human Face Chapter 8. The inferentialist view of natural kinds Chapter 9. Sorting phenomena into kindsChapter 10. Evolving natural kindsChapter 11. Multiculturalism and Cosmopolitanism in science

Michela Massimi is Professor of Philosophy of Science at the University of Edinburgh. Massimi works on general philosophy of science, history and philosophy of modern physics, Kant's philosophy of nature and Kantianism in philosophy of science. She is Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society and Member of the Academia Europaea. She served as Vice-President of the European Philosophy of Science Association (2015-2019) and she is currently President-Elect of the Philosophy of Science Association. From 2016 to 2021 she was the Principal Investigator of the ERC Consolidator Grant "Perspectival Realism".

She provides interesting and substantial reframing/rethinking of some key issues that have emerged in past realist/anti-realist debates, arguing for the contemporary cosmopolitan scientist's "rights and obligations" to share scientific knowledge and its benefits.

• Part I. PERSPECTIVAL MODELLINGChapter 1. The short tale of a long journeyChapter 2. The perspectival nature of scientific representation Chapter 3. Pluralism and perspectivism Chapter 4. Perspectival modelling as modelling possibilities Chapter 4.a: A tale from the atomic nucleus ca. 1930s-1950sChapter 4.b: A tale from the ice, the sea and the land: climate modellingChapter 4.c: A tale from the development of language in childrenChapter 5. Inferential blueprints and windows on reality Part II. THE WORLD AS WE PERSPECTIVALLY MODEL IT Chapter 6. From data to phenomena Chapter 7. Natural Kinds with a Human Face Chapter 8. The inferentialist view of natural kinds Chapter 9. Sorting phenomena into kindsChapter 10. Evolving natural kindsChapter 11. Multiculturalism and Cosmopolitanism in science