Costanza Coloni

Dissertation Title: A Bridge Between Approximation and Truth 

Supervisor: Hasok Chang

Advisor: Tim Lewens 

College: Newnham (AHRC & Newnham College Scholarship)

Teaching (Supervisions)

Part II Paper 5: Epistemology and Metaphysics of Science (2024/2025, 2025/2026) 

Part II Paper 6: Ethical Issues in Psychiatry (2023/2024, 2024/2025) 

Publications 

Coloni C., (2026). The need for truth-in-practice, PSA: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association (forthcoming) 

Esposito E., Hofmann D., Coloni C., (2024). CAN A PREDICTED FUTURE STILL BE AN OPEN FUTURE? ALGORITHMIC FORECASTS AND ACTIONABILITY IN PRECISION MEDICINE, History and Theory, 63 (1), p. 4–24

Selected talks

«Truthlikeness, Approximate Truth and the Problem of Informativeness», EPSA (Groningen), 2025 [Symposium]

«Three Problems for a Simple Picture of Approximation», BSPS (Glasgow), 2025

«Truth and its approximations: A dynamic relationship», East European Network for Philosophy of Science (Kraków), 2024

Other roles 

Co-organizer of the online workshop  'Philosophy of Science in Practice — in practice' (here you can find a report of the event: https://sway.cloud.microsoft/Et71m6wUBR3wMy90?ref=email&loc=play)

Co-convenor of the OX-CAM-LON Philosophy of Medicine Society (Oxford, Cambridge, London) 

MCR Speaker Series Officer (Newnham)

Previous Experience

MA Philosophical Sciences (University of Bologna) — Erasmus Project (LMU Munich), Visiting Research Stay (Bielefeld University)

University of Bielefeld, Student Assistant within the ERC Project 'PREDICT, The Social Consequences of Algorithmic Forecast in Insurance, Medicine and Policing' (Grant 833749) 

BA Philosophy (University of Bologna)