Seminar MWP masterclass: Revisiting Heuristics for Discovery Add to calendar 2025-11-06 10:00 2025-11-06 12:00 Europe/Rome MWP masterclass: Revisiting Heuristics for Discovery Emeroteca Badia Fiesolana YYYY-MM-DD Print Share: Share on Facebook Share on BlueSky Share on X Share on LinkedIn Send by email Scheduled dates Nov 06 2025 10:00 - 12:00 CET Emeroteca, Badia Fiesolana Organised by Max Weber Programme for Postdoctoral Studies This year the Kohli prize for sociology goes to Professor Peter S. Bearman for his exceptional scholarly contributions to the sociology of movements, networks, health, and science. His work stands out for his remarkable ability to address important questions by bridging theory and empirical research. In 2018, in response to a prompt about discovery, I wrote a short essay for 'Sociologica' with the title (assigned to me) 'Heuristics for discovery'. A simpler title would have been: how do we pick the problems that turn out to be good problems to Qwork on? This seminar revisits some of the ideas in the original paper, explores them in more detail, and adds a few elements to the toolkit with the idea of helping us all pick problems to work on that turn out to be good problems to have picked. Register Attachments Kohli Award Ceremony - Programme .jpg