My research is based in philosophy of science, where I am interested in the epistemic role of technology, scientific change, evidence-based policy (e.g. Canali & Lohse, 2024; Canali & Barone-Adesi, 2023; Lohse & Canali, 2021); the philosophy and ethics of data and information, where I am interested in the epistemic consequences of digital technologies, their broader ethical and social implications, AI and ML in science (e.g. Canali et al., 2022; 2023; Falcetta et al., 2023); philosophy of medicine, where I am interested in the datafication of health and digital medicine, conceptualisations of the environment and exposure, the epidemiology of the exposome (e.g. Canali, 2024; 2023; Canali & Leonelli, 2022).

Publications
​
2025

• Canali, S., & Ratti, E. (2025). Between quantity and quality: competing views on the role of Big Data for causal inference. In P. Illari & F. Russo (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Causality and Causal Methods (pp. 407–418). Routledge. 
  

2024

• Hesselbein, C., Bory, P., & Canali, S. (2024). Metaverse datafication: technologies, definitions, and futures. Information, Communication & Society, online first, online first, 1-15.
• Hesselbein, Bory, Canali. (2024). Six provocations for metaverse datafication: an emergent cultural, technological, and scholarly phenomenon. Information, Communication & Society, online first, 1-19.
• Bernasconi, Angelucci, Canali, Aliverti. (2024). Exploring air pollution awareness: Insights from interviews with technology enthusiasts using wearable monitoring devices. Frontiers in Public Health, 12:1468662.
• Fayet, Bonnin, Canali, Giroux. (2024). Putting the exposome into practice: an analysis of the promises, methods and outcomes of the European Human Exposome Network. Social Science & Medicine, online first, 117056.
• Canali, Ferretti, Schiaffonati, Blasimme, A. (2024). Wearable Technologies for Healthy Ageing: Prospects, Challenges, and Ethical Considerations. Journal of Frailty & Aging, 13, 149–156.
• Canali. (2024). Conoscere la medicina: Strumenti filosofici. Carocci editore. 
• Canali & Lohse. (2024). How to move beyond epistemic battles: Pluralism and contextualism at the science-society interface. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 11(1), 98. 

2023

• Canali & Hesselbein. (2023). Using and Interpreting FemTech Data: (Self-)Knowledge, Empowerment, and Sovereignty. In L. A. Balfour (Ed.), FemTech. Intersectional Interventions in Women’s Digital Health (pp. 291–319). Palgrave Macmillan.
• Angelucci, Canali, Aliverti (2023). Digital technologies for step counting: between promises of reliability and risks of reductionism. Frontiers in Digital Health, 5:1330189.
• Canali & Barone-Adesi (2023). Can AI deliver advice that is judgement-free for science policy? Nature, 624, 252.
• Falcetta, Pavan, Canali, Schiaffonati, Roveri. To Personalize or Not To Personalize? Soft Personalization and the Ethics of ML for Health, 2023 IEEE 10th International Conference on Data Science and Advanced Analytics, 1-10.
• Canali, De Marchi, Aliverti. (2023). Wearable Technologies and Stress: Toward an Ethically Grounded Approach. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 20(18), 6737.
• Canali (2023). Which Integration for Health? Comparing Integrative Approaches for Epidemiology. In É. Giroux, F. Merlin, & Y. Fayet (Eds.), Integrative Approaches in Environmental Health and Exposome Research: Epistemological and Practical Issues (pp. 101–127). Springer International Publishing. 
• Angelucci, Greco, Canali, Marelli, et al. (2023). Fitbit Data to Assess Functional Capacity in Patients Before Elective Surgery: Pilot Prospective Observational Study. Journal of Medical Internet Research, 25, e42815.
• Barone-Adesi & Canali (2023). Lasciarsi Merton alle spalle, ma per andare in quale direzione? Epidemiologia & Prevenzione, 47(1–2). 
• Greco, Angelucci, Avidano, Marelli, Canali, et al. (2023). Wearable Health Technology for Preoperative Risk Assessment in Elderly Patients: The WELCOME Study. Diagnostics, 13(4), 630-643.

2022

• ​Canali, Schiaffonati, Aliverti (2022) Challenges and recommendations for wearable devices in digital health: data quality, interoperability, health equity, fairness. PLOS Digital Health, 1(10), e0000104.
• Alessandra Angelucci, Ziyue Li, Niya Stoimenova, & Canali, S. (2022) The Paradox of the Artificial Intelligence System Development Process: the Use Case of Corporate Wellness Programs using Smart Wearables. AI & Society.
• Canali (2022) A Pragmatic Approach to Scientific Change: Transfer, Alignment, Influence. European Journal for Philosophy of Science, 12, 48.
• Canali & Leonelli (2022) Reframing the Environment in Data-Intensive Health Sciences. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, 93, 203-214 – Special issue “What counts as environment in biology and medicine: Historical, philosophical and sociological perspectives”.

2021

• Lohse & Canali (2021) Follow *the* science? On the marginal role of the social sciences in the COVID-19 pandemic. European Journal for the Philosophy of Science,11, 99.
• Staunton,Barragán, Canali, Ho, Leonelli, Littler, Mayernik, Prainsack, Wonkham (2021) Open science, data sharing and solidarity: who benefits? History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences, 43, 115.
• Canali & Piroddi (2021): Introduction: The philosophy, ethics, and politics of epidemiology today, MEFISTO. Rivista di Medicina, Filosofia, Storia, 5 (1), 55-64.
• Jukola & Canali (2021). On evidence fiascos and judgments in COVID-19 policy. History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences, 43 (61).
• ​Canali (2021). COVID-19: dati e qualità. inTrasformazione - Rivista di Storia delle Idee.

2020

• Canali & Jukola (2020). Näyttöön perustuvan pandemiapolitiikan haaste (The Challenges of Evidence-Based Pandemic Policy). Tiede & edistys, 3/2020, 212-227.
• ​Canali (2020) Towards a Contextual Approach to Data Quality. Data 5(4), 90 – Special Issue "Data Quality and Data Access for Research".
• Canali (2020) What is New about the Exposome? Exploring Scientific Change in Contemporary Epidemiology. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 17(8), 2879 – Special Issue "The Exposome: State-of-the-Art and Future Perspectives".
• Canali (2020) Making Evidential Claims in Epidemiology: Three Strategies for the Study of the Exposome. Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, 82, 101248​.

2019

• Canali (2019) Evaluating evidential pluralism in epidemiology: mechanistic evidence in exposome research. History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences, 41(4).
• Kelly, Clarke, Ghiara, Russo, Bockting, Boniolo, Canali, et al. (2019). Time to care: why the humanities and the social sciences belong in the science of health. BMJ Open.

2016

• ​Canali (2016) Big Data, epistemology and causality: Knowledge in and knowledge out in EXPOsOMICS. Big Data & Society, 3(2).​