Coming up at LMU Munich: workshop on AI & consciousness, organized by Prof. Sven Nyholm (@svennyholm.bsky.social) & colleagues, on Nov 21. Speakers include Prof. Joanna Bryson (@j2bryson.bsky.social) & Prof. Tobias Schlicht (Bochum). Register here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... #aiethics

LMU Munich is advertising a new W2 Professorship in Philosophy Education. Deadline: 15 Nov 2025. For more information, and to apply, follow this link: job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/b... #philosophy #education #professorship #academicjob #lmumunich

LMU Munich is looking to fill a W2 Professorship in Philosophy Education. The role involves research, teaching, and the design of a new study program in philosophy/ethics. Deadline: 15 Nov 2025. Apply here: job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/b...

Join us for a talk by @svennyholm.bsky.social (LMU): "Moral Principles for Human-Human Interaction, Human-AI Interaction, and AI-AI Interaction" Mathematikon (Lecture Hall), Heidelberg Wednesday, 12 November, 6pm Details: www.uni-heidelberg.de/de/veranstal...

New publication by LMU philosophy researcher Benjamin Lange: "We need accountability in human-AI relationships": doi.org/10.1038/s443... #aiethics

Today I received a physical copy of the Korean translation of my book This is Technology Ethics. Thanks to Yongwoo Yi for bringing it to me all the way from South Korea! Thanks again, most of all, to Junsik Yoon and Joseph HB Park for translating the book! #AIEthics #philosophy

New book from LMU's Professor of the Philosophy of Religion, Sebastian Gäb: Philosophy of Religion, out now from Nomos: www.nomos-shop.de/en/p/philoso... #philosophy #religion

LMU Munich Metaphysics Colloquium David Papineau (Kings College London) 'Causal Inference and the Metaphysics of Causation' 22.10.2025, 16:00 to 18:00, in Ludwigstraße 31, Room 021

Out now: *The Ethics of Behavior Change Technologies*, edited by Joel Anderson, Lily Frank & Andreas Spahn, featuring "Control, personal autonomy and behaviour change technologies", by me: www.bloomsburycollections.com/monograph-de... #philosophy #technologyethics #aiethics

LMU Munich invites applications for a W2 Professorship in Philosophy Education, starting in October 2026. We are looking for candidates with an outstanding research record in philosophy and a strong profile in philosophy education. Deadline: 15 November 2025: job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/b...

LMU Munich's Chair of Metaphysics, Prof Dr Alyssa Ney, joins Roger Penrose and Jacob Barandes in a debate about one of quantum theory's biggest mysteries: the collapse of the wave function, here: iai.tv/video/the-co... #philosophy

Newly published: "Learning How to Vote with Principles: Axiomatic Insights Into the Collective Decisions of Neural Networks", by Levin Hornischer and Zoi Terzopoulou, Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, 2025, doi.org/10.1613/jair...

Newly published: Lead article “Factual Difference-Making”, by Holger Andreas and Mario Günther, Australasian Philosophical Review, 2025, doi.org/10.1080/2474...

Newly published: "Can AI systems have free will?", by Christian List, Synthese, 2025, link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Are you teaching or taking an ethics of technology course this fall? Whether or not you're using my *This is Technology Ethics* book, you might find this 10-episode podcast (w/ the same title as the book) by ‪@johndanaher.bsky.social‬ & me useful: technologyethicspod.wordpress.com #aiethics

🎥 Who gets the credit, or the blame, when AI makes decisions? Sven Nyholm ( #LMU/ #MCML) reflects on how AI challenges our ideas of agency, credit, and blame — and why we need new ways of thinking about authorship, justice, and decision-making. www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUqi... #AI #Ethics

Newly published: "The Worrisome Potential of Outsourcing Critical Thinking to Artificial Intelligence", by Ron Aboodi, Educational Theory, 2025, onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

Georg Ellis explains his ideas about a "Fine Tuned Universe". A wonderful highlight of this summer's lecture series at CAS! (Re)Watch now on YouTube: #cosmology www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6Xw...

Dazu wie die Quantenmechanik funktioniert, gibt es in der Wissenschaft unterschiedliche Positionen. Stephan Hartmann, #CASSchwerpunkt "Bayesian Methods" sagt @szde.bsky.social: "Die Wellenfunktion ist nichts, was da draußen existiert." @lmu-mcmp.bsky.social www.sueddeutsche.de/projekte/art...

Just accepted: ‘The Impossibility of Non-manipulable Probability Aggregation’ – Franz Dietrich & Christian List Abstract in alt text or read the full paper here: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/... #philsci #philsky

Congratulations and all the best wishes to our author Sebastian Bender @lmuphilosophy.bsky.social dailynous.com/2025/07/10/b...

Excited to share that the volume Lakatos @ 100 has just been published (open access)! It’s a great collection on Lakatos’s legacy. 📘 Book link: link.springer.com/book/10.1007... Grateful to the editors for including me! #Lakatos #PhilosophyOfScience #Bayes #OpenAccess

Coming soon: *Social Robots and Cultural Sustainability*, edited by Raul Hakli, me, Marco Nørskov & Sladjana Nørskov. Featuring chapters by @coeckelbergh.bsky.social, @davidgunkel.bsky.social @annapuzio.bsky.social etc. Planned publication date: Oct 27, 2025 www.amazon.com/Culturally-S... #aiethics

Just arrived in Munich for a workshop at @lmuphilosophy.bsky.social on “It from Bit” and the metaphysics of John Archibald Wheeler. Very much looking forward to the talks and discussion! @alyssaney.bsky.social #philsky #philsci

Thrilled to announce that Sebastian Bender is joining LMU Munich as Professor of Early Modern Philosophy. His expertise in 17th-18th c. metaphysics & epistemology (Leibniz, Spinoza, Kant) will boost our History of Philosophy section. Welcome, Sebastian! sebastianbender.net

Out now: A Companion to Applied Philosophy of A (edited by Regina Müller & Martin Hähnel), featuring my contribution "The Future of Human Responsibility: AI, Responsibility Gaps, and Asymmetries Between Praise and Blame": doi.org/10.1002/9781... #aiethics #philosophy

"Do our observations make reality happen?" - new article in *Nature* by LMU Munich's Chair of Metaphysics, Professor Alyssa Ney. Check it out here: www.nature.com/articles/d41... #philosophy #lmumunich #metaphysics

Thanks for following me here on Bluesky! Here a link to my podcast on the History of Philosophy "without any gaps": www.historyofphilosophy.net And to the corresponding book series from Oxford University Press: global.oup.com/academic/con...

Just submitted the revised manuscript for HoPWaG volume 8, Philosophy in the Reformation! This is the version that will go to press, so I hope it will be out by the end of the year. This is based on episodes 371-461 of the podcast, without the interviews of course; it will be 73 chapters long.

***Coming up next week (June 3-5): the 2025 Munich Lectures in Ethics: Professor David Enoch (Oxford/Hebrew University of Jerusalem) on "Autonomy, Consent, Liberalism". With commentators Prof. Dorothea Gädeke, Prof. Rae Langton & Prof. Robert Simpson. More info here: eveeno.com/MLE25 #philosophy ***

Newly published: "Belief revision based on information states: hyperintensionality, fragmentation, and consistency", by Sena Bozdag, Doctoral Dissertation, LMU Munich, 2025, edoc.ub.uni-muenchen.de/35073/

Recently published: "Information-Theoretic Concepts in Physics", special issue of Entropy, edited by Michael E. Cuffaro and Stephan Hartmann, 2025 www.mdpi.com/journal/entr...

New preprint, with Hannes Leitgeb @lmu-mcmp.bsky.social: "Explaining Neural Networks with Reasons". ➡️We propose a new faithful and scalable interpretability method for neural networks. 💡Based on a novel mathematico-philosophical theory of reasons. arxiv.org/abs/2505.14424 philpapers.org/rec/HORENN

Just released by the Institute of Art and Ideas (@iai.tv): Stephan Hartmann (of @lmumuenchen.bsky.social) on why "A theory of everything will never work at all scales" "Reality is fundamentally different at different sizes."

Coming up at @lmuphilosophy.bsky.social: the 2025 Munich Lectures in Ethics with Prof. David Enoch (of @ox.ac.uk, @oxfordlawfac.bsky.social & @hebrewuniversity.bsky.social), on “Autonomy, Consent, Liberalism”, with comments by Profs Dorothea Gädeke, Rae Langton and Robert Simpson. Spread the word!

Continuing the MCMP's thread of recent publications: "Axioms for type-free subjective probability", by Cezary Cieśliński, Leon Horsten, and Hannes Leitgeb, Review of Symbolic Logic, 2024, doi.org/10.1017/S175...

We continue the MCMP's series of recent publications: "Quantum Computing", by Michael Cuffaro and Amit Hagar, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2024, plato.stanford.edu/archives/spr...

We'll introduce ourselves to Bluesky with a series of posts about recent publications coming out of the MCMP. Here is the first post: "Logical norms as defeasible obligations: disentangling sound and feasible inferences", by Matteo De Benedetto and Alessandra Marra, Inquiry, 2024

Another recent publication from the MCMP: "What is a mathematical structure of conscious experience?", by @johanneskleiner.bsky.social and Tim Ludwig, Synthese, 2024 doi.org/10.1007/s112...

The Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy at LMU Munich is now on Bluesky. Please help us spread the word. #Philosophy #Mathematics #Science #Logic

New paper, out now: "More love troubles: Emma Gordon on biomedical enhancements and love relationships". I revisit arguments from my 2015 paper "Love Troubles" in response to Emma Gordon's recent engagement w/ my views: link.springer.com/article/10.1... #philosophy #HumanEnhancement #love