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...

LMU’s Alyssa Ney joins Roger Penrose & Jacob Barandes to debate one of the biggest mysteries in quantum theory: the collapse of the wave function. 🔗 iai.tv/video/the-co...

Newly published: "Bertrand Russell's transition to the higher-order theory of existence", by Wouter Cohen, Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, 2025, doi.org/10.1093/aris...

Newly published: "What are Extremal Axioms?", by Nicola Bonatti, Philosophia Mathematica, 2025, doi.org/10.1093/phil...

Can AI systems have free will? - das fragt unser Mitglied @clist.bsky.social im folgenden #OpenAccess - Artikel: link.springer.com/article/10.1... #KI #AI #KuenstlicheIntelligenz #ArtificialIntelligence #FreierWille #FreeWill #Philosophy #Philosophie

Newly published: "Bertrand Russell's transition to the higher-order theory of existence", by Wouter Cohen, Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, 2025, doi.org/10.1093/aris...

Newly published: "What are Extremal Axioms?", by Nicola Bonatti, Philosophia Mathematica, 2025, doi.org/10.1093/phil...

Logicism is the thesis that mathematics is reducible to logic and analytic truths. It has a long history, going back to Frege, Russell, and Whitehead, but it was subsequently rejected by others. In this recent paper, Hannes Leitgeb, Uri Nodelman, and Edward Zalta offer a new defence of logicism.

Newly published: "Fragmented justification", by Hannah Pillin, Synthese, 2025, link.springer.com/article/10.1...

An excellent paper by Christian List in the Synthese special issue on Daniel Dennett's philosophy. rdcu.be/eEUYO

Newly published: "Fragmented justification", by Hannah Pillin, Synthese, 2025, link.springer.com/article/10.1...

🎥 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

New paper in JAIR, with Zoi Terzopoulou: 'Learning How to Vote with Principles: Axiomatic Insights Into the Collective Decisions of Neural Networks' ❓Can neural nets find new voting rules to aggregate preferences? 💡Yes, by optimizing for axioms! jair.org/index.php/ja... philpapers.org/rec/HORLHT

To determine whether an AI system has free will, we shouldn't look for any mysterious property, ask if the system is unpredictable, or expect its algorithms to be indeterministic. We should ask: are there explanatory reasons to view the system as a choice-making agent with alternative possibilities?

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

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...

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

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

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

Big congratulations to Alyssa Ney for winning the 2025 Patrick Suppes Prize in Philosophy of Science! 🎉 Her book The World in the Wave Function: A Metaphysics for Quantum Physics just earned the APA’s top award. #PhilosophyOfScience #QuantumPhysics #CongratsAlyssa www.amphilsoc.org/news/aps-awa...

Here is a summer read from the MCMP.

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

Another summer read from the MCMP.

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: "Gauge Theories in Physics", by John Dougherty, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2024, plato.stanford.edu/entries/gaug...

Newly published: "Gauge Theories in Physics", by John Dougherty, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2024, plato.stanford.edu/entries/gaug...

Here is another summer read from the MCMP.

From why-why-why to global justice: LMU philosopher Laura Valentini asks fundamental questions about human coexistence. www.lmu.de/en/newsroom/...

Feeling what others feel: In a world battered by crises, what does empathy really mean? An interview with philosopher Monika Betzler on empathy and morality. www.lmu.de/en/newsroom/...

LMU philosophers Prof. Monika Betzler and Prof. Laura Valentini have each been awarded a Princess Therese of Bavaria Prize 2025. www.lmu.de/en/newsroom/...

From why-why-why to global justice: LMU philosopher Laura Valentini asks fundamental questions about human coexistence. www.lmu.de/en/newsroom/...

Feeling what others feel: In a world battered by crises, what does empathy really mean? An interview with philosopher Monika Betzler on empathy and morality. www.lmu.de/en/newsroom/...

LMU philosophers Prof. Monika Betzler and Prof. Laura Valentini have each been awarded a Princess Therese of Bavaria Prize 2025. www.lmu.de/en/newsroom/...

Here is another summer read from the MCMP.

Very happy to have co-organized our summer school with an amazing team 🥳 Thank you to the speakers and participants alike for making this such a nice event!

At this year's MCMP Summer School, we had wonderful lectures by Professors Francesca Boccuni (San Raffaele), Hilary Greaves (Oxford), and Alyssa Ney (LMU). Many thanks to our speakers and especially to the fabulous participants from all over the world! www.mathsummer.philosophie.uni-muenchen.de

Here is a summer read from the MCMP.

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

Newly published: "On the value of varied evidence for imprecise probabilities", by Jürgen Landes and Sébastien Destercke, Proceedings of the Fourteenth International Symposium on Imprecise Probabilities: Theories and Applications, PMLR 290:169-182, 2025, proceedings.mlr.press/v290/landes2...

Recently published: "A quadrilemma for theories of consciousness", by Christian List, Philosophical Quarterly, 2025, academic.oup.com/pq/article/7...

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

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...

Verpassen Sie dazu auch nicht das Podium am 21. Juli zum Thema "Essence of Life: Was weiß die Wissenschaft vom Leben" mit Andreas Burkert @lmumuenchen.bsky.social, Ahmad Milad Karimi @uni-muenster.de und Petra Schwille @mpibiochem.bsky.social. www.cas.lmu.de/de/veranstal...

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...

Levin Hornischer, Hannes Leitgeb: Explaining Neural Networks with Reasons https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.14424 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2505.14424 https://arxiv.org/html/2505.14424

Nice & accessible piece by Stephan Hartmann. I've long liked effective field theories, since their layered picture matches my preferred one for causal models: - "levels" correspond to zooming in/out - higher levels aggregate lower ones (under special conditions) - all models are scale relative

In episode 419, I talk with Dr. Christian List about his book, Why Free Will Is Real. #Philosophy youtu.be/XHmdhDjLGwA

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

Many thanks to Leah Henderson for giving insights into her use of Bayesian methods to explain the effects of polarization in our society. And thank you to Tom Sterkenburg @lmu-mcmp.bsky.social, spokesperson of the #CASResearchFocus “Bayesian Reasoning”, for chairing the event.

Newly published: "The Logic of Dynamical Systems Is Relevant", by Levin Hornischer and Francesco Berto, Mind, 2025, doi.org/10.1093/mind...