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Faculty of Philosophy, Philosophy of Science and Religious Studies, LMU Munich
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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
AI & Consciousness at LMU
Date: November 21st, 2025 (09:30 until 17:30) Location: LMU München, Leopoldstraße 13, 80802 München, Room 2102. Please register until 18th of November 2025.
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November 10, 2025 at 11:07 AM
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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
Professorship (W2) of Philosophy Education
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November 10, 2025 at 10:10 AM
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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...
Professorship (W2) of Philosophy Education
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October 1, 2025 at 11:35 AM
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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...
Moral Principles for Human-Human Interaction, Human-AI Interaction, and AI-AI Interaction - Universität Heidelberg
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November 8, 2025 at 10:34 AM
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New publication by LMU philosophy researcher Benjamin Lange: "We need accountability in human-AI relationships": doi.org/10.1038/s443...

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We need accountability in human–AI agent relationships - npj Artificial Intelligence
We argue that accountability mechanisms are needed in human-AI agent relationships to ensure alignment with user and societal interests. We propose a framework according to which AI agents’ engagement...
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November 6, 2025 at 10:31 AM
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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
October 31, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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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
Philosophy of Religion
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October 28, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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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
October 21, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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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
October 3, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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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...
Professorship (W2) of Philosophy Education
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October 1, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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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
September 17, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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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...
Learning How to Vote with Principles: Axiomatic Insights Into the Collective Decisions of Neural Networks | Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research
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August 7, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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Newly published: Lead article “Factual Difference-Making”, by Holger Andreas and Mario Günther, Australasian Philosophical Review, 2025, doi.org/10.1080/2474...
Factual Difference-Making
In this paper, we analyse causation in terms of factual difference-making. Factual difference-making is an alternative to counterfactual difference-making which does not face the problem of redunda...
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August 11, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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Newly published: "Can AI systems have free will?", by Christian List, Synthese, 2025, link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Can AI systems have free will? - Synthese
While there has been much discussion of whether AI systems could function as moral agents or acquire sentience, there has been very little discussion of whether AI systems could have free will. I sket...
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August 22, 2025 at 10:19 AM
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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
Technology Ethics Podcast
A podcast-based introduction to the philosophy and ethics of technology
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August 29, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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🎥 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.

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What is intelligence—and what kind of intelligence do we want in our future? With Prof. Sven Nyholm
YouTube video by MCML_Munich Center for Machine Learning
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August 6, 2025 at 8:05 AM
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Newly published: "The Worrisome Potential of Outsourcing Critical Thinking to Artificial Intelligence", by Ron Aboodi, Educational Theory, 2025, onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
The Worrisome Potential of Outsourcing Critical Thinking to Artificial Intelligence
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July 2, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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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:

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George Ellis - CAS Lecture Series Cosmology - A Fine Tuned Universe: Issues, Evidence, Implications
YouTube video by Center for Advanced Studies LMU
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July 15, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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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."
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Quantenphysik: Gibt es eine objektive Realität?
Die Quantenmechanik bleibt selbst Physikern ein Rätsel. Gibt es eine Realität auch ohne Beobachtung? Und wo bleibt da der freie Wille?
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July 17, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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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/...

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ABSTRACT. A probability aggregation rule assigns to each profile of probability functions across a group of individuals (representing their individual probability assignments to some propositions) a collective probability function (representing the group’s probability assignment). The rule is ‘non-manipulable’ if no group member can manipulate the collective probability for any proposition in the direction of his or her own probability by misrepresenting his or her probability function (‘strategic voting’). We show that, except in trivial cases, no probability aggregation rule satisfying two very mild conditions (non-dictatorship and consensus preservation) is non-manipulable.
July 17, 2025 at 9:15 AM
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Congratulations and all the best wishes to our author Sebastian Bender @lmuphilosophy.bsky.social
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Bender from Göttingen to LMU Munich - Daily Nous
Sebastian Bender, currently "juniorprofessor" at the University of Göttingen, will be moving to Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU Munich), where he will be professor of early modern philosop...
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July 14, 2025 at 12:35 PM
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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!

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Proofs and Research Programmes: Lakatos at 100
This open access book offers new insights into issues raised in philosophy of mathematics and in philosophy of science by Imre Lakatos.
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July 19, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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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
Culturally Sustainable Social Robotics (Social and Cultural Studies of Robots and AI)
Culturally Sustainable Social Robotics (Social and Cultural Studies of Robots and AI) [Hakli, Raul, Nyholm, Sven, Nørskov, Marco, Nørskov, Sladjana] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Culturally Sustainable Social Robotics (Social and Cultural Studies of Robots and AI)
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July 13, 2025 at 9:47 AM
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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

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Poster for a 2-day workshop: IT FROM BIT A Workshop on the Metaphysics of John Archibald Wheeler All talks held in Geschwister-Scholl-Platz 1, M210 Friday, 11 July 2025 900: Christopher Fuchs (U Mass Boston), "QBism and the Path to Wheelerizing Physics" 1100: Daniele Oriti (Complutense), "It-from-Bit and Gravity" 1400: George Webster (Oxford), ""It from Bit" as a Critical Idealist Proposal" 1500: Stefano Furlan (Utrecht), "Beyond the End of Time: Wheeler's Prolegomenon to "It from Bit"" 1615: Alyssa Ney (LMU), "Why Did Wheeler Reject the Everett Interpretation?" Saturday, 12 July 2025 900: Matthew Leifer (Chapman), "It from Bit from It" 1100: Graham Doke (Oxford), "From Bit to It to an Ontology for QBism" 1400: Victor Tremblay-Baillargeon (Montréal), "The Renderer's Dilemma: An Incompleteness Argument against It-from-Bit Ontology" 1500: John Dougherty (LMU), "It-from-Bit in QFT" 1615: Chris Timpson (Oxford), "It-from-Bit, Idealism, Fragmentalism, and Loneliness"
July 10, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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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
Sebastian Bender
I am an Assistant Professor (a tenure track "Juniorprofessor") at the Philosophy Department of University of Göttingen. Before coming to Göttingen, I held positions at Humboldt University in Berlin (w...
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July 8, 2025 at 3:38 PM