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Newly published: "Metabolic considerations for cognitive modeling", by Philipp Haueis and David Colaço, Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 2025, www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Metabolic considerations for cognitive modeling | Behavioral and Brain Sciences | Cambridge Core
Metabolic considerations for cognitive modeling
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November 21, 2025 at 9:08 AM
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The 2026 application round for the MA in Logic and Philosophy of Science at @lmumuenchen.bsky.social is now open. Please help us spread the word. www.philosophie.lmu.de/en/study/deg...
Master in Logic and Philosophy of Science
Our Master (MA) program in Logic and Philosophy of Science was founded in October 2012. It is an international MA program of the Faculty of Philosophy, Philosophy of Science and Religious Studies at L...
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November 17, 2025 at 9:59 AM
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Newly published: "What Follows from all that Data?", by Hykel Hosni and Jürgen Landes, Journal of Applied Logics, 2025, collegepublications.co.uk/admin/downlo...
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November 17, 2025 at 10:57 AM
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The 2026 application round for the MA in Logic and Philosophy of Science at @lmumuenchen.bsky.social is now open. Please help us spread the word. www.philosophie.lmu.de/en/study/deg...
Master in Logic and Philosophy of Science
Our Master (MA) program in Logic and Philosophy of Science was founded in October 2012. It is an international MA program of the Faculty of Philosophy, Philosophy of Science and Religious Studies at L...
www.philosophie.lmu.de
November 17, 2025 at 9:59 AM
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Newly published: "What are Extremal Axioms?", by Nicola Bonatti, Philosophia Mathematica, 2025, doi.org/10.1093/phil...
What are Extremal Axioms?
Abstract. Extremal axioms impose a condition of either minimality or maximality on the admissible models of an axiomatic theory. In this paper, I propose a
doi.org
October 8, 2025 at 11:23 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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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!

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The preferences concerning three alternatives (apple, banana, cherries) of three stylized individuals are fed into a stylized neural network. The network outputs a ranking of the three alternatives as the aggregated preference of the group. It selects the top ranked alternative, in this case the apple. In the bottom right, there are two stylized scientists wondering if this network is 'anonymous', 'biased', and 'cycle-free' in its preference aggregation.
August 6, 2025 at 5:55 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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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.
A DEFENSE OF LOGICISM | Bulletin of Symbolic Logic | Cambridge Core
A DEFENSE OF LOGICISM - Volume 31 Issue 1
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September 9, 2025 at 11:34 AM
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🚀Join us for an interdisciplinary deep-dive into the questions of a fine-tuned universe.

October 29–31, 2025 at MIAPbP, Boltzmannstraße 2, Garching
Workshop "The Fine Tuned Universe – A New Cosmology?“ is organized in cooperation with the ORIGINS Excellence Cluster.

www.cas.lmu.de/de/veranstal...
The Fine Tuned Universe - A New Cosmology?
Workshop in the context of the CAS Research Focus
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October 24, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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Newly published: "Still No Peace on the Lattice", by Sébastien Rivat, Philosophy of Physics, 2025, doi.org/10.31389/pop...
Still No Peace on the Lattice | Philosophy of Physics
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October 15, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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Our Metaphysics Colloquium Series begins next week!

22 Oct 25: Prof David Papineau (Kings College London), Causal Inference and the Metaphysics of Causation
October 15, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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Newly published: "Still No Peace on the Lattice", by Sébastien Rivat, Philosophy of Physics, 2025, doi.org/10.31389/pop...
Still No Peace on the Lattice | Philosophy of Physics
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October 15, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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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...
Bertrand Russell’s Transition to the Higher-Order Theory of Existence
Abstract. I argue that, in the period 1910–15, Bertrand Russell’s theory of existence is inconsistent with his theory of acquaintance. This inconsistency n
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October 9, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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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.
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The collapse of the wave function
'The collapse of the wave function' is a phrase we see constantly in relation to quantum physics. Whilst many claim to understand what it means, its true character remains unknown. A century ago, Heis...
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September 14, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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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
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...
link.springer.com
September 10, 2025 at 7:56 AM
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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...
Bertrand Russell’s Transition to the Higher-Order Theory of Existence
Abstract. I argue that, in the period 1910–15, Bertrand Russell’s theory of existence is inconsistent with his theory of acquaintance. This inconsistency n
doi.org
October 9, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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Newly published: "What are Extremal Axioms?", by Nicola Bonatti, Philosophia Mathematica, 2025, doi.org/10.1093/phil...
What are Extremal Axioms?
Abstract. Extremal axioms impose a condition of either minimality or maximality on the admissible models of an axiomatic theory. In this paper, I propose a
doi.org
October 8, 2025 at 11:23 AM
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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.
A DEFENSE OF LOGICISM | Bulletin of Symbolic Logic | Cambridge Core
A DEFENSE OF LOGICISM - Volume 31 Issue 1
doi.org
September 9, 2025 at 11:34 AM
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Newly published: "Fragmented justification", by Hannah Pillin, Synthese, 2025, link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Fragmented justification - Synthese
This article presents a fragmented account of justification. The account is motivated via an example from climate science where, within the IPCC assessment report for climate change, an overall incons...
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September 4, 2025 at 12:21 PM
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An excellent paper by Christian List in the Synthese special issue on Daniel Dennett's philosophy. rdcu.be/eEUYO
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September 8, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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Newly published: "Fragmented justification", by Hannah Pillin, Synthese, 2025, link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Fragmented justification - Synthese
This article presents a fragmented account of justification. The account is motivated via an example from climate science where, within the IPCC assessment report for climate change, an overall incons...
link.springer.com
September 4, 2025 at 12:21 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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#AI #Ethics
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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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?
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...
link.springer.com
September 2, 2025 at 11:54 AM