Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy

Philosophy of machine learning at the MCMP We investigate machine learning and artificial intelligence in the tradition of scientific philosophy embodied by the MCMP.

Philosophy of machine learning at the MCMP www.philosophie.lmu.de/mcmp/en/rese...

The project is joint with Martin Fischer at the MCMP, and is funded by the AHRC and the DFG. A brief description is available on the project web page:

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List on AI and Free Will Christian List has posted Can AI systems have free will? on the Springer website. Here is the abstract: 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 sketch a framework for thinking about this question, inspired by Daniel Dennett’s work.

List on AI and Free Will

Christian List has posted Can AI systems have free will? on the Springer website. Here is the abstract: 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…

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...

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...

In the philosophy lab Hannes Leitgeb is an LMU philosopher and winner of the Leibniz Prize. He investigates truth and rationality and under which conditions artificial intelligence arrives at reasonable decisions.

"In the philosophy lab" - new interview with Professor Hannes Leitgeb (Chair of Logic and Philosophy of Language), here: www.lmu.de/en/newsroom/... #philosophy #mathematics #mathematicalphilosophy

Christian List, Why science as we know it can’t explain consciousness - PhilArchive This is the manuscript of an opinion piece published on the webpage of the Institute of Art and Ideas on 24 April 2025 under the title “Consciousness reveals there's no single ...

An open-access preprint is available here: philarchive.org/rec/LISWSA-2

Please join us on 02.09.26 at 11 a.m. for our next Colloquium with Stephan Hartmann from Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (LMU Munich).

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#bhi #blackholeinitiative #bhicolloquium #blackhole #harvard #StephenHartmann
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Consciousness reveals there's no single objective world <p><em>Does reality contain only physical things? Or could everything be conscious, as panpsychists claim? Philosopher Christian List argues it’s time to move beyond both sides of this debate. Conscio...

Does reality contain only physical things? Or could everything be conscious, as panpsychists claim? | https://bit.ly/4a7tHtl

Christian List argues it’s time to move beyond both sides of this debate, and that consciousness reveals reality cannot be captured by a single, objective description.

A decidable class of inferences in first-order objective Bayesian inductive logic We show that while standard first-order inductive logic is not decidable, a large class of inferences in objective Bayesian inductive logic is decidab…

Newly published: "A decidable class of inferences in first-order objective Bayesian inductive logic", by Jürgen Landes, Soroush Rafiee Rad, and Jon Williamson, Annals of Pure and Applied Logic, 2026, doi.org/10.1016/j.ap...

Weiße Rose-Vorlesung: Demokratie braucht Handelnde – jeden Tag Die Vorlesung der Journalistin und Buchautorin Natalie Amiri war keine klassische Vorlesung – es war ein leidenschaftliches Plädoyer, aktiv zu werden, um die Demokratie in Deutschland zu verteidigen.

#WeißeRoseGedächtnisvorlesung an der #LMU: @natalieamiri.bsky.social ruft zum Handeln auf. „Die Aussage, ein einzelner könne nichts ausrichten, ist keine Wahrheit, sondern eine Ausrede.“ Standing Ovations im Audimax. #Demokratie braucht Handelnde – jeden Tag. 🕊️ #WeißeRose www.lmu.de/de/newsroom/...

New on the Archive:

Sterkenburg, Tom F. (2025) Values in machine learning: What follows from underdetermination? [Preprint]

https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/27570/

New on the Archive:

DeBrota, John B. and List, Christian (2026) A Heptalemma for Quantum Mechanics. [Preprint]

https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/27977/

New on the Archive:

Cuffaro, Michael E. (2025) Methodological Realism and Quantum Mechanics. [Preprint]

https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/27340/

New on the Archive:

Weinberger, Naftali (2025) Homeostasis and Causal Control. [Preprint]

https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/27481/

Robustness and trustworthiness in AI: a no-go result from formal epistemology - Synthese Synthese - A major issue for the trustworthiness of modern AI-models is their lack of robustness. A notorious example is that putting a small sticker on a stop sign can cause AI-models to classify...

Newly published: "Robustness and trustworthiness in AI: a no-go result from formal epistemology", by Levin Hornischer, Synthese, 2026, doi.org/10.1007/s112...

Robustness and trustworthiness in AI: a no-go result from formal epistemology - Synthese Synthese - A major issue for the trustworthiness of modern AI-models is their lack of robustness. A notorious example is that putting a small sticker on a stop sign can cause AI-models to classify...

Newly published: "Robustness and trustworthiness in AI: a no-go result from formal epistemology", by Levin Hornischer, Synthese, 2026, doi.org/10.1007/s112...

A decidable class of inferences in first-order objective Bayesian inductive logic We show that while standard first-order inductive logic is not decidable, a large class of inferences in objective Bayesian inductive logic is decidab…

Newly published: "A decidable class of inferences in first-order objective Bayesian inductive logic", by Jürgen Landes, Soroush Rafiee Rad, and Jon Williamson, Annals of Pure and Applied Logic, 2026, doi.org/10.1016/j.ap...

Newly published: "Unreasonable Doubt. How Strategic Science Skeptics Exploit the Argument from Disagreement", by Alexander Reutlinger (@lmumuenchen.bsky.social), Philosophy of Science (@philscijournal.bsky.social), 2026
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Newly published: "Unreasonable Doubt. How Strategic Science Skeptics Exploit the Argument from Disagreement", by Alexander Reutlinger (@lmumuenchen.bsky.social), Philosophy of Science (@philscijournal.bsky.social), 2026
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Postdoc opportunities: The MCMP's Chair of Logic and Philosophy of Language (Prof. Hannes Leitgeb) at @lmumuenchen.bsky.social advertises two Postdoc positions (deadline 31 Jan 2026). See job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/7...

PhD opportunities: The MCMP's Chair of Logic and Philosophy of Language (Prof. Hannes Leitgeb) at @lmumuenchen.bsky.social advertises two PhD positions (deadline 7 Feb 2026). See job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/5...

PhD opportunities: The MCMP's Chair of Logic and Philosophy of Language (Prof. Hannes Leitgeb) at @lmumuenchen.bsky.social advertises two PhD positions (deadline 7 Feb 2026). See job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/5...

Postdoc opportunities: The MCMP's Chair of Logic and Philosophy of Language (Prof. Hannes Leitgeb) at @lmumuenchen.bsky.social advertises two Postdoc positions (deadline 31 Jan 2026). See job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/7...

Great Research Day of my Faculty at the Siemens Stiftung on Friday: excellent talks by Hannes Leitgeb, Andrew Stephenson, Christof Rapp, Ignacio Ojea Quintana, and Thomas Oehl, plus a PhD poster session and a discussion on AI in philosophy led by Sven Nyholm. Thanks to all who contributed.

The LMU Munich chair of metaphysics is advertising a PhD position. For details, see below: #phdopportunity #philosophy #metaphysics

Newly published: "Interview with Christian List", in Catherine Herfeld (@cherfeld.bsky.social), Conversations on Rational Choice, @universitypress.cambridge.org, 2025, philpapers.org/archive/LISI...

Newly published: "Metabolic considerations for cognitive modeling", by Philipp Haueis and David Colaço, Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 2025, www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Great news from the MCMP: Tom Sterkenburg has received the Karl-Heinz Hoffmann Award from the Bavarian Academy of Sciences.

A terrific and well-deserved recognition of his work on induction, statistics, and machine learning! badw.de/en/die-akade...

Happy holidays from the Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy at @lmumuenchen.bsky.social!

Newly published: "Interview with Christian List", in Catherine Herfeld (@cherfeld.bsky.social), Conversations on Rational Choice, @universitypress.cambridge.org, 2025, philpapers.org/archive/LISI...