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Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy @lmu-mcmp.bsky.social · 2h

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

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

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Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften (BAdW) @badw.de · 28d

Can AI systems have free will? - das fragt unser Mitglied
@clist.bsky.social im folgenden #OpenAccess - Artikel:

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#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...

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Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy @lmu-mcmp.bsky.social · 29d

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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Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy @lmu-mcmp.bsky.social · Sep 4

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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Majid D. Beni @majidbeni.bsky.social · Sep 8

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

Can AI systems have free will?

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Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy @lmu-mcmp.bsky.social · Sep 4

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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Munich Center for Machine Learning @munichcenterml.bsky.social · Aug 6

🎥 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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Levin Hornischer @levinhornischer.bsky.social · Aug 6

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.

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Christian List @clist.bsky.social · Sep 2

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...

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Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy @lmu-mcmp.bsky.social · Aug 11

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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Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy @lmu-mcmp.bsky.social · Aug 7

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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Stephan Hartmann @stephanhartmann.bsky.social · Jul 19

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

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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Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy @lmu-mcmp.bsky.social · Aug 22

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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Stephan Hartmann @stephanhartmann.bsky.social · Jul 8

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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Stephan Hartmann @stephanhartmann.bsky.social · Jun 13

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...

APS Awards 2025 Patrick Suppes Prize in Philosophy of Science, largest book prize in Philosophy, to Dr. Alyssa Ney | American Philosophical Society

The American Philosophical Society has awarded the 2025 Patrick Suppes Prize in Philosophy to Dr. Alyssa Ney for her book The World in the Wave Function: A Metaphysics for Quantum Physics (Oxford Univ...

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Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy @lmu-mcmp.bsky.social · Jul 29

Here is a summer read from the MCMP.

Stephan Hartmann @stephanhartmann.bsky.social · May 22

Is a final theory of everything still the goal—or has science moved on? In this piece for IAI, I reflect on what effective field theories teach us about explanation, emergence, and realism.
🔗 iai.tv/articles/a-t...
#PhilosophyOfScience #EFTs #Reductionism #Emergence #Realism #ScienceThreads

A theory of everything will never work at all scales

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Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy @lmu-mcmp.bsky.social · Aug 11

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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Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy @lmu-mcmp.bsky.social · Aug 11

Another summer read from the MCMP.

Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy @lmu-mcmp.bsky.social · Apr 25

Just released by the Institute of Art and Ideas (@iai.tv): Christian List (of @lmumuenchen.bsky.social) on why "Science as we know it won’t explain consciousness"

"None of the physical and behavioural markers of consciousness that scientists study get to the heart of what consciousness is."

Consciousness reveals there's no single objective world | Christian List

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Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy @lmu-mcmp.bsky.social · Aug 7

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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Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy @lmu-mcmp.bsky.social · Aug 6

Newly published: "Gauge Theories in Physics", by John Dougherty, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2024,
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Gauge Theories in Physics (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)

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Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy @lmu-mcmp.bsky.social · Aug 6

Newly published: "Gauge Theories in Physics", by John Dougherty, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2024,
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Gauge Theories in Physics (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)

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Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy @lmu-mcmp.bsky.social · Aug 4

Here is another summer read from the MCMP.

Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy @lmu-mcmp.bsky.social · Jun 15

Newly published: "Do our observations make reality happen?", by Alyssa Ney, Nature, 2025, www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Do our observations make reality happen?

Finally answering the most-vexed question in quantum theory might mean redefining what is real.

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Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy @lmu-mcmp.bsky.social · Aug 4

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

From why-why-why to global justice

Political philosopher Laura Valentini asks fundamental questions about human coexistence. Now she is receiving the Princess Therese of Bavaria Prize.

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Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy @lmu-mcmp.bsky.social · Aug 4

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.
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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.

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Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy @lmu-mcmp.bsky.social · Aug 4

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/...

Winners of Princess Therese of Bavaria Prize 2025

This year, the Princess Therese of Bavaria Foundation has recognized outstanding female researchers from the spheres of culture and the humanities at LMU.

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