New paper by Dr. Louis Longin, Professor Ophelia Deroy, and colleagues in Cognition: "AI is not as conscious as humans: Essentialism in mental state attributions to artificial systems" www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #philosophyofmind #ai #consciousness
LMU Munich Philosophy Faculty
@lmuphilosophy.bsky.social
Faculty of Philosophy, Philosophy of Science and Religious Studies, LMU Munich
Check out this new podcast interview with Professor Stephan Hartmann, LMU's Chair of the Philosophy of Science, about social epistemology and group deliberation (see below for links): #podcast #philosophy #socialepistemology #groupdeliberation
Here is three great podcast with Stephan Hartmann on the rationality and shortcomings of deliberation. Listen to it! @lmuphilosophy.bsky.social #philsci
Hey #HoPWaG fans, don't forget to check out our new spinoff podcast on cross-cultural philology!
It launched a few days ago with three initial episodes, on philology and science; the Cain and Abel story; and the ancient language Aramaic!
A feast of philosophy for you this weekend! We have the third installment of our 500th episode celebration, in which I talk to Troels Engberg-Pedersen about St Paul and the Stoics:
Christian List: Can AI systems have free will? https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.15407 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2609.15407 https://arxiv.org/html/2609.15407
Professor Sven Nyholm replies to Moti Mizrahi's review of his recent book, in a back-and-forth hosted by the Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective, here: social-epistemology.com/2026/10/02/r... #aiethics #philosophy
Professor Peter Adamson is launching a new spin-off podcast series based on his History of Philosophy without any Gaps podcast: the "Pages of History" podcast: www.pagesofhistory.net #podcast #historyofphilsophy #philology #nogaps
New short paper by Prof. Sven Nyholm, about whether it is possible to co-author texts with LLMs: "Who or what am I co-authoring with if I am co-authoring a text with a large language model? AI authorship and the elusive author problem": jmepb.bmj.com/content/2/3/... #aiethics #philosophy #authorship
Professor Peter Adamson's original History of Philosophy without any Gaps podcast series has reached 500 episodes: historyofphilosophy.net See also Prof. Adamson's spin-off series on the Histories of Africana Philosophy, Chinese Philosophy, Classical Indian Philosophy. #podcast #philosophy #nogaps
To celebrate I'll be releasing five episodes over the next two weeks with interviews on topics I skipped in earlier series. First up, Sappho with Marguerite Johnson!
Coming soon: podcast interview with Professor Stephan Hartmann, chair of the philosophy of science at LMU Munich, conducted by Professor Edouard Machery (see below).
Postdoc opportunities at LMU Munich's Faculty of Philosophy's Chair of Metaphyics: 3 Postdoc Positions in Metaphysics of Quantum Physics. Please share this with anybody who might be interested. See below: #metaphysics #postdoc
Professor Stephan Hartmann, LMU's Chair of Philosophy of Science, (@stephanhartmann.bsky.social) will deliver the Grünbaum Memorial Lecture at the University of Pittsburgh, "The Open Systems View" (see below): www.centerphilsci.pitt.edu/event/annual... #philosophy #philosophyofscience
New podcast interview with Professor Sven Nyholm (@svennyholm.bsky.social) about his recent book *The Ethics of Artificial Intelligence: A Philosophical Introduction* (Hackett, 2026) and related topics. See below. #aiethics #philosophy
Newly published: Open Systems: Physics, Metaphysics, and Methodology, edited by Michael E. Cuffaro and Stephan Hartmann, Oxford University Press, 2026: global.oup.com/academic/pro...
New review of Professor Sven Nyholm's 2026 book *The Ethics of Artificial Intelligence: A Philosophical Introduction*: journals.uvic.ca/index.php/pi...
