Prof. Sven Nyholm (@svennyholm.bsky.social), LMU's Professor of the Ethics of AI, discusses AI in educational settings on the latest episode of the AITHOS podcast. Available on Spotify and other podcast sites: open.spotify.com/episode/3GbX... #aiethics #education
Today's new episode! Arnauld’s attack on Malebranche’s theory of the “vision in God” leads to a nuanced debate over the nature of ideas.
www.historyofphilosophy.net/arnauld-male...
#podcast #philosophy #philsky
Out now: New book from Prof. Peter Adamson (@histphilosophy.bsky.social): *A History of Philosophy without any Gaps, Vol. 8: Philosophy in the Reformation*: global.oup.com/academic/pro... #historyofphilosophy #nogaps #reformation #newbook
Call for papers: 1st Munich Workshop in Early Modern Philosophy, organized by Professor Sebastian Bender. Deadline May 17. More information here: www.philosophie.lmu.de/en/latest-ne...
New podcast interview with Prof. Sven Nyholm @svennyholm.bsky.social, about topics from his new book *The Ethics of Artificial Intelligence, A Philosophical Introduction* (Hackett). See below. #aiethics #podcast #philosophy
Out now: *KI und Demokratie* New book edited by LMU Faculty of Philosophy, Philosophy of Science and Religious Studies member, Dr. Korbinian Rüger, featuring, among other contributions, a chapter by LMU's Dr. Benjamin Lange. For more information, follow this link: link.springer.com/book/9783658...
LMU's Chair of Religious Studies and Director of the Center for Religion and Philosophy, Prof. Robert Yelle, reviews Gary Chartier's book *Christianity and the Nation State: A Study in Political Theology* in the Journal of Religion: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
Lev Vaidman (Tel Aviv University) receives a prestigious Humboldt Research Award.
A leading researcher in quantum foundations, he will visit LMU Munich for extended research stays, collaborating with Physics and Philosophy.
Nominated by Stephan Hartmann & Harald Weinfurter.
Now available online: Christian List's 2026 Aquinas Lecture at the University of Innsbruck, "The Will of the People Revisited". www.youtube.com/watch?app=de...
Check out Professor Hannes Leitgeb's recent Frege Award Lecture at the GAP.12 conference, "The Additivity of Epistemic Reasons", here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=HREL... #philosophy #epistemicreasons #epistemology
Don't miss the keynote by Eric-Jan Wagenmakers (University of Amsterdam) this Monday!
He will talk about “The Ockham Factor” in the context of the #CASResearchFocus “Bayesian Reasoning”.
@lmu-mcmp.bsky.social
www.cas.lmu.de/en/events/ev...
"Can Artificial Agents Have Free Will?" - LMU's Chair of Philosophy and Decision Theory, Prof. Christian List, recently gave a talk on this topic at the University of Hong Kong. Check it out here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vr5d... #aiethics #philosophy #freewill
LMU's Chair of Philosophy of Science, Prof. Stephan Hartmann ( @stephanhartmann.bsky.social ) recently gave a talk at Harvard University's Black Hole Initiative colloquium, on "The Open Systems View". Check it out here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0Na... #philosophy #philosophyofscience
LMU philosopher in Dublin: Dr. Vanesse Carr gave a talk about "Believing in Success Against the Odds" at Trinity College Dublin today. #philosophy
The latest issue of *Ethics* has just been published. It features a review I wrote of Timothy Aylsworth and Clinton Castro's excellent book *Kantian Ethics and the Attention Economy: Duty and Distraction*. Check it out, here: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10.... #philosophy #aiethics
Out now: New book from LMU Munich's Professor of the Ethics of AI, Sven Nyholm (@svennyholm.bsky.social): *The Ethics of Artificial Intelligence: A Philosophical Introduction*, published by Hackett. (See below.) #aiethics #philosophy #lmumunich
If you can get to Berkeley this Saturday join us for a workshop on grounding in the history of philosophy! I'll be talking about grounding in Neoplatonism.
events.berkeley.edu/CMES/event/3...
LMU Munich philosopher in California: Prof. Peter Adamson (@histphilosophy.bsky.social) will be speaking on the topic "The Anatomy of Avicenna's Philosophy" at Berkeley this evening (see below): #philosophy #avicenna
"Macht AI unser Leben besser – oder nur bequemer, Prof. Sven Nyholm?" - new podcast interview w/ LMU Prof. Sven Nyholm (in German) on the #digdeep podcast hosted by Frauke Kreuter & Christof Horn: digdeep.de/2026/03/12/m... #aiethics #podcast #philosophy
New podcast interview w/ LMU's professor of the ethics of AI, Sven Nyholm ( @svennyholm.bsky.social ), on the Ethical Machines podcast - covering some topics from his new book that's about to be published in ten days: www.ethicalmachinespodcast.com/season-3/how... #aiethics #podcast #philosophy
Summer School: History and Philosophy of the Wave Function
Speaker Announcement: We are delighted to welcome Ney Alyssa @alyssaney.bsky.social (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München).
Urbino International Summer School – XXIX Edition
15–19 June 2026.
Deadline: 29 March 2026
We are organizing a workshop on the history of postwar physics on April 9-10, 2026 at LMU Munich. @lmu-mcmp.bsky.social @lmuphilosophy.bsky.social
Line-up: A. Blum, F. Caldéron, J. Dougherty, J. Fraser, R. Gaudenzi, A. Koberinski, R. van Leeuwen, E. Margoni, V. Nespeca, S. Rivat, V. Zwierzyk-Teles
LMU Munich's Professor of Late Ancient and Arabic Philosophy, Peter Adamson (@histphilosophy.bsky.social), will give a number of talks in California in March & early April. More info here: www.historyofphilosophy.net/going-to-cal... #philosophy
I am excited that my new book - The Ethics of Artificial Intelligence: A Philosophical Introduction - is currently Amazon's number 1 best-seller in the category "ethics". The book is coming out on March 23, but pre-orders are already possible: #aiethics #philosophy
Interview with LMU Munich's Professor of the Ethics of AI, @svennyholm.bsky.social, about some ideas from his new book that's out next month: "The hidden cost of letting AI make your life easier. Philosopher Sven Nyholm on reclaiming achievement from the machines." bigthink.com/philosophy/t...
New interview with Professor of the Philosophy of Religion Sebastian Gäb in Süddeutsche Zeitung: www.sueddeutsche.de/projekte/art... #philosophy #religion
Applications open for the summer school on Reasoning & Agency in AI (Venice International University) organised by LMU Munich's chair of phil of mind Ophelia Deroy, together with Hermann Cappelen (HKU), Rachel Stern (HKU), Alex Grzankowski (KCL), & Barry Smith (IP): forms.office.com/Pages/Respon...
"Agentic Advances and Annoying Slop: What’s Next for Generative AI?", article by Karen Emslie, and for which I was one of the people interviewed:
cacm.acm.org/news/agentic... #aiethics
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.