Let me begin by thanking Moti Mizrahi for his thoughtful and supportive review of my (2026) book, which I very much appreciate. Mizrahi’s review of the book and the points he brings up are very…

While I am among those who believe that texts or parts of texts generated by large language models (LLMs) are best considered as authorless texts, 1 in this commentary I engage with the idea that LLMs...

Podcast by Peter Adamson, Professor of Philosophy at LMU Munich and KCL London. Includes western, Islamic, Indian, and Africana philsosophy.

The Open Systems View Quantum theory is commonly understood as a theory of closed, isolated systems, with open systems treated as merely effective descriptions obtained by embedding them into larger …

The article argues for a system of axioms that is meant to capture the logic of normative reasons for belief. The system concerns a primitive direct-reason relation, a defined doxastic-reason relatio...

Sven Nyholm’s The Ethics of Artificial Intelligence: A Philosophical Introduction (Hackett Publishing 2026) is a clear, well-written, accessible, and fairly comprehensive philosophical introduction to...

Since moving to LMU last fall, Sebastian Bender has been exploring one of the most transformative periods in the history of ideas: the intellectual groundshifts of the early modern era.

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Michael Titelbaum introduced a variant of the Sleeping Beauty problem in which a coin is tossed on both Monday and Tuesday, with the Tuesday toss not affecting Beauty's condition. Titelbaum argues th....

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Organization: Sebastian Bender, Andrew Stephenson

Workshop hosted by the LMU Center for Religion and Philosophy I Prof. Dr. Robert A. Yelle, Director

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I spoke to Yves Bellinghausen from DIE ZEIT, who set up an AI agent to try how well it could do journalistic work for him. To be honest, the first time the agent called me, I thought it was some weir...

Nature Machine Intelligence - Advanced AI assistants that act on our behalf may not be ethically or legally feasible

Coming up next week (on June 18) at LMU Faculty of Philosophy, Philosophy of Science and Religious Studies: the Ad-Hoc AI Ethics Workshop, organized by Johannes Reisinger and me. Speakers and presenta...

Based on work from the International Association for Computing and Philosophy’s (IACAP) Awards Committee, the executive board of IACAP has selected Tom F. S ...

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Faculty Day at the LMU Faculty of Philosophy, Philosophy of Science and Religious Studies — my poster is up. The paper (in progress): AI Companions and Infidelity Even granting that an AI affair and...

My essay "Keeping Your Distance" has been shortlisted for the inaugural Aeon Philosophy Prize as one of five finalists selected from several hundred submissions. The essay argues that a history of be...

Andrew Stephenson has joined the faculty at LMU. The philosopher researches Kant and how humans obtain knowledge of the world.