A great Faculty Research Day last Friday: excellent talks, inspiring posters, and many conversations across different areas of philosophy. A good reminder of how much interesting work is happening around us. Thanks to everyone who contributed, and to the Siemens Stiftung for the warm hospitality.
LMU Munich Philosophy Faculty
Coming up next week (June 18): the "Ad Hoc AI Ethics Workshop", organized by Professor Sven Nyholm and LMU PhD student Johannes Reisinger. More info: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/... Registration here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... #aiethics #philosophy
LMU Munich Philosophy Faculty
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...
Eddy Keming Chen 's recent talk (“AI Meets Philosophy of Science”) in LMU's Philosophy and Physics Colloquium is now online. Enjoy! www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMyk...
Check out this video on the ethics of AI agents, featuring Dr. Benjamin Lange, who leads a junior research group as part of the LMU Munich Philosophy Faculty & the Munich Center for Machine Learning (@munichcenterml.bsky.social): youtu.be/L4iBxgQmF1w?... #aiethics #aiagents #philosophy
LMU philosopher Dr. Benjamin Lange is featured in the latest issue of Die Zeit. See below: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/... #aiethics
Congratulations to Tom Sterkenburg, recipient of the 2026 Herbert A. Simon Award. The award honors outstanding early-career researchers at the intersection of computing and philosophy. www.iacap.org/2026/06/06/2...
YouTube video by Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy
YouTube video by MCML_Munich Center for Machine Learning
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Adding another volume to the collection: Byzantine & Renaissance Philosophy. Shout out to @histphilosophy.bsky.social. If you haven’t yet checked out his History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps, you’re missing out! 😊
Today's new #HoPWaG episode looks at the delightfully cynical and quotable aphorisms of La Rochefoucauld: we explore the profound ethical theory underlying his "maxims" and writings of other French Moralists:
historyofphilosophy.net/french-moral...
#philosophy #podcast #earlymodern #philsky
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...
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 ...
Fortune reports that "AI shopping agents are coming. No one is ready for them". fortune.com/2026/06/12/a... Silvia Milano and I wrote about this scenario in Nature Machine Intelligence in 2024, arguing that this was a bad idea. Check out our discussion here: www.nature.com/articles/s42... #aiethics
Nature Machine Intelligence - Advanced AI assistants that act on our behalf may not be ethically or legally feasible
First (?) review of *Contemporary Debates in the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence* (edited by me, Atoosa Kasirzadeh & John Zerilli), by Brendan Shea, out now, in *Philosophy in Review*, available here: journals.uvic.ca/index.php/pi...
#aiethics #philosophy
Coming up next week (June 18): the "Ad Hoc AI Ethics Workshop", organized by me and my PhD student Johannes Reisinger. More info: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/... Registration here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... #aiethics #philosophy
Sven Nyholm
Sven Nyholm
Date: June 18th, 2026 (09:30 until 17:30)
Location: LMU München, Geschwister-Scholl-Platz 1, ZEPP (M210) (room finder: https://www.lmu.de/raumfinder/#/building/bw0601)
Please register by 10 June 2026...
