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.
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...
Congratulations to my MCMP colleague 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...
New paper in Philosophical Studies (with @stephanhartmann.bsky.social):
We answer recent critiques of probabilistic measures with a coherence-based approach: explanatory power = how well the explanatory package coheres with the explanandum vs its negation.
doi.org/10.1007/s110...
And thanks to David Colaco for taking the picture.
Great news from the MCMP: Tom Sterkenburg has received the Karl-Heinz Hoffmann Award from the Bavarian Academy of Sciences.
A terrific and well-deserved recognition of his work on induction, statistics, and machine learning! badw.de/en/die-akade...
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.
Why Coherence Matters (with @stephanhartmann.bsky.social) is now online first in The Journal of Philosophy.
We argue that coherence matters because, when more direct evidence is unavailable, the way information hangs together can be a good guide to truth.
doi.org/10.5840/jphi...
Lev Vaidman (Tel Aviv University) has been awarded a Humboldt Research Award by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.
A leading figure in quantum foundations, he will spend extended periods at LMU Munich, collaborating across physics and philosophy.
Nominated jointly with Harald Weinfurter.