{"id":1171,"date":"2026-10-19T10:14:47","date_gmt":"2026-10-19T10:14:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/udnn.tu-dortmund.de\/?page_id=1171"},"modified":"2026-10-20T17:46:44","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T17:46:44","slug":"lecture-series","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/udnn.tu-dortmund.de\/index.php\/activities\/lecture-series\/","title":{"rendered":"Lecture Series: Philosophy of AI in Science and Beyond"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/udnn.tu-dortmund.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/bckgrnd-1024x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-163\" srcset=\"https:\/\/udnn.tu-dortmund.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/bckgrnd-1024x300.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/udnn.tu-dortmund.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/bckgrnd-300x88.jpg 300w, https:\/\/udnn.tu-dortmund.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/bckgrnd-768x225.jpg 768w, https:\/\/udnn.tu-dortmund.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/bckgrnd-1536x450.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/udnn.tu-dortmund.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/bckgrnd.jpg 1568w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Lecture Series: Philosophy of AI in Science and Beyond<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/udnn.tu-dortmund.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/2nd-Lecture-Series.png\">Poster<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/udnn.tu-dortmund.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/2nd-Lecture-Series.png\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/udnn.tu-dortmund.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/2nd-Lecture-Series.png\" alt=\"2nd Lecture Series\" style=\"max-width: 30%; height: auto;\">\n<\/a>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Description<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">AI is currently transforming science and society. This lecture series investigates its philosophical underpinnings, bringing together philosopher of science and cognition to reflect on the status of AI as a new cognitive agent and on its role in science and beyond. Topics range from transparency and representation to questions of artificial cognition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Time and Place<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Wednesdays, 2:00pm &#8211; 4:00pm, Emil-Figge-Str. 50, room 0.442, 44227 Dortmund<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Speakers<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<details class=\"wp-block-details is-layout-flow wp-block-details-is-layout-flow\"><summary>28.10.26 Giovanni Galli (University of Innsbruck and University of Urbino) &amp; Annika Schuster (TU Dortmund University)\u201cCan AI generate scientific representations of proteins?\u201d<\/summary>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">tba<\/p>\n<\/details>\n\n\n\n<details class=\"wp-block-details is-layout-flow wp-block-details-is-layout-flow\"><summary>25.11.26 Carina Prunkl (National Institute of for research in Digital Science and Technology (Inria), Paris &amp; Institute for Ethics in AI, University of Oxford)<br>\u201ctba\u201d<\/summary>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">tba<\/p>\n<\/details>\n\n\n\n<details class=\"wp-block-details is-layout-flow wp-block-details-is-layout-flow\"><summary>02.12.26 Ian Robertson (Centre for Philosophy and AI Research {PAIR}, FAU Erlangen-N\u00fcrnberg)<br>\u201cReversing the Philosophy of AI? Comparative Cognition and Detecting Artificial Cognition\u201d<\/summary>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A growing (but still marginal) group of researchers argue that certain current AI systems exhibit cognitive activity. Among them, some have argued that scepticism towards said claim is often not taken sufficiently seriously in virtue of the fact that the philosophy of AI is largely retrograde and overly reliant on methods drawn from the philosophy of mind. They advocate for an alternative methodological strategy, one on which we afford a greater significance to our capacity to detect mental states through interacting with cognitive agents. In this talk, I argue that this attempted methodological reversal is misguided. More specifically, I argue that it ignores important principles of comparative cognition studies. As such, it fails to offer a tenable alternative to more traditional philosophy of AI.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n\n\n\n<details class=\"wp-block-details is-layout-flow wp-block-details-is-layout-flow\"><summary>16.12.26 Emanuele Ratti (University of Bristol)<br>\u201cPredictions and Accomodations in Machine Learning\u201d<\/summary>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">tba<\/p>\n<\/details>\n\n\n\n<details class=\"wp-block-details is-layout-flow wp-block-details-is-layout-flow\"><summary>20.01.27 Claus Beisbart (University of Bern)<br>\u201cMaking Sense of Explainability: A Conceptual Engineering Perspective on XAI\u201d<\/summary>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">tba<\/p>\n<\/details>\n\n\n\n<details class=\"wp-block-details is-layout-flow wp-block-details-is-layout-flow\"><summary>03.02.27 Hadeel Naeem (Centre for Philosophy and AI Research {PAIR}, FAU Erlangen-N\u00fcrnberg)<br>\u201cAI and the Situated Epistemic Agent\u201d<\/summary>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">tba<\/p>\n<\/details>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Main Organizers<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Annika Schuster, Frauke Stoll, Riccardo Fracchioni and Florian J. 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