Excited that our project “Procedural Anchors: How Communication Order Shapes Disinformation” has been funded by the DFG in the Priority Programme Re:DIS. With Lilian von Bressensdorf we’ll study how communication order shapes belief formation—and how better deliberation can counter disinformation.

"Why Coherence Matters" Volume 123, Issue 1, January 2026 Stephan Hartmann and Borut Trpin Pages 35-62 doi.org/10.5840/jphi... #philosophy #philsky

Why Coherence Matters - Volume 123, Issue 1, January 2026

Explicating the concept of coherence and establishing a measure for assessing the coherence of an information set are two of the most important tasks of coherentist epistemology. To this end, several ...

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Congratulations to my LMU Munich colleague Alyssa Ney on her ERC Advanced Grant for MetaQ: The Nature of Reality According to Quantum Physics. A wonderful and well-deserved achievement. Looking forward to seeing the results of this exciting project! #ERC #LMU #QuantumPhysics

How do we establish reliable medical knowledge in the age of AI, big data, and evidence-based medicine? Looking forward to The Epistemology of Medicine workshop (25–26 June, Munich), bringing together philosophers, statisticians, and medical researchers for two days of interdisciplinary discussion.

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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...

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...

Philosophy and Physics Colloquium: Eddy Chen - AI meets Philosophy of Science

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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.

Next week, Eddy Chen (UCSD) will give a talk in the interdisciplinary Philosophy & Physics Colloquium at LMU Munich: AI Meets Philosophy of Science Thu, 21 May 2026, 6pm (s.t.) Room F107, LMU Main Building All welcome! Reception afterwards. www.philosophie.lmu.de/de/aktuelles...

Prof. Eddy Chen: AI Meets Philosophy of Science

Im Rahmen des Philosophy and Physics Colloquium referiert Prof. Eddy Chen (UC San Diego) über KI und Wissenschaftstheorie.

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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...

Why Coherence Matters - published on April 28, 2026

Explicating the concept of coherence and establishing a measure for assessing the coherence of an information set are two of the most important tasks of coherentist epistemology. To this end, several principles have been proposed to guide the specification of a measure of coherence. We depart from this prevailing path by challenging two well-established and prima facie plausible principles: Agreement and Dependence. Instead, we propose a new probabilistic measure of coherence that combines basic intuitions of both principles, but without strictly satisfying either of them. It is then shown that the new measure outperforms alternative measures in terms of its truth-tracking properties. We consider this feature to be central and argue that coherence matters because it is likely to be our best available guide to truth, at least when more direct evidence is unavailable.

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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...

Coherence-based measures of explanatory power - Philosophical Studies

Philosophical Studies - Recent critiques have cast doubt on the viability of probabilistic measures of explanatory power. We respond by developing a coherence-based family of measures that...

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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.

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.

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...

Excited to share that our edited volume "Open Systems: Physics, Metaphysics, and Methodology" (with Michael Cuffaro) is coming out soon with OUP. Details here: global.oup.com/academic/pro...

I’m joining the 2nd Symposium on Physics and Metabolism in Brain Functions at the Paris Brain Institute on Nov 7 — looking forward to discussing how physics can illuminate brain metabolism and consciousness. 🔗 www.eventbrite.fr/e/2nd-sympos... #PhilosophyOfScience #Physics #Neuroscience

2nd SYMPOSIUM: CONNECTION BETWEEN PHYSICS AND METABOLISM IN BRAIN FUNCTIONS

Following the success of the 1st international symposium (Barcelona, July 2024),we are pleased to welcome you in Paris for this 2nd edition

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LMU Munich is looking to fill a W2 Professorship in Philosophy Education. The role involves research, teaching, and the design of a new study program in philosophy/ethics. Deadline: 15 Nov 2025. Apply here: job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/b...

LMU’s Alyssa Ney joins Roger Penrose & Jacob Barandes to debate one of the biggest mysteries in quantum theory: the collapse of the wave function. 🔗 iai.tv/video/the-co...

The collapse of the wave function

'The collapse of the wave function' is a phrase we see constantly in relation to quantum physics. Whilst many claim to understand what it means, its true character remains unknown. A century ago, Heis...

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Excited to share that the volume Lakatos @ 100 has just been published (open access)! It’s a great collection on Lakatos’s legacy. 📘 Book link: link.springer.com/book/10.1007... Grateful to the editors for including me! #Lakatos #PhilosophyOfScience #Bayes #OpenAccess

Proofs and Research Programmes: Lakatos at 100

This open access book offers new insights into issues raised in philosophy of mathematics and in philosophy of science by Imre Lakatos.

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Thrilled to announce that Sebastian Bender is joining LMU Munich as Professor of Early Modern Philosophy. His expertise in 17th-18th c. metaphysics & epistemology (Leibniz, Spinoza, Kant) will boost our History of Philosophy section. Welcome, Sebastian! sebastianbender.net

Sebastian Bender

I am an Assistant Professor (a tenure track "Juniorprofessor") at the Philosophy Department of University of Göttingen. Before coming to Göttingen, I held positions at Humboldt University in Berlin (w...

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Big congratulations to Alyssa Ney for winning the 2025 Patrick Suppes Prize in Philosophy of Science! 🎉 Her book The World in the Wave Function: A Metaphysics for Quantum Physics just earned the APA’s top award. #PhilosophyOfScience #QuantumPhysics #CongratsAlyssa www.amphilsoc.org/news/aps-awa...

APS Awards 2025 Patrick Suppes Prize in Philosophy of Science, largest book prize in Philosophy, to Dr. Alyssa Ney | American Philosophical Society

The American Philosophical Society has awarded the 2025 Patrick Suppes Prize in Philosophy to Dr. Alyssa Ney for her book The World in the Wave Function: A Metaphysics for Quantum Physics (Oxford Univ...

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Is a final theory of everything still the goal—or has science moved on? In this piece for IAI, I reflect on what effective field theories teach us about explanation, emergence, and realism. 🔗 iai.tv/articles/a-t... #PhilosophyOfScience #EFTs #Reductionism #Emergence #Realism #ScienceThreads

A theory of everything will never work at all scales

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It is an honour for us to welcome one of the world's leading cosmologists as #CASFellow: George Ellis (Cape Town) is joining CAS at the invitation of Andreas Burkert @origins-cluster ‪@lmumuenchen.bsky.social‬ and Stephan Hartmann @stephanhartmann.bsky.social‬ @lmu-mcmp.bsky.social‬.

Excited to announce our upcoming workshop: Reduction and Emergence in Physics and Cosmology at LMU Munich on May 16, 2025. We’ll explore how modern physics challenges traditional reductionist views, with insights from George Ellis and LMU scholars. Details here: www.cas.lmu.de/de/veranstal...

Reduction and Emergence in Physics and Cosmology

Workshop in the context of the CAS Research Focus

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Roman Frigg and I have revised our entry on Models in Science for the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. It is now online. plato.stanford.edu/entries/mode...

Great news from the QS World University Ranking. Just like last year LMU Munich is ranked 6th worldwide in philosophy. www.topuniversities.com/university-s...

QS World University Rankings for Philosophy 2025

Discover the world's top universities for Philosophy. Explore the QS World University Rankings by Subject 2025 in various disciplines.

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The concepts of computation and information are becoming increasingly important. A special issue of Entropy entitled “Information-Theoretic Concepts in Physics”, which I co-edited with Michael Cuffaro, provides an overview and might be of interest to some of you. www.mdpi.com/journal/entr...

Entropy

Entropy, an international, peer-reviewed Open Access journal.

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Call for papers: LMP 2025 Always a fun conference. If you're a grad student in philosophy of logic, math, or physics, please submit!! Please share widely. www.logicmathphysics.uwo.ca

Great news from my faculty: Andrew Stephenson has accepted the offer of a professorship in the history of 19th and 20th century philosophy at LMU Munich. This will consolidate our research strength in the philosophy of Kant (and related topics). www.acstephenson.com

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I am a Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Southampton. I am currently on leave with a Humboldt Research Fellowship at the University of Leipzig's Forschungskolleg for Analytic German Idealism...

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Just released: Interview with Professor Christian List on the Formal Philosophy Podcast on "The Many-Worlds Theory of Consciousness" (interviewers: Sylvester Kollin & Eric Chen) #philosophy #consciousness #consci open.spotify.com/episode/7z8X...

4. Christian List | The Many-Worlds Theory of Consciousness

The Formal Philosophy Podcast · Episode

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I am delighted to share the news that Hannes Leitgeb has been awarded the Leibniz Prize by the German Research Foundation. This is the most important and prestigious research prize in Germany and Hannes has more than earned it. www.lmu.de/en/newsroom/...

Big success for LMU at Leibniz awards

Hannes Leitgeb, Maria-Elena Torres-Padilla, and Bettina Valeska Lotsch have each been given a prestigious Leibniz Prize by the German Research Foundation – the top research award in Germany.

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