Sven Nyholm

My wife, Katharina Uhde, just received author copies of her great new book, *The Art of Musical Ciphers, Riddles and Sundry Curiosities* - highly recommended! Co-author: Larry Todd. More info here: www.amazon.com/Musical-Ciph... #musicology #ciphers #book Katharina: www.linkedin.com/in/katharina...

LMU Munich's Professor of Late Ancient and Arabic Philosophy, Peter Adamson (@histphilosophy.bsky.social), will give a number of talks in California in March & early April. More info here: www.historyofphilosophy.net/going-to-cal... #philosophy

Now it can only be a matter of days before my book sees the light of day and hopefully finds some human readers!
www.degruyterbrill.com/document/isb...
I would be delighted if some of you would suggest their libraries to include it in their collections.

Thanks Joanna! (You are, of course, prominently featured in this one, too.)

I am excited that my new book - The Ethics of Artificial Intelligence: A Philosophical Introduction - is currently Amazon's number 1 best-seller in the category "ethics". The book is coming out on March 23, but pre-orders are already possible: #aiethics #philosophy

The hidden cost of letting AI make your life easier Effort is meaning: Philosopher Sven Nyholm on reclaiming achievement from the machines.

"The hidden cost of letting AI make your life easier.
Philosopher Sven Nyholm on reclaiming achievement from the machines." - Many thanks to Shai Tubaly for this great article in Big Think based on an interview w/ me about some ideas from my new book appearing in March: bigthink.com/philosophy/t...

Applications open for the summer school on Reasoning & Agency in AI (Venice International University) organised by LMU Munich's chair of phil of mind Ophelia Deroy, together with Hermann Cappelen (HKU), Rachel Stern (HKU), Alex Grzankowski (KCL), & Barry Smith (IP): forms.office.com/Pages/Respon...

"Agentic Advances and Annoying Slop: What’s Next for Generative AI?", article by Karen Emslie, and for which I was one of the people interviewed:
cacm.acm.org/news/agentic... #aiethics

ERC PhD studentship: The Ethics and Philosophy of Science of Machine Learning | Scholarships and Student Funding | Student Administration This is a four-year ERC funded PhD studentship (starting in September 2026).

The PhD will research how concepts in ethics and political philosophy might give us new perspectives in philosophy of science about concepts of idealization, representation and model use.

Find out more & apply 👇
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@shannonvallor.bsky.social @edfuturesinstitute.bsky.social

ERC PhD studentship: The Ethics and Philosophy of Science of Machine Learning | Scholarships and Student Funding | Student Administration This is a four-year ERC funded PhD studentship (starting in September 2026).

Good news - we have a new ERC-funded 4-year PhD Studentship at the University of Edinburgh, based in Philosophy and our Centre @technomoralfutures.bsky.social, supervised by Dr Emily Sullivan; the project applies philosophy of science to assessing ML's epistemic & social value. Apply by 16 March!

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The LMU Munich chair of metaphysics is advertising a PhD position. For details, see below: #phdopportunity #philosophy #metaphysics

We are advertising a PhD position (2026-2027) in our chair. Please see details below.

In Deutsch: job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/f...
In English: job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/e...

Author copies extravaganza: today I received copies of two new books I have co-edited: *Contemporary Debates in the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence* (w/ Atoosa Kasirzadeh & John Zerilli) and *Social Robots and Cultural Sustainability* (w/ Raul Hakli, Marco Nørskov, & Sladjana Nørskov). #aiethics

In a new blog post, LMU Professor Peter Adamson (Chair of Late Ancient and Arabic Philosophy) suggests "Ten Rules for Writing about the History of Philosophy". Check out Prof Adamson's recommendations here: www.historyofphilosophy.net/rules-writin...
#philosophy #writing #history

In the philosophy lab Hannes Leitgeb is an LMU philosopher and winner of the Leibniz Prize. He investigates truth and rationality and under which conditions artificial intelligence arrives at reasonable decisions.

"In the philosophy lab" - new interview with Professor Hannes Leitgeb (Chair of Logic and Philosophy of Language), here: www.lmu.de/en/newsroom/... #philosophy #mathematics #mathematicalphilosophy

There is a new book on Social Robots and Cultural Sustainability, excellently edited by @raulhakli.bsky.social @svennyholm.bsky.social Marco Nørskov & Sladjana Nørskov! My chapter focuses on the importance of #relationships for #robots in #religious contexts doi.org/10.1007/978-... #ethics #culture

Thanks Victor!

Rules for writing about the history of philosophy #7: MIND THE GAPS.

On the importance of transitions.

www.historyofphilosophy.net/rules-writin...

Coming soon: my new book *The Ethics of Artificial Intelligence: A Philosophical Introduction*. More info - including three very generous blurbs from @davidgunkel.bsky.social, @briandavidearp.bsky.social, & Crystal L'Hote, PhD - here: hackettpublishing.com/new-forthcom...
#aiethics #philosophy

Out now: *Social Robots and Cultural Sustainability*, edited by Raul Hakli, me, Marco Nørskov, & Sladjana Nørskov. My chapter is called "Social Robots: Culturally Sustainable or Socially Disruptive? The Case of Humanoid Robots": link.springer.com/book/10.1007... #aiethics #philosophy #socialrobots

Social Robots and Cultural Sustainability This book is about social robots and their disruptive potential with respect to social environments and cultural institutions

The book "Social Robots and Cultural Sustainability" @Palgrave edited by @raulhakli.bsky.social, @svennyholm.bsky.social, Marco Nørskov and Sladjana Nørskov is now out and available. I contributed a chapter titled: "Flip the Script: From Ontology to an Ethics of Otherness." doi.org/10.1007/978-...

Artificial Joint Intentionality: Skilled Social Interactions in the Age of AI (Topical Collection by Synthese)

Look at this CFP for a Topical Collection of Synthese: link.springer.com/journal/1122...
Deadline: July,31, 2026

First of a series of "rules" giving advice on academic writing about history of philosophy. I'll be posting this as a series over the coming days. Hope people will find this useful and interesting! Feedback more than welcome.

www.historyofphilosophy.net/rules-writin...

#philsky #philosophy

Out now: the e-book version of *Contemporary Debates in the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence*, co-edited by me, Atoosa Kasirzadeh @atoosakz.bsky.social & John Zerilli. Print version out on Jan 21: www.amazon.com/Contemporary... #aiethics #philosophy

The Ethics of AI w/ SVEN NYHOLM, Author & Lead Researcher, Munich Centre for Machine Learning — The Creative Process Conversation with SVEN NYHOLM, Prof. of Ethics of AI, LMU Munich · Lead Investigator, AI Ethics, Munich Center for Machine Learning · Author of Humans and Robots · The Ethics of Artificial Intelligen...

"The AI Wager: Betting on Technology’s Future w/ Philosopher & Author Sven Nyholm". Interview on the Creative Process Podcast, available, in two versions: one shorter "highlights" version, and one longer version:
www.creativeprocess.info/interviews25... #aiethics #podcast #philosophy

Out soon: *Contemporary Debates in the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence*, co-edited by me, @atoosakz.bsky.social & John Zerilli. Out on Jan 21, but preview already available on Google books: books.google.de/books?id=beK... #aiethics

Great talk by Carissa Veliz (see below):

Fantastic talk Carissa! 👏

Thanks for having me!