Reasoning in the Age of AI: Philosophical Perspectives

Abstract:

This workshop explores the conceptual foundations of reasoning and asks whether artificial systems can genuinely be said to reason. It deals with how human thinking, which is shaped by beliefs, intentionality and experience, differs from the more formal, rule-based processes of AI. By discussing of different perspectives from philosophy, cognitive science and AI research, we aim to better understanding of whether artificial reasoning could ever be considered real reasoning and what this might mean for our understanding.

Program:

09:30     Welcome (Gabriele Gramelsberger)

09:45     Markus Pantsar (RWTH Aachen): Towards an Epistemology of AI Reasoning

10:30     Jacqueline Bellon (University Tübingen): Reasoning by Accident and Intelligence beyond Belief: Is Statistical Reasoning Rational and are Humans?

11:15     Coffee Break

11:30     Jakob Ohlhorst (RWTH Aachen): Theory of Mind, (joint) Reasoning, and Large Language Models

12:15     Lunch

13:45     Pirmin Stekeler-Weithofer (University Leipzig): Higher level Reason in Dialectical and Speculative Reflections. On the limited “Rationality” of Automatable Thinking

14:30     Stefania Centrone (Technical University Munich): Deductive Reasoning in Leibniz, Boole, and Beyond

15:15     Coffee Break

15:30     Daniel Wenz (RWTH Aachen): What is the Reason behind Artificial Reasoning?

16:15     Final Discussion

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