Gregor Betz is professor of philosophy of science at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. He’s been studying the limits of scientific prediction, esp. in economics and climate science, the role of values in science, requirements of democratic scientific policy advice, and the ethics of climate engineering. He has developed a formal theory and computational models of argumentative debate, and applied these methods to clarify key concepts in epistemology, to interpret classical texts, to assess consensus- and truth-conduciveness of debate, as well as to to improve critical thinking teaching.
Most recently, Gregor has been engaged in computational philosophy projects involving so-called neural language models (such as, e.g., GPT-2).
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M.A. Philosophy, Political Sciences, Mathematics, 2002
Freie Universität Berlin
Dr. phil (Ph.D.) Philosophy, 2004
Freie Universität Berlin
Dr. habil. (Habilitation) Philosophy, 2008
Freie Universität Berlin
Descartes' »Meditationen über die Grundlagen der Philosophie«. Ein systematischer Kommentar. Stuttgart: Reclam 2011. [Amazon]
Debate Dynamics: How Controversy Improves Our Beliefs. Synthese Library. Dordrecht: Springer 2012. [SpringerLink] [Illustrative movie]
“Are climate models credible worlds? Prospects and limitations of possibilistic climate prediction”, European Journal for Philosophy of Science 5, 2015, S. 191-215. [link]
“Truth in evidence and truth in arguments without logical omniscience”, British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 67, 2016, 1117–1137. [link]
“Why the argument from inductive risk doesn’t justify incorporating non-epistemic values in scientific reasoning”, in: Kevin C. Elliott und Daniel Steel (Hrsg.), Contemporary Controversies in Science and Values, London: Routledge 2017.
Argumentationsanalyse. Stuttgart: Metzler 2020. [Amazon] [Website]
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