ABOUT
Mario Günther is an Assistant Professor at the Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy of LMU Munich and a Visiting Assistant Professor at Carnegie Mellon University. Previously, he was a postdoctoral Research Fellow working on the Humanising Machine Intelligence project at The Australian National University and a visitor to the London School of Economics and Political Science. He received the 2022 Wolfgang Stegmüller Award from the German Society for Analytic Philosophy for "outstanding contributions".
His research centers on applying logical and mathematical tools to philosophical problems in Epistemology, Metaphysics, and the Philosophies of Science, Language, Law, and Artificial Intelligence. Some of his papers have appeared in The Journal of Philosophy, the Journal of Philosophical Logic, Philosophical Studies, The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, and Minds and Machines. He was a Researcher in Residence at the Center for Advanced Studies of LMU Munich (2023-24). Currently, he is the principal investigator of the project Rational Belief and Guilt.
Writings (Click for Preprints)
Legal Proof Should Be Justified Belief of Guilt
Legal Theory
A Lewisian Regularity Theory (with Holger Andreas)
A Regularity Theory of Causation (with Holger Andreas)
Pacific Philosophical Quarterly
Actual Causation (with Holger Andreas)
dialectica
Epistemic Sensitivity and Evidence
Artificial Intelligence and Law
Bayesians Still Don't Learn from Conditionals (with Borut Trpin)
Causal and Evidential Conditionals
Ramsey's Conditionals (with Caterina Sisti)
Algorithmic and Human Decision Making: For a Double Standard of Transparency (with Atoosa Kasirzadeh)
Difference-Making Causation (with Holger Andreas)
A Ramsey Test Analysis of Causation for Causal Models (with Holger Andreas)
British Journal for the Philosophy of Science
Causation in Terms of Production (with Holger Andreas)
On the Ramsey Test Analysis of 'Because' (with Holger Andreas)
Learning Conditional Information by Jeffrey Imaging on Stalnaker Conditionals
Journal of Philosophical Logic
Winner of the 2022 Wolfgang Stegmüller Award
Learning Conditional and Causal Information by Jeffrey Imaging on Stalnaker Conditionals
Encyclopedia Entries
Regularity and Inferential Theories of Causation (with Holger Andreas)
The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Conference Proceedings
Defining Selection Functions (with Holger Andreas)
Disjunctive Antecedents for Causal Models
Proceedings of the 21st Amsterdam Colloquium
Drafts
Journal Articles
Dissertation
Abstract, Précis, Acknowledgments, and Table of Contents (Please contact me for the full text.)
Outreach
Kann Europas KI Gesetz eine lebenswerte Zukunft bewahren? (with William D’Alessandro)
Large-scale facial recognition is incompatible with a free society (with Seth Lazar and Claire Benn)
The Conversation
Was wird die Künstliche Intelligenz für Versicherungsunternehmen bedeuten?
What's Hot in Mathematical Philosophy?
Logical Symbolicism vs. Dynamicist Connectionism: Is there a Difference in Computational Power?