Dr. Donal Khosrowi Djen-Gheschlaghi
30159 Hannover
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Profil
Donal Khosrowi ist seit Oktober 2019 wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter (Postdoc) am Lehrstuhl für theoretische Philosophie (Prof. Frisch). Seine aktuelle Forschung konzentriert sich auf:
1) Künstliche Intelligenz (KI) und die erkenntnistheoretischen und ethischen Fragen die KI-Systeme aufwerfen, beispielsweise beim Erzeugen von Bildern und Texten mithilfe generativer KI wie StableDiffusion oder ChatGPT, oder im Kontext wissenschaftlicher Entdeckungen, wie z.B. beim Identifizieren von Proteinstrukturen mithilfe von Systemen wie AlphaFold 2.0.
2) Wissenschaftliche Modelle, Simulationen und Experimente und die Frage welche Eigenschaften diese Werkzeuge jeweils nützlich machen, voneinander unterscheiden, und welche Synergien es zwischen ihnen geben kann.
3) Wissenschaftstheorie der Sozialwissenschaften; insbesondere mit Bezug auf die Frage welche Rolle moralische Werte in der Formulierung wissenschaftlicher Methodologien spielen dürfen und sollten.
4) Wissenschaftstheorie der Ökonomik; insbesondere mit Bezug auf kausale Inferenz mithilfe experimenteller und quasi-experimenteller Methoden und die Frage wie kausale Schlussfolgerungen durch die Integration verschiedener Arten von Evidenz (z.B. qualitativer und quantitativer) erlangt werden können.
Schwerpunkte in Forschung und Lehre
- Philosophie und Ethik digitaler Technologien (insb. künstliche Intelligenz)
- Epistemologie und Methodologie des maschinellen Lernens in den Wissenschaften
- Kausale Inferenz in den Sozialwissenschaften
- Die Rolle von Werten in den Wissenschaften
- Wissenschaftliche Repräsentation mithilfe von Modellen und Simulationen
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Publikationen
forthcoming with Finola Finn: "Can Generative AI Produce Novel Evidence?". Accepted at PSA 2024: Proceedings of the 2024 Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association. Contributed papers. Philosophy of Science. forthcoming with Philippe van Basshuysen: "Making a Murderer – How risk assessment tools may produce rather than predict criminal behavior". American Philosophical Quarterly, SI on Ethics of Artificial Intelligence. 2024 with Finola Finn and Elinor Clark: "Engaging the Many-Hands Problem of Generative-AI Outputs: A Framework for Attributing Credit". AI and Ethics, special issue on Ethics of Generative AI. https://doi.org/10.1007/s43681-024-00440-7 2023 with Finola Finn and Elinor Clark: "Diffusing the Creator: Attributing Credit for Generative AI Outputs", AIES '23: Proceedings of the 2023 AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society. ACM, New York, NY, USA
2023 "Extrapolating from Experiments, Confidently", European Journal for Philosophy of Science, 13:18.
2023 "Managing Performative Models", Philosophy of the Social Sciences
2022 With Elinor Clark: "Decentring the discoverer: how AI helps us rethink scientific discovery". Synthese 200, 463.
2022 "Evidence-Based Policy" In Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Economics, edited by Julian Reiss and Conrad Heilmann, Routledge. 2021 "What's (successful) Extrapolation?", Journal of Economic Methodology.
2021 With Philippe van Basshuysen, Lucie White, und Mathias Frisch: "Three Ways in Which Pandemic Models May Perform a Pandemic", Erasmus Journal of Philosophy and Economics, 14(1), 110–127.
2021 "When Experiments need Models", Philosophy of the Social Sciences, 51(4):400-424.
2020 With Julian Reiss (Linz). “Evidence-Based Policy: The Tension between the Epistemic and the Normative”, Critical Review, 31(2):179-197.
2020 “Getting Serious about Shared Features” The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 71(2):523–546.
2019
“Trade-offs Between Epistemic and Moral Values in Evidence-Based Policy”, Economics & Philosophy, 35(1):49-78.
2019
“Extrapolation in Econometrics – Hopes, Assumptions, and the Extrapolator’s Circle”, The Journal of Economic Methodology, 28(1):45-58.
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Vorträge
2024 (invited) “Conceptual Disruptions and the Proper Roles for ML in Scientific Discovery”, Aarhus University. 4 December 2024. 2024 “Can Generative AI Produce Novel Evidence?” (w/Finola Finn, LUH), PSA2024 Philosophy of Science Association Conference, New Orleans. 14-17 November.
2024 “Can Generative AI Produce Novel Evidence?” (w/Finola Finn, LUH), DKPhil2024 XXVI. Deutscher Kongress für Philosophie, Universität Münster, 22-26 September.
2024 “Conceptual Disruptions and the Proper Roles for ML in Scientific Discovery”, PhilML2024, Tübingen University. 11-13 September.
2024 (invited) “New topics in the philosophy of evidence in social science”, Complutense University of Madrid. 24 May.
2024 (invited) “Conceptual disruptions of AI in science”, University of Groningen. 28 February.
2024 "High-risk, because they say so – How risk assessment tools may produce rather than predict criminal behavior", Prediction and Punishment: Cross Disciplinary Workshop on Carceral AI. University of Pittsburgh. 9 February.
2024 “Can generative AI produce synthetic evidence?”, GRK-SOCRATES Colloquium, Leibniz University Hannover. 18 January.
2023 "Closing the Attribution Gap: A Framework for Attributing Credit for Generative AI Outputs", PCFS Seminar Series, Lingnan University, Hong Kong (online). 2023 “Making a Murderer – How algorithmic risk assessment tools may produce rather than predict criminal behavior” (w/ Philippe van Basshuysen), EPSA 2023, Belgrade, 20-23 September. 2023 "Diffusing the Creator: Attributing Credit for Generative AI Outputs" (w/ Finola Finn and Elinor Clark), AIES' 23, Montreal, QC, 8-10 August (poster talk). 2023 "Can generative AI produce historical evidence?" (w/ Finola Finn), Machine Discovery and Creation Virtual Workshop, 3-4 August. 2023 "Diffusing the Creator: Attributing Credit for Generative AI Outputs" (w/ Finola Finn and Elinor Clark), Machine Discovery and Creation Virtual Workshop, 3-4 August. 2023 "Can generative AI produce historical evidence?" (w/ Finola Finn), LICPOS 2023, Lisbon, 12-15 July. 2023 "Can generative AI produce historical evidence?" (w/ Finola Finn), MCMP-LUH-Wuppertal Workshop, Munich, 6-7 July. 2023 "Diffusing the Creator: Attributing Credit for Generative AI Outputs" (w/ Finola Finn and Elinor Clark), IACAP 2023, Prague, 3-5 July. 2023 (invited) “Producing and Using Evidence for Policy, Responsibly”, Epistemic standards of due care in EBP workshop, ZiF, Bielefeld University, 28-29 June. 2023 “Extrapolating from Experiments, Confidently”, INEM 2023, Venice, 24-26 May. 2023 "Decentring the Discoverer and Creator", Minnesota Center for Philosophy of Science (MCPS) International Postdoc Forum (online), 8 February. 2022 "External Validity as an Achievement", PSA 2022, Pittsburgh, 10-13 November.
2022 "Generalization in Machine Learning: A Plea for Better Theory", PhilML2022: Philosophy of Science Meets Machine Learning, Tübingen, 20-22 October. 2022 "Managing Performative Models", ENPOSS 2022, Málaga, 21-23 September. 2022 “Extrapolation - Where is Our Theory of Confidence?”, GWP2022, Berlin, 16 September. 2022 "Managing Performative Models", SPSP 2022, Ghent, 3 July. 2022 "Managing Performative Models", 12th Braga Meetings on Ethics and Political Philosophy (in person), Braga, 27 June. 2022 "Managing Performative Models", ISEC Colloquium Universität Witten/Herdecke (invited), 8 February. 2022 "No (Value-)Free Lunch: How Moral Values Matter for Methodology", American Economic Association / ASSA 2022 (hybrid conference), 7 January. 2021 "Managing Performative Models", INEM 2021 (hybrid), November 12. 2021 "Towards Democratic Evidence" (poster talk) PPE conference 2021 "Democracy Between Order and Chaos", Witten/Herdecke University, 17-19 September. 2021 “Extrapolation - Where is Our Theory of Confidence?”, EPSA 2021 (hybrid conference), Turin, 15-18 September. 2021 “Extrapolation - Where is Our Theory of Confidence?”, BSPS 2021 (online conference) 6-9 July. 2020 “Experiments need Models”, ENPOSS 2020 (virtual conference), Toulouse, 14-18 September. 2020 “Ampliative Evidence Integration - The Case of Evidence-Based Policy”, Evidential Pluralism and the Social Sciences (virtual conference), Kent, 16-17 July. 2020 “When Mechanisms Sleep”, Philosophy of Social Science Roundtable, Emory University, Atlanta, 12-15 March. 2019 “When Mechanisms Sleep”, Departmental Research Seminar, Leibniz Universität Hannover, 17 December. 2019 “When Mechanisms Sleep”, Irish Philosophical Society Annual Conference, University College Cork, 6-7 December. 2019 “What’s (successful) extrapolation?”, Symposium on “Methodology of extrapolation and external validity: theoretical and practical appraisals in economics” w/ Judith Favereau, Maria Jiminez-Buedo, Michiru Nagatsu, Luis Moreles-Flores, Federica Russo, Sofia Blanco Sequeiros, INEM 2019, Helsinki, Finland, 19-21 August. 2019 “What’s (successful) extrapolation?”, BSPS2019, Durham University, July 17-19. 2019 “Idle Causes, Idle Inferences”, Economic Behaviours: Models, Measurements, and Policies, Lake Como School of Advanced Studies, June 30- July 5. 2018 “Evidence-Based Policy and Its Hidden Costs of Justice” (w/Julian Reiss, Durham) PSA2018, Biennal Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association, Seattle, Washington, 1-4 November. 2018 Symposium: “External Validity: What is it and how do we get it?” with Maria Jiminez-Buedo (UNED), Michiru Nagatsu (TINT), and Federica Russo (UVA), SPSP 2018, Ghent, Belgium, 29 June – 2 July. 2018 “Getting Serious about Shared Features”, Models and Simulations 8, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, USA, 15-17 March. 2017 “A Challenge for Value-Freedom and –Neutrality in Evidence-Based Policy”, DGPhil 2017 XXIV. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Philosophie, Berlin, Germany, 24-27 September. 2017 “Getting Serious about Shared Features”, EPSA17, Exeter, UK, 6-9 September. 2017 "Putting Rigor Back into Pragmatic trials" (w/Sarah Wieten, Stanford), EPSA17, Exeter, UK, 6-9 September. 2017 “Extrapolation of Causal Effects – Hopes, Assumptions and the Extrapolator’s Circle”, INEM 2017, San Sebastián, Spain, 28-30 August. 2017 “Value-Freedom and –Neutrality in Evidence-Based Policy”, YSI Young Scholars Initiative Workshop, San Sebastián, Spain, 27 August. 2017 "Putting Rigor back into Pragmatic Trials" (w/Sarah Wieten, Stanford), NNPS Fifth Annual Meeting of the Nordic Network for Philosophy of Science, Copenhagen, Denmark, 20-21 April. 2016 “Trade-offs Between Epistemic and Moral Values in Evidence-Based Policy”, PSA2016, Biennal Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association, Atlanta, Georgia, 3-5 November.
2016 “Trade-offs Between Epistemic and Moral Values in Evidence-Based Policy”, 5th René Descartes Lectures 2016, Workshop: “Science, Values and Democracy”, Tilburg, The Netherlands, 5-7 September. 2016 “Getting Serious about Shared Features”, BSPS British Society for Philosophy of Science Annual Conference, Cardiff, UK, 6-9 June. 2016 “Scientific and Moral Value Entanglement as a Challenge to Evidence-Based Policy”, Values in Medicine Science and Technology 6, UT Dallas, Dallas, Texas, 19-23 May. -
Lehrveranstaltungen
WiSe 2024/25 - Ethics of Technology
- Introduction to Philosophy Bootcamp (w/ Tanja Rechnitzer)
SoSe 2024 - AI in Science and Society
- Introduction to Philosophy Bootcamp (w/ Tanja Rechnitzer)
WiSe 2023/24 - Contemporary Issues in Epistemology
- Introduction to Philosophy Bootcamp (w/ Tanja Rechnitzer)
SoSe 2023 - Creating and Discovering with AI
WiSe 2022/23 - Philosophy and Public Policy
- Ethics and Philosophy of Digital Technologies
SoSe 2022 - Einführung in die Erkenntnistheorie
- Advanced Topics in the Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence
- Contemporary Issues in Philosophy of Science (w/ Tanja Rechnitzer)
WiSe 2021/22 - Project Seminar (MA level skill building course)
- Project Week (MA level skill building course)
- Evidence-Based Policy and Practice
SoSe 2021 - Models, Simulations, and Experiments
- Advanced Topics in the Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence
WiSe 2020/21 - Project Seminar (MA level skill building course)
- Project Week (MA level skill building course)
SoSe 2020 - Causation
- Philosophy of Economics
WiSe 2019/20 - Philosophie der künstlichen Intelligenz (Philosophy of AI)
- Introduction to Philosophy of Science
WiSe 2017/18 - Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy (Single lecture, Durham University)
- Values in Science (University of Bayreuth, w/Erin Nash)
SoSe 2017 - Philosophy of Economics (University of Bayreuth)
WiSe 2016/17 - Does Capitalism Promote or Prevent Democracy? (Single lecture, Durham University)
- Evidence-Based Policy (University of Bayreuth, w/Tobias Grohmann, Groningen)
SoSe 2016 - Evidence-Based Policy (University of Bayreuth, w/Tobias Grohmann, Groningen)
WiSe 2015/16 - Foundational Issues in Philosophy of Economics (University of Bayreuth)
SoSe 2015 - Foundational Issues in Philosophy of Economics (University of Bayreuth)
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Stipendien und Preise
2021 PPE Young Scholars Award for Social and Institutional Change (Institute for Social and Institutional Change [ISIC], Witten/Herdecke University) 2018-19 Royal Institute of Philosophy Jacobsen Studentship 2015-18 Durham Doctoral Scholarship 2015-18 AHRC Northern Bridge Studentship