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Chair of Theory and Ethics of Artificial Intelligence (Alexander von Humboldt Professorship)

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Ian Robertson’s primary research interests intersect epistemology and the philosophy of cognitive science. He is presently focussed on characterising how the way we learn from AI structurally parallels with the way we learn from human experts. In this way, Robertson interrogates AI integration from the vantage point of social epistemology.

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Recent Publications

  • Robertson, Ian (under contract). AI and Expertise. Cambridge University Press.
  • Robertson, Ian (2025). AI, Trust and Reliability. Philosophy & Technology 38 (3), 94. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13347-025-00924-2
  • Kirchhoff, Michael David; Julian Kiverstein; and Ian Robertson (2025). The Literalist Fallacy and the Free Energy Principle: Model Building, Scientific Realism, and Instrumentalism. The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 76 (3), 639-662.
  • Robertson, Ian (2025). A Problem for Autonomous Know-How. Erkenntnis 90 (4), 1683-1691. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10670-024-00849-w
  • Hutto, Daniel D.; and Ian Robertson (2024). What Comes Naturally? Relaxed Naturalism’s New Philosophy of Nature. In Naturalism and Its Challenges, edited by Gary N. Kemp, Ali Hossein Khani, Hossein Sheykh Rezaee and Hassan Amiriara, 19-35. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003430568
  • Robertson, Ian (2024). In defence of radically enactive imagination. Thought: A Journal of Philosophy. https://doi.org/10.5840/tht202421525