Timo Freiesleben

Hi, welcome to my personal website! I am a Junior Professor (Juniorprofessor) for Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence at the Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg, where I am part of the Department of Philosophy in the Faculty of Humanities. My work focuses on:

• Epistemology of machine learning
  (e.g. explainable artificial intelligence, benchmarking, causality)
• Philosophy of science
  (e.g. robustness, scientific representation, predictive modeling)
• Ethics of AI
  (e.g. contestability, algorithmic recourse, performativity)

Before moving to Magdeburg, I was a postdoctoral researcher at the Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy (LMU Munich). There, I was part of a wonderful research group working on the Philosophy of Machine Learning, led by Dr. Tom Sterkenburg. I remain an external member of the MCMP and a member of the Munich Center for Machine Learning. Prior to my time in Munich, I was a postdoctoral researcher in the philosophy and ethics group of the Machine Learning in Science Cluster at the University of Tübingen, working with Dr. Thomas Grote.

I completed my PhD at LMU Munich under the supervision of Prof. Stephan Hartmann, on the question of what explainable AI explains. I studied mathematics, philosophy of science, computer science, and neuroscience in Tübingen, Oslo, and Munich.