DebateLab@KIT computational philosophy projects

AI and Humanities: Panel discussion

How will GenAI reshape the humanities? I had the pleasure to join Stefan Scherer, Michael Schefczyk and Kevin Schumacher at a panel discussion on June 26, 2025, (as part of the “Fortbildungsreihe: Künstliche Intelligenz in der Hochschullehre (FOKI)” organized by the Hochschulnetzwerk Digitalisierung der Lehre Baden-Württemberg, HND-BW). This i... Read more

Argunauts: Open LLMs that Master Argument Analysis with Argdown

This post is tracking the Argunauts project. We’re currently trying to teach LLMs logical argument analysis and argument mapping with Argdown, and are sharing progress and lessons learned in a series of articles. 1️⃣ Argunauts: Goals, Challenges, Masterplan 📘 2️⃣ Argunauts Training Phase I: Continual Pretraining on Synthetic Data 📘 3️⃣ Arguna... Read more

syncIAL🍏: A Multi-Purpose Synthetic Debate and Argument Mapping Corpus

[cross-posted from https://huggingface.co/blog/ggbetz/introducing-syncialo] 🛢️ Dataset at HF Hub 👩‍💻 Python Code Repo 🏋️‍♀️ Distilled ML Dataset What exactly is syncIALO? syncIALO is a collection of synthetic argument mapping datasets. Its first and primary corpus (uninspiringly called synthetic_corpus-001) contains >600k cla... Read more

Studying Rational Agency and Epistemic Communities with Large Language Models

[🖥️ Slides] [📓 Jupyter Notebook] In a keynote at the Workshop on Computational Models in Social Epistemology 2023, organised by the RUB Research Group on Reasoning, Rationality and Science as part of the DFG network “Simulations of Scientific Inquiry”, we’ve reviewed and critically reflected on the emergent field of LLM-based multi-agent simul... Read more

Can Large Language Models Rationally Revise Their Beliefs? (And Do They Possess Beliefs at All?)

[📝 Paper 1] [📝 Paper 2] [📈 Data at WandB] Large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT are about to revolutionize our linguistic practices. These systems are highly proficient in writing, processing, and analysing texts. ChatGPT, for example, can pass an MBA exam, write a business plan, improve code, argue fervently for (or against) a policy pro... Read more