Dr. Edoardo Baccini
Research Associate
Chair of Philosophy of Science, MCMP
Office hours:
By appointment
Postal address:
Geschwister-Scholl-Platz 1
80539 Munich
Personal information
Since September 2025, Edoardo is a postdoctoral researcher at the Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy at LMU Munich. He obtained a PhD in artificial intelligence at the University of Groningen with a dissertation titled “Logical and Computational Approaches to Dynamics of Intelligent Interaction”. Prior to that, he completed a master’s degree in logic and philosophy of science at LMU Munich in 2021, and a bachelor’s degree in philosophy at the University of Florence in 2019.
Research interests
Edoardo’s research is concerned with the dynamics of knowledge acquisition, belief formation and opinion diffusion in social contexts. At the intersection of social epistemology and formal epistemology, Edoardo makes use of a variety of formal methods (dynamic logics, probability theory and agent-based modeling) to study information dynamics in social groups and in social networks. His current research focuses on: the development of formal frameworks for assessing the adequacy of agent communication (belief merge, preference aggregation) from the standpoint of formal learning theory; the application of Bayesian Networks and agent-based modeling to study the emergence of order effects in single-agent belief dynamics and of social anchoring effects in epistemic collectives; the application of logical tools to model social network phenomena. He is also interested in the philosophical debates around peer review and open science.
Selected publications
Who is Afraid of Minimal Revision? (In press) (with Zoé Christoff, Nina Gierasimczuk and Rineke Verbrugge), in: A. Bjorndahl (Ed.), Proceedings of Theoretical Aspects of Rationality and Interaction (TARK) 2025. Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science.
Dynamic Logics of Diffusion and Link Changes on Social Networks (2024) (with Zoé Christoff and Rineke Verbrugge), Studia Logica, DOI: 10.1007/s11225-024-10126-0
The Wisdom of the Small Crowd: Myside Bias and Group Discussion (2023) (with Zoé Christoff, Stephan Hartmann and Rineke Verbrugge), Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulations 26(4), DOI: 10.18564/jasss.5184