Dr. Ignacio Ojea Quintana

Personal information

Ignacio Ojea has been an assistant professor at the Chair of Philosophy of Science at the Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy (MCMP) since 2022. Before that, he was a research associate for three years at the Australian National University's School of Philosophy in Canberra, where he worked on the project Humanising Machine Intelligence. Under the supervision of Prof. Philip Kitcher, he obtained his doctorate in Philosophy in 2019 at Columbia University with a thesis in the field of formal social epistemology. Previously, he obtained a BA and MA in philosophical logic from the University of Buenos Aires, where he was an active member of the Buenos Aires Logic Group.

Research interests

Ignacio researches and teaches on issues of general philosophy of science and philosophy of technology, as well as formal and social epistemology, where he makes use of mathematical, computer-aided, and data-driven methods. In his doctoral thesis, he dealt with the question of how consensus and (network) dynamics of a social group can best be represented, based on the attitudes of its individuals, whether that be opinions or judgements of sympathy. Currently, he is working on social media network analysis on controversial topics, and is also interested in the emergent field of philosophy of data science, and in the ethics of autonomous decision making.

Selected publications

1. I. Ojea Quintana, R. Reimann, M. Cheong, M. Alfano, and C. Klein. Polarization and trust in the evolution of vaccine discourse on Twitter during COVID-19. In: PLOS ONE 17.12 (2022), pp. 1–21.
2. C. Klein, R. Reimann, I. Quintana, M. Cheong, M. Ferreira, and M. Alfano. Attention and counter-framing in the Black Lives Matter movement on Twitter. In: Humanities and Social Sciences Communications (2022).
3. I. Ojea Quintana. Radical Pooling and Imprecise Probabilities. In: Erkenntnis (2022).
4. C. Evans, C. Benn, I. Ojea Quintana, P. Robinson, and S. Thiebaux. Stochastic Policies in Morally Constrained (C-)SSPs. In: Proceedings of the 2022 AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society, AIES ’22.
5. M. Alfano, R. Reimann, I. Ojea Quintana, A. Chan, M. Cheong, and C. Klein. The Affiliative Use of Emoji and Hashtags in the Black Lives Matter Movement in Twitter. In: Social Science Computer Review (2022).
6. I. Ojea Quintana, S. Rosenstock, and C. Klein. The coordination dilemma for epidemiological modelers. In: Biology and Philosophy (2021).
7. R. Stewart and I. Ojea Quintana. Learning and Pooling, Pooling and Learning. In: Erkenntnis (2018).
8. R. Stewart and I. Ojea Quintana. Probabilistic Opinion Pooling with Imprecise Probabilities. In: Journal of Philosophical Logic (2018).