PD Dr. habil. Jürgen Landes

Personal information

I have a background in mathematics (PhD in 2009) and moved to philosophy in 2012. Since then I've earned habilitations in philosophy from LMU Munich (2021) and from the Italian state in philosophy and mathematics (2023). I've been the PI of two DFG-funded projects: the first project was on evidence and Bayesian epistemology, the second project was a research network on inductive logic.

Research interests

I'm interested in uncertain reasoning broadly construed, including but not limited to: inductive logic (pure and objective Bayesian), epistemology, general philosophy of science, causal inference (in medicine and elsewhere), knowledge representation and foundations of AI.

Selected publications

1. Lorenzo Casini and Jürgen Landes. Confirmation by Robustness Analysis. A Bayesian Account. Erkenntnis, 89: pages 367–409, 2024.
2. Jürgen Landes, Soroush Rafiee Rad and Jon Williamson. Determining maximal entropy functions for objective Bayesian inductive logic. Journal of Philosophical Logic, 52: pages 555–608, 2023.
3. Barbara Osimani and Jürgen Landes. Varieties of Error and Varieties of Evidence in Scientific Inference. British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 74 (1): pages 117–170, 2023.
4. Jürgen Landes and Jon Williamson. Objective Bayesian Nets for Integrating Consistent Datasets. Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, 74: pages 393–458, 2022.
5. Jürgen Landes. The variety of evidence thesis and its independence of degrees of independence. Synthese, 198: pages 10.611–10.641, 2021.
6. Jürgen Landes, Soroush Rafiee Rad and Jon Williamson. Towards the Entropy-Limit Conjecture. Annals of Pure and Applied Logic, 172, 2021.
7. Jürgen Landes, Barbara Osimani and Roland Poellinger. Epistemology of Causal Inference in Pharmacology. European Journal for Philosophy of Science, 8: pages 3–49, 2018.
8. James Hawthorne, Jürgen Landes, Christian Wallmann and Jon Williamson. The Principal Principle implies the Principle of Indifference. British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 68: pages 123–131, 2017.
9. Jürgen Landes and Jon Williamson. Objective Bayesianism and the maximum entropy principle. Entropy, 15 (9): pages 3528–3591, 2013.
10. Jürgen Landes, Jeff B. Paris and Alena Vencovská. A survey of some recent results on Spectrum Exchangeability in Polyadic Inductive Logic. Synthese, 181: pages 19–47, 2011.