Mario Günther, PhD

Personal information

Mario Günther is an Assistant Professor (akademischer Rat) at the Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy of LMU Munich. Previously, he worked at the Australian National University and visited the London School of Economics and Political Science. He was a Junior Researcher in Residence at the Center for Advanced Studies in winter term 2023/24. He received the 2022 Wolfgang Stegmüller Award for the paper “Learning Conditional Information by Jeffrey Imaging on Stalnaker Conditionals” published in the Journal of Philosophical Logic in 2018.

Research interests

Mario Günther's research centers on applying logical and mathematical tools to philosophical problems in epistemology, metaphysics, and the philosophies of science, language, law, and artificial intelligence. Currently, he is principal investigator of a research project on legal proof funded by the Junior Research Fund of LMU Munich.

Selected publications

1. (forthc.) Actual Causation (with Holger Andreas), dialectica
2. (2024) A Regularity Theory of Causation (with Holger Andreas), Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 105(1): 2-32.
3. (2023) Counterfactuals for Causal Responsibility in Legal Contexts (with Holger Andreas and Matthias Armgardt), Artificial Intelligence and Law 31(1): 115-132.
4. (2022) Causal and Evidential Conditionals, Minds and Machines 32(4): 613-626.
5. (2022) Algorithmic and Human Decision Making: For a Double Standard of Transparency (with Atoosa Kasirzadeh), AI & Society 37(1): 375-381
6. (2021) Regularity and Inferential Theories of Causation (with Holger Andreas), The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
7. (2021) Difference-Making Causation (with Holger Andreas), Journal of Philosophy 118(12): 680-701.
8. (2021) A Ramsey Test Analysis of Causation for Causal Models (with Holger Andreas), British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 72(2): 587-615.
9. (2020) Causation in Terms of Production (with Holger Andreas), Philosophical Studies 177(6): 1565-1591.
10. (2019) On the Ramsey Test Analysis of ‘Because” (with Holger Andreas) Erkenntnis 84(6): 1229-1262.