Assistant professor theoretical philosophy
Focus on Formal Philosophy, Agent Based Simulations in Philosophy.
For more see: www.dominikklein.dk and uu.nl/staff/DKlein
Contact: d.klein@uu.nl
Working on
- whether and how collective patterns – from common beliefs to societal inequality – emerge through the interaction of individuals.
- abm applied to questions in epistemology, philosophy of action (rationality), positive political theory (emergence of trust, revolutions), normative political theory (epistemic comparison of political systems, emergence of inequality)
- philosophy of simulations
Relevant other positions
- Coordinator SIG ‘Knowledge Representation and Reasoning’
Teaching
- Wiskunde voor KI
- AI for an open society
- Methods in AI research
Three relevant publications
- Agent-Based Modeling in Social Science, History, and Philosophy: An Introduction (with Johannes Marx and Kai Fischbach)
Historical Social Research (2018) - Rationality in Context – On inequality and the epistemic problems of maximizing expected utility (with Johannes Marx and Simon Scheller), Synthese (2020)
- Wenn Du gehst, geh ich auch. Die Rolle von Informationskaskaden bei der Entstehung von Massenbewegungen (with Johannes Marx),
Politische Vierteljahresschrift (2017) [English Translation in Progress]