PhAI 2025 – Programme
Book of Abstracts in PDF:
Day 1 (Thursday, 23.10.2025)
| 09:00–09:45 | Registration & Coffee (VU Main Building, 12th floor, in front of HG12) | |
| 09:45–11:30 | Introduction & Keynote A (room HG12A-00) (Guido Löhr, Vincent C. Müller, Ian Robertson) | |
| Markus Kneer (University of Graz) | ||
| “Value Forks and AI Alignment” (Chair: Müller) | ||
| 11:30–12:00 | Coffee Break (HG5A-33 & HG8A-33) | |
| 12:00–13:30 | Sessions A (1 & 2) | |
| Rooms: | HG5A-33 – Chair: Löhr | HG8A-33 – Chair: Henne |
| Pierre Beckmann | Andre Curtis-Trudel and Preston Lennon | |
| Information Recall in Deep Learning: Beyond the Feature Combination Paradigm | Evaluating representationalist folk mentalism about LLMs | |
| James McIntyre | Eliot Du Sordet | |
| The Right to Restrict AI Training | Causal Representation Problems in LLMs’ World Models | |
| Xuyang Zhang | Leora Sung and Avigail Ferdman | |
| Against the Biological Objection to Strong AI | Self-Knowledge and AI Companions | |
| 13:30-15:00 | Lunch Break | |
| 15:00–16:30 | Sessions B (1 & 2) | |
| HG5A-33 – Chair: Ohlhorst | HG8A-33 – Chair: Decock | |
| Fabio Tollon and Guido Löhr | Ayoob Shahmoradi | |
| Assertions from the Margins: On AI Answerability | Does Thinking Require Sensory Grounding? | |
| Merel Semeijn | Oshri Bar-Gil | |
| Botspeech? Bullshit! | Toward a Relational Ethics Framework for AI: Integrating Postphenomenological Analysis with Care-Centered Design Principles | |
| Kris Goffin | Nina Poth and Annika Schuster | |
| Fear Bots: Should we be afraid of proto-fearful AI? | Representation: Mental, Scientific – and Artificial? | |
| 16:30–17:00 | Coffee Break (l12th floor outside keynote venue) | |
| 17:00–18:30 | Poster Session (Restaurant F-Side) | |
| 18:30-20:00 | Reception / Borrel: Drinks & Fingerfood (Restaurant F-Side) | |
Day 2 (Friday, 24.10.2025)
| 09:00–10:30 | Keynote B (room HG12A-00) | |
| Emily Sullivan (University of Edinburgh) | ||
| “Explanation Hacking and the Tyranny of Rationalisation of AI Decisions” (Chair: Robertson) | ||
| 10:30-11:00 | Coffee Break (In respective session C rooms) | |
| 11:00–12:30 | Sessions C (1 & 2) | |
| HG10A-33 – Chair: Robertson | HG15A-33 Chair: Semeijn | |
| Samuela Marchiori | Jan Michel | |
| Low-code/no-code AI platforms and the ethics of citizen developers | Scientific Discovery and the Little Helper LLM: Proxy, Partner, or Pioneer? | |
| Maud van Lier | Pelin Kasar | |
| The Role of the Environment in Agency Debates | There Is a Problem, But Not a Responsibility Gap | |
| Susana Reis | Tobias Henschen | |
| Beyond Inductive Risk: Toward a Broader Epistemic Framework for Value-Laden Decisions in Machine Learning Models | Algorithmic decision-making and equality of opportunity | |
| 12:30–14:00 | Lunch | |
| 14:00–15:30 | Sessions D (1 & 2) | |
| HG10A-33 – Chair: Dobler | HG15A-33 – Chair: Goffin | |
| Marius Bartmann and Bert Heinrichs | Iwan Williams, Ninell Oldenburg, et al. | |
| Large Language Models As Semantic Free Riders | Mechanistic Interpretability Needs Philosophy | |
| Davide Beraldo | Linus Ta Lun Huang and Ting-An Lin | |
| (How) do machines make sense? Ethnomethods, technomethods and mechnomethods. | AI, Normality, and Oppressive Things | |
| Jakob Ohlhorst | Slater, Townsen Hicks, Humphries | |
| Folie à 1 – Artificially induced delusion and trust in LLMs | Chat GPT is still bullshit | |
| 15:30-16:00 | Coffee Break (in respective session E rooms) | |
| 16:00–17:00 | Sessions E (1 & 2) | |
| HG10A-33 – Chair: Howdle | HG15A-33 – Chair: Löhr | |
| Michael Lissack and Brenden Meagher | Carson Johnston | |
| Distributing Agency: Rethinking Responsibility in AI Development and Deployment | Navigating the Impact of Computational Science on the Concept of Epistemic Agency | |
| Sonja Spoerl, Andrew Rebera, Fabio Tollon and Lode Lauwaert | Tuhin Chattopadhyay | |
| “Virtue Theatre”: Artificial Virtues and Hermeneutic Harm | Synthetica: Toward a Unified Ontology of Artificial Consciousness | |
| 17:00–18:30 | Keynote C (room HG14A-00) | |
| Mona Simion (Glasgow U) “Artificial Epistemic Agency” (Chair: Löhr) | ||
| Concluding Remarks | ||
Accepted Posters
| Authors | Title |
|---|---|
| Uchizi Shaba | Mind Uploading |
| Michael Lissack and Brenden Meagher | LLMs as Epistemic Tools: Exformation and the Architecture of Machine Explanation |
| Roman Krzanowski | Intentionality and the Limits of LLMs |
| Alexandru Mateescu | From Artificial Intelligence to Artificial Influence: Philosophical Reflections on Personalized Persuasion and Educating for Autonomy |
| Brian Ball, Alex Cline, David Freeborn, Alice Helliwell and Kevin Loi-Heng | Concepts and Classification Algorithms: A Case Study Involving a Large Language Model |
| Peter Tsu | The Ethical Frame Problem and Moral Perception Situated in a Form of Life |
| Rayane El Masri and Aaron Snoswell | Towards Attuned AI: Integrating Care Ethics in Large Language Model Development and Alignment |
| Claas Beger | Towards AI Collaborators: Exploring Goal, Value and Role-Based Alignment |
| Markus Pantsar | Artificial and human mathematical reasoning |
| Enrique Aramendia Muneta | AI and consciousness: How long is the shadow of epiphenomenalism? |
| Adrian Cussins | life and intelligence are different responses to the same cognitive challenge |
| Huseyin Kuyumcuoglu | Contractualist Solution for the Fairness Impossibility Theorem |
| Sabato Danzilli | The writing of the query as a hermeneutical act |
| Elina Nerantzi | Between persons and things: AI agents in Criminal Law |
| Jonathan Pengelly | Moral Cartography and Machine Ethics |
| Cecilia Vergani | The Social and Political dimension of Work: Technological Unemployment as a Threat to human cooperation, social integration and solidarity. |
| Konstantinos Voukydis | Phenomenal Consciousness in the Age of Large Language Models |
| Oliver Hoffmann | Framing Subjects and Objects |
| Frieder Bögner | Attention economy, exploitation and recognition-based harms |
| Qiantong Wu | The Philosophical Zombie and The Possibility of AI Consciousness in Large Language Models |
| Rokas Vaičiulis | The Externalist Implications of Machine Learning Epistemology: Empirical Knowledge and Its Social Dimension in the Accounts of C. Buckner and M. Pasquinelli |
| Hannah Louise Mulvihill, Taís Fernanda Blauth, Oskar Josef Gstrein and Andrej Zwitter | A systematic review of values integral to ethical design frameworks for the governance of artificial intelligence |
| Daniel Hromada | Prelude to Hermeneutics of Latent Spaces |