Gregor Betz

Gregor Betz

Professor

DebateLab

Gregor Betz is professor of philosophy of science at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. He is head of DebateLab and, together with Christian Seidel, co-head of CompPhil²MMAE.

Gregor has been studying the limits of scientific prediction, esp. in economics and climate science, the role of values in science, requirements of democratic scientific policy advice, and the ethics of climate engineering. He has developed a formal theory and computational models of argumentative debate, and applied these methods to clarify key concepts in epistemology, to interpret classical texts, to assess consensus- and truth-conduciveness of debate, as well as to to improve critical thinking teaching.

For a couple of years now, Gregor has been pursuing computational philosophy projects at the intersection of NLP and AI involving so-called large language models.

Moreover, in 2023, Gregor has founded Logikon AI, a startup that applies critical thinking methods to improve generative AI.

Check his blog for updates about recent computational philosophy projects.

Interests
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Philosophy of Science
  • Computational Philosophy
  • Argumentation
  • Democracy
Education
  • M.A. Philosophy, Political Sciences, Mathematics, 2002

    Freie Universität Berlin

  • Dr. phil (Ph.D.) Philosophy, 2004

    Freie Universität Berlin

  • Dr. habil. (Habilitation) Philosophy, 2008

    Freie Universität Berlin