Artūrs Logins’ guest lecture “The Epistemology of Artificial Intelligence”

The Department of Philosophy and Ethics of the Faculty of Humanities (FH) at the University of Latvia (UL) invites interested parties to Artūrs Logins’ guest lecture “The Epistemology of Artificial Intelligence: AI as a Source, Object and Model of Knowledge”.

The lecture will take place on Friday, 24 July, at 16.00 in Room 401 of the House of Science at the UL Academic Centre (Jelgavas iela 3, Riga).The lecture will be in Latvian.

With the rapid development of large language models, generative artificial intelligence (AI) is ubiquitous. It is being used for increasingly diverse purposes — from relationship advice to the detection of serious health disorders. The use of generative AI in everyday life and research significantly affects how we acquire and disseminate knowledge in society. These changes create not only ethical and normative challenges, but also fundamental epistemological questions. Although increasing attention is being paid to AI ethics both in research and in public discussion, epistemological aspects remain comparatively underexplored. In the lecture, Artūrs Logins will examine three main sets of problems: AI as a source of knowledge, AI as an object of knowledge and AI as a model of knowledge.

Artūrs Logins is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Laval University in Quebec, Canada. His research areas are contemporary epistemology, philosophy of language and mind, normative reasons, the rationality of inquiry and the epistemology of artificial intelligence. A. Logins is the author of the monographs Normative Reasons: Between Reasoning and Explanation (Cambridge University Press, 2022) and A Critical Introduction to Knowledge-First Epistemology (Bloomsbury Academic, 2026). Together with Jacques-Henri Vollet, he has co-edited the collection of articles Putting Knowledge to Work: New Directions for Knowledge-First Epistemology (Oxford University Press, 2024). A. Logins’ articles have been published in the journals Ethics, Philosophical Studies, Analysis, Synthese, Erkenntnis, American Philosophical Quarterly and Philosophical Psychology. Before joining Laval University, A. Logins carried out postdoctoral research at the University of Zurich, the University of Southern California, King’s College London, Humboldt University of Berlin and the University of Geneva, where he obtained his PhD in Philosophy.

Additional information: liva.rotkale@lu.lv