Dr. Donal Khosrowi Djen-Gheschlaghi

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Donal Khosrowi hat an der Durham University (UK) in Philosophie zum Thema ‘Evidence-Based Policy’ (evidenzbasierte Politikgestaltung) und dem Problem der Extrapolation, d.h. wie man von dem Effekt einer Politikmaßnahme in einer Studienpopulation A zuverlässige Schlussfolgerungen über die Effekte derselben Maßnahmen in einer neuen Population B ziehen kann, promoviert.

Seit Oktober 2019 arbeitet er als wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter (Postdoc) am Lehrstuhl für theoretische Philosophie (Prof. Frisch). Seine aktuelle Forschung konzentriert sich auf:

1) Künstliche Intelligenz (KI) und die erkenntnistheoretischen und ethischen Fragen die KI-Systeme aufdecken, beispielsweise beim Erzeugen von Bildern und Texten mithilfe generativer KI wie StableDiffusion oder ChatGPT, oder im Kontext wissenschaftlicher Entdeckungen, wie z.B. bezüglich der Proteinstrukturen die mithilfe von Systemen wie AlphaFold 2.0 entdeckt wurden.

2) Wissenschaftliche Modelle, Simulationen und Experimente und die Frage welche Eigenschaften diese epistemischen Werkzeuge jeweils nützlich machen, voneinander unterscheiden, und welche Synergien es zwischen diesen Werkzeugen geben kann.

3) Wissenschaftstheorie der Sozialwissenschaften; insbesondere mit Bezug auf die Frage welche Rolle moralische Werte in der Formulierung wissenschaftlicher Methodologien spielen dürfen und sollten.

4) Wissenschaftstheorie der Ökonomik; insbesondere mit Bezug auf kausale Inferenz mithilfe experimenteller und quasi-experimenteller Methoden und die Frage wie kausale Schlussfolgerungen durch die Integration verschiedener Arten von Evidenz (z.B. qualitativer und quantitativer) erlangt werden können.

Schwerpunkte in Forschung und Lehre

Kausale Inferenz in den Sozialwissenschaften
Die Rolle von Werten in den Wissenschaften
Bias und Wertgeladenheit in AI
Epistemologie und Methodologie der AI-Forschung
Extrapolation kausaler Effekte
Wissenschaftliche Repräsentation mithilfe von Modellen und Simulationen

Publikationen

2023	"Extrapolating from Experiments, Confidently", European Journal for Philosophy of Science, 13:18. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13194-023-00520-1
2023	"Managing Performative Models", Philosophy of the Social Sciences https://doi.org/10.1177/0048393123117245
2022	With Elinor Clark "Decentring the discoverer: how AI helps us rethink scientific discovery". Synthese 200, 463. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-022-03902-9
2022	"Evidence-Based Policy" In Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Economics, edited by Julian Reiss and Conrad Heilmann, Routledge.
2021	"What's (successful) Extrapolation?", Journal of Economic Methodology. https://doi.org/10.1080/1350178X.2021.1952290
2021	With Philippe van Basshuysen, Lucie White, und Mathias Frisch: "Three Ways in Which Pandemic Models May Perform a Pandemic", Erasmus Journal of Philosophy and Economics, 14(1), 110–127. https://doi.org/10.23941/ejpe.v14i1.582
2021	"When Experiments need Models", Philosophy of the Social Sciences, 51(4):400-424. https://doi.org/10.1177/00483931211008542
2020	With Julian Reiss (Linz). “Evidence-Based Policy: The Tension between the Epistemic and the Normative”, Critical Review, 31(2):179-197. https://doi.org/10.1080/08913811.2019.1688520
2020	“Getting Serious about Shared Features” The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 71(2):523–546. https://doi.org/10.1093/bjps/axy029
2019	“Trade-offs Between Epistemic and Moral Values in Evidence-Based Policy”, Economics & Philosophy, 35(1):49-78. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0266267118000159
2019	“Extrapolation in Econometrics – Hopes, Assumptions, and the Extrapolator’s Circle”, The Journal of Economic Methodology, 28(1):45-58. https://doi.org/10.1080/1350178X.2018.1561078

Vorträge

2023	"Decentring the Discoverer and Creator", Minnesota Center for Philosophy of Science (MCPS) International Postdoc Forum (online), 8 February.
2022	"External Validity as an Achievement", PSA 2022, Pittsburgh, 10-13 November.
2022	"Generalization in Machine Learning: A Plea for Better Theory", PhilML2022: Philosophy of Science Meets Machine Learning, Tübingen, 20-22 October.
2022	"Managing Performative Models", ENPOSS 2022, Málaga, 21-23 September.
2022	“Extrapolation - Where is Our Theory of Confidence?”, GWP2022, Berlin, 16 September.
2022	"Managing Performative Models", SPSP 2022, Ghent, 3 July.
2022	"Managing Performative Models", 12^th Braga Meetings on Ethics and Political Philosophy (in person), Braga, 27 June.
2022	"Managing Performative Models", ISEC Colloquium Universität Witten/Herdecke (invited), 8 February.
2022	"No (Value-)Free Lunch: How Moral Values Matter for Methodology", American Economic Association / ASSA 2022 (hybrid conference), 7 January.
2021	"Managing Performative Models", INEM 2021 (hybrid), November 12.
2021	"Towards Democratic Evidence" (poster talk) PPE conference 2021 "Democracy Between Order and Chaos", Witten/Herdecke University, 17-19 September.
2021	“Extrapolation - Where is Our Theory of Confidence?”, EPSA 2021 (hybrid conference), Turin, 15-18 September.
2021	“Extrapolation - Where is Our Theory of Confidence?”, BSPS 2021 (online conference) 6-9 July.
2020	“Experiments need Models”, ENPOSS 2020 (virtual conference), Toulouse, 14-18 September.
2020	“Ampliative Evidence Integration - The Case of Evidence-Based Policy”, Evidential Pluralism and the Social Sciences (virtual conference), Kent, 16-17 July.
2020	“When Mechanisms Sleep”, Philosophy of Social Science Roundtable, Emory University, Atlanta, 12-15 March.
2019	“When Mechanisms Sleep”, Departmental Research Seminar, Leibniz Universität Hannover, 17 December.
2019	“When Mechanisms Sleep”, Irish Philosophical Society Annual Conference, University College Cork, 6-7 December.
2019	“What’s (successful) extrapolation?”, Symposium on “Methodology of extrapolation and external validity: theoretical and practical appraisals in economics” w/ Judith Favereau, Maria Jiminez-Buedo, Michiru Nagatsu, Luis Moreles-Flores, Federica Russo, Sofia Blanco Sequeiros, INEM 2019, Helsinki, Finland, 19-21 August.
2019	“What’s (successful) extrapolation?”, BSPS2019, Durham University, July 17-19.
2019	“Idle Causes, Idle Inferences”, Economic Behaviours: Models, Measurements, and Policies, Lake Como School of Advanced Studies, June 30- July 5.
2018	“Evidence-Based Policy and Its Hidden Costs of Justice” (w/Julian Reiss, Durham) PSA2018, Biennal Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association, Seattle, Washington, 1-4 November.
2018	Symposium: “External Validity: What is it and how do we get it?” with Maria Jiminez-Buedo (UNED), Michiru Nagatsu (TINT), and Federica Russo (UVA), SPSP 2018, Ghent, Belgium, 29 June – 2 July.
2018	“Getting Serious about Shared Features”, Models and Simulations 8, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, USA, 15-17 March.
2017	“A Challenge for Value-Freedom and –Neutrality in Evidence-Based Policy”, DGPhil 2017 XXIV. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Philosophie, Berlin, Germany, 24-27 September.
2017	“Getting Serious about Shared Features”, EPSA17, Exeter, UK, 6-9 September.
2017	"Putting Rigor Back into Pragmatic trials" (w/Sarah Wieten, Stanford), EPSA17, Exeter, UK, 6-9 September.
2017	“Extrapolation of Causal Effects – Hopes, Assumptions and the Extrapolator’s Circle”, INEM 2017, San Sebastián, Spain, 28-30 August.
2017	“Value-Freedom and –Neutrality in Evidence-Based Policy”, YSI Young Scholars Initiative Workshop, San Sebastián, Spain, 27 August.
2017	"Putting Rigor back into Pragmatic Trials" (w/Sarah Wieten, Stanford), NNPS Fifth Annual Meeting of the Nordic Network for Philosophy of Science, Copenhagen, Denmark, 20-21 April.
2016	“Trade-offs Between Epistemic and Moral Values in Evidence-Based Policy”, PSA2016, Biennal Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association, Atlanta, Georgia, 3-5 November.
2016	“Trade-offs Between Epistemic and Moral Values in Evidence-Based Policy”, 5th René Descartes Lectures 2016, Workshop: “Science, Values and Democracy”, Tilburg, The Netherlands, 5-7 September.
2016	“Getting Serious about Shared Features”, BSPS British Society for Philosophy of Science Annual Conference, Cardiff, UK, 6-9 June.
2016	“Scientific and Moral Value Entanglement as a Challenge to Evidence-Based Policy”, Values in Medicine Science and Technology 6, UT Dallas, Dallas, Texas, 19-23 May.

Lehrveranstaltungen

WiSe 2022/23	Philosophy and Public Policy Ethics and Philosophy of Digital Technologies
SoSe 2022	Einführung in die Erkenntnistheorie Advanced Topics in the Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence Contemporary Issues in Philosophy of Science (w/ Tanja Rechnitzer)
WiSe 2021/22	Project Seminar (MA level skill building course) Project Week (MA level skill building course) Evidence-Based Policy and Practice
SoSe 2021	Models, Simulations, and Experiments Advanced Topics in the Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence
WiSe 2020/21	Project Seminar (MA level skill building course) Project Week (MA level skill building course)
SoSe 2020	Causation Philosophy of Economics
WiSe 2019/20	Philosophie der künstlichen Intelligenz (Philosophy of AI) Introduction to Philosophy of Science
WiSe 2017/18	Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy (Single lecture, Durham University) Values in Science (University of Bayreuth, w/Erin Nash)
SoSe 2017	Philosophy of Economics (University of Bayreuth)
WiSe 2016/17	Does Capitalism Promote or Prevent Democracy? (Single lecture, Durham University) Evidence-Based Policy (University of Bayreuth, w/Tobias Grohmann, Groningen)
SoSe 2016	Evidence-Based Policy (University of Bayreuth, w/Tobias Grohmann, Groningen)
WiSe 2015/16	Foundational Issues in Philosophy of Economics (University of Bayreuth)
SoSe 2015	Foundational Issues in Philosophy of Economics (University of Bayreuth)

Stipendien und Preise

2021	PPE Young Scholars Award for Social and Institutional Change (Institute for Social and Institutional Change [ISIC], Witten/Herdecke University)
2018-19	Royal Institute of Philosophy Jacobsen Studentship
2015-18	Durham Doctoral Scholarship
2015-18	AHRC Northern Bridge Studentship

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PhilPeople

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