Beyond NUL, I am a member of the Humanities and Data Science Group (formerly: Turing Institute's Humanities and Data Science Special Interest Group), a member of the Advisory Board of the Centre for Philosophy of Natural and Social Science at the London School of Economics, as well as a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (Advanced HE). Finally, I dabble in coding and have developed The Logic Calculator.
My main area of expertise is the Philosophy of Science, particularly the scientific realism debate, but I also have active research interests in epistemology, metaphysics, meta-philosophy and the Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence. Together with various colleagues, I edited a number of special issues on themes like the underdetermination of theory by evidence, the role and value of novel predictions in confirmation, the nature of unification and coherence, the extent to which observation is theory-laden and the future of Philosophy. I have also co-edited the European Philosophy of Science Association 2013 Conference Proceedings (Springer 2015).
I'm currently on Sabbatical, visiting the University of Bern (Switzerland) courtesy of an SNSF Scientific Exchanges Grant, and working on the problem of automating scientific discovery via neuro-symbolic AI systems. Some of the other projects I'm concurrently working on include how to boost philosophical research with AI tools and methods, analogical reasoning modelling, the epistemology of machine learning, a visual representation of logical inferences, propositional logic automated theorem proving, pedagogical experiments on conditional reasoning, and prompt engineering. The last of these is funded by a British Academy / Leverhulme Foundation SRG for a project titled ‘Reverse Engineering Prompts’, of which I'm the PI. The project seeks to determine effective and efficient ways we humans phrase queries to other humans, and then seeks to test the efficacy of those ways in the context of human-chatbot interactions.
Philosophy Faculty, Northeastern University London, Devon House, 58 St Katharine's Way, London E1W 1LP. ioannis.votsis(/a-t\)nulondon.ac.uk