Gregor Betz

Gregor Betz is a Professor of Philosophy of Science at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), where he leads the Institute for Philosophy. His work spans the philosophy of science, computational philosophy, and argumentation theory with applications to climate science, economics, and AI ethics. He has developed formal theories of argumentative debate and computational models that enhance critical thinking teaching.

• Education: M.A. in Philosophy, Political Sciences, and Mathematics (2002), Dr. phil (Ph.D.) in Philosophy (2004), Dr. habil. in Philosophy (2008) – all from Freie Universität Berlin

His research focuses on the limits of scientific prediction (particularly in economics and climate science), the role of values in science, democratic scientific policy advice, and the ethics of climate engineering. Recently, he has pioneered computational philosophy projects using large language models since 2019.

Gregor Betz’s publications and projects (like Argunet, Argdown, and the 2020 textbook Argumentationsanalyse) have significantly impacted argumentation visualization and analysis. In 2023, he founded Logikon AI, a startup applying critical thinking methods to generative AI.

His work on NLP and AI includes the first empirical studies of LLM argumentation skills, multi-agent debate simulations, and fallacy detection frameworks. Notably, his 2021 paper on Chain of Thought reasoning preceded similar approaches in GPT-3 by Wei et al.