Conrad Friedrich

I’m an assistant professor of philosophy at the Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy (MCMP) at LMU Munich.

My research focuses on epistemology (inquiry as well as formal epistemology) and philosophy of language (indeterminacy, semantics of questions, subject matter, and truthmaker semantics). I’m also interested in the philosophy of artificial intelligence (meaning and understanding in LLMs), and metaphysics (truth and truthmakers).

I obtained a PhD in philosophy from LMU Munich with a dissertation defending a truth conditional account of communication against challenges from semantic indeterminacies, supervised by Hannes Leitgeb and Christian List.

You can email me at conrad.friedrich [at] lmu.de. Here is my CV.

Publications

• Defending the Classical Model of Communication Against the Challenge from Indeterminacy. Synthese 206, 236 (2025). Open Access.
• What did you say? A Philosophical Model of Communication and Indeterminacy. PhD Thesis, LMU Munich (2025).
• What is an Answer to a Question? A Simple Proposal. Under Review.
• Probabilifying the Scenario Approach to Legal Proof (with Mario Guenther). Under Review.

News

• I’ll talk about my new project on the semantics of questions and the epistemology of inquiry at the Inquiry Network WiP series (November 21st, 2025).
• I’ll talk about the semantics of questions and the epistemology of inquiry at the MCMP WiP series (November 20th, 2025).
• My paper 'Defending the Classical Model of Communication against the Challenge from Indeterminacy' has been published at Synthese in Open Access (November 05th, 2025).
• I presented at the Research Seminar in Theoretical Philosophy of Christian Nimtz in Bielefeld. (November 04th, 2025).
• For the next 12 months, I’ll take up the role of assistant professor at the MCMP, chair of logic and philosophy of language, substituting for Alessandra Marra. (September 30th, 2025)
• I talked about relations between the semantics of questions, truthmakers, and subject matter at the MCMP Summer School for Widening Participation in Mathematical Philosophy (July 29th, 2025).
• In the coming winter semester 2025/2026, I’ll teach a introductory class in epistemology at LMU Munich (in German), focussing on knowledge, belief, and epistemic inquiry (June 1st, 2025).
• I presented at GAP12 in Duesseldorf about probabilistic theories of legal proof (joint work with Mario Guenther) (September 10th, 2025).
• I presented at EPSA25 in Groningen about probabilistic theories of legal proof (joint work with Mario Guenther) (August 28th, 2025).
• In this summer semester 2025, I will teach a class at LMU Munich on introductory topics in the philosophy of language (in German) (April 2nd, 2025).
• I successfully defended my PhD thesis at LMU Munich with “summa cum laude” (February 2nd, 2025).