Conrad Friedrich

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Postdoc


MCMP, LMU Munich

Ludwigstr. 31 (room 223)

80539 Munich

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

My research focuses on epistemology (inquiry as well as formal epistemology) and the philosophy of language (indeterminacy, semantics of questions, subject matter, and truthmaker semantics).

I’m also interested in issues 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.

publications

  1. Forthcoming
    Defending the Classical Model of Communication against the Challenge from Indeterminacy.
    Conrad Friedrich
    Synthese, 2025
  2. PhD Thesis
    What Did You Say? A Philosophical Model of Communication and Indeterminacy
    Conrad Friedrich
    Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, 2025
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  3. Under Review
    What is an Answer to a Question?
    Conrad Friedrich
    Under Review, 2025
  4. Under Review
    Probabilifying the Scenario Approach to Legal Proof
    Mario Guenther, and Conrad Friedrich
    Under Review, 2025

news

Oct 03, 2025 My paper ``Defending the Classical Model of Communication against the Challenge from Indeterminacy'' has been accepted at Synthese. The published version will be available soon.
Oct 02, 2025 On November 4th, I’ll present at the Research Seminar Theoretical Philosophy of Christian Nimtz in Bielefeld.
Sep 05, 2025 I’ll talk about the semantics of questions and the epistemology of inquiry at the MCMP WiP series on November 20th, 2025.
Sep 01, 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.
Aug 20, 2025 I’ll talk about my new project on the semantics of questions and the epistemology of inquiry at the Inquiry Network WiP series on November 21st, 2025.
Jul 29, 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.
Jun 01, 2025 In the coming winter semester, I’ll teach a introductory class in epistemology at LMU Munich (in German), focussing on truth, knowledge, and belief.
May 15, 2025 In September, I’ll present at GAP12 in Duesseldorf about probabilistic theories of legal proof (joint work with Mario Guenther).
Apr 09, 2025 In August, I’ll present at EPSA25 in Groningen about probabilistic theories of legal proof (joint work with Mario Guenther).
Apr 02, 2025 This summer semester, I will teach a class at LMU Munich on selected topics in the philosophy of language (in German). More information here.
Feb 07, 2025 I successfully defended my PhD thesis at LMU Munich with “summa cum laude”.