Affiliation: Universität zu Lübeck
Keywords: Philosophy of AI, Philosophy of Mathematical Practice, Epistemology, General Philosophy of Science, later Wittgenstein.
Full profile: Deniz Sarikaya is a philosopher of the formal sciences (AI, mathematics & logic) working at the intersections of epistemology, philosophy of language, ethics and cognition. He is a postdoctoral researcher at the Ethical Innovation Hub (EiH) of the Universität zu Lübeck (UzL) (Chair C. Herzog). His main goal is to understand technologies and their societal impact. More precisely, his current work connects (hinge) epistemology with the ethics of AI mainly in contexts of diversity and education. He furthermore studies mathematical practice drawing from frame semantics.
Previously, Deniz Sarikaya was a postdoctoral researcher within the FWO project “The Epistemology of Big Data: Mathematics and the Critical Research Agenda on Data Practices” (at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel) and a DAAD-funded postdoc at the University of Copenhagen and Technical University of Denmark working in his project “theoretical virtues of conjectures and open questions in mathematical practice”.
Deniz Sarikaya spent short research stays at the MCMP of the LMU Munich, the Universitat de les Illes Balears, the EiH at the UzL, the Ethics in IT Group of the University of Hamburg, and at the ETH Zurich.
Deniz Sarikaya earned a PhD in Philosophy (and the Moral Sciences) at the Centre for Logic and Philosophy of Science of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, supervised by Ulrich Gähde (Hamburg) and Bart van Kerkhove (Brussels). The dissertation on the philosophy of mathematical practice was awarded the dissertation prize of the Deutsche Vereinigung für Mathematische Logik und Grundlagen der Exakten Wissenschaften (DVMLG), i.e. a talk at their PhD Colloquium. He studied philosophy (MA 2016, BA 2012) and mathematics (MSc 2019, BSc 2015) at the University of Hamburg, with stays at the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (Amsterdam), the Universitat de Barcelona, as a visiting student researcher at UC Berkeley, and in a research internship at the University of British Columbia.
In addition to this, he serves as coordinator of the UNESCO World Logic Day (appointed by CIPSH after a nomination by the DLMPST), moderator of the LOGIC mailing list, co-founder of the Young Network for Wittgensteinian Philosophy, Zweiter Vorsitzender of the William‑Stern‑Gesellschaft e.V., organizing enrichment classes for mathematically gifted youth. He is a member of the Respect Research Group and DMRCP fellow. Deniz Sarikaya was elected a Young Academy Fellow (YAF) of the Akademie der Wissenschaften in Hamburg in 2024 and is currently spokesperson of the YAFs.