Silvia Milano

Silvia will be joining TUM’s Chair of Philosophy and History of Science and Technology in Summer 2025. She is currently a Humboldt Fellow in the Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy at LMU Munich and a Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Exeter (UK). She was previously a Golding Junior Research Fellow at Brasenose College and Research Fellow in Philosophy of AI at the University of Oxford, and Postdoctoral Researcher at the Oxford Internet Institute. She obtained a PhD in Philosophy from the London School of Economics and Political Science with a thesis on the epistemology of de se beliefs. Her research interests are in Epistemology and Ethics of AI. Her recent work has focused on AI and epistemic injustice, the ethical challenges of recommender systems, polarisation on social networks, and the impacts of LLMs on education. She is currently developing a philosophical analysis of recommender systems, encompassing their social, epistemological, and ethical dimensions.​