Reto Gubelmann, Dr.
- Externer Dozent / Member of the teaching staff
- Address
- UZH, Philosophisches Seminar, Zürichbergstrasse 43, CH-8044 Zürich
Research
- Philosophy of Language
- Epistemology
- Metaphysics
- Philosophy of AI
Current research project (habilitation): "Reasoning, Humans, And Language AI: A Philosophical And Experimental Assessment"
Curriculum vitae
| Since 2024 | Research Group Leader at Digital Society Initiative, UZH |
| 2018 – 2024 | Various Management Roles at University of St.Gallen, final position Director of Academic Affairs and Counselling In parallel: PostDoc at Chair of Data Science and NLP (Prof. Handschuh) at the School of Computer Science |
| 2013 – 2017 | PhD in Metaphysics and Epistemology, summa cum laude, First Supervisor P. Schulthess, UZH |
| 2009 – 2012 | MA in Philosophy and Multi-Lingual Text Analysis, UZH |
| 2006 – 2009 | BA in Philosophy and Linguistics, UZH |
| 2005 – 2006 | First Pre-Diploma in Physics/Mathematics, ETH Zurich |
Teaching
Course Catalogue
| V-Nr | Course | Start / End | Date | Lecturers | Room |
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| 2425 |
06ST160-506e
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from 18.09.2026
to 18.12.2026
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gemäss Ankündigung oder indiv. Vereinbarung | Reto Gubelmann | |
| 2434 |
06ST160-507i
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from 18.09.2026
to 18.12.2026
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gemäss Ankündigung oder indiv. Vereinbarung | Reto Gubelmann | |
| 4841 |
06SE160p017a
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from 16.09.2026
to 16.12.2026
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Mi 16:15-18:00 | Reto Gubelmann | |
| 5677 |
10_1DSID0040
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from 19.10.2026
to 21.10.2026
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19.10. 09:00-17:00, 20.10. 09:00-17:00, 21.10. 09:00-13:00 | Reto Gubelmann |
Publications
ZORA Publication List
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Publications
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Journal Article
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2025
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Identifying open-texture in regulations using LLMs Artificial Intelligence and Law. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10506-025-09450-0
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2020
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Maddy vs. Quine on innate concepts. Revisiting a perennial debate in light of recent empirical results Philosophia, 48, 159–177. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11406-019-00089-1
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2019
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From shared stimuli to preestablished harmony: the development of Quine’s thinking on intersubjectivity and objective validity HOPOS, 9, 343–370. https://doi.org/10.1086/703253
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2017
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Quine and his place in history British Journal for the History of Philosophy, 25, 1249–1252. https://doi.org/10.1080/09608788.2016.1267607
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Conference or Workshop item
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2025
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Sentence Smith: Controllable Edits for Evaluating Text Embeddings (C. Christodoulopoulos, T. Chakraborty, C. Rose, & V. Peng, Eds.; pp. 26428–26445). Association for Computational Linguistics. https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2025.emnlp-main.1343
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The Shift from Logic to Dialectic in Argumentation Theory: Implications for Computational Argument Quality Assessment (O. Rambow, L. Wanner, M. Apidianaki, H. Al-Khalifa, B. Di Eugenio, & S. Schockaert, Eds.; No. 31; pp. 4789–4802). Association for Computational Linguistics. https://aclanthology.org/2025.coling-main.321/
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Assessing Reliability and Political Bias In LLMs’ Judgements of Formal and Material Inferences With Partisan Conclusions (W. Che, J. Nakatumba-Nabende, E. Shutova, & M. T. Pilehvar, Eds.; No. 63; pp. 30005–30031). Association for Computational Linguistics. https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2025.acl-long.1450
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2024
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Pragmatic norms are all you need – why the symbol grounding problem does not apply to LLMs 11663–11678. https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2024.emnlp-main.651
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Dissertation
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2019
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A science-based critique of epistemological naturalism in Quine’s tradition. (Dissertation, University of Zurich)
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Monograph
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2019
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A science-based critique of epistemological naturalism in Quine’s tradition Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-24524-5
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