Dr. Deniz Sarikaya

Deniz Sarikaya is a guest researcher at the Ethics of IT group from October to December 2023. He is also a postdoctoral researcher within the FWO-project "The Epistemology of Big Data: Mathematics and the Critical Research Agenda on Data Practices" (PIs P. Allo and K. Franҫois, both at Vrije Universiteit Brussel). He was also shortly a postdoctoral researcher funded by the DAAD-Kurzzeitstipendium with the project "Theoretical virtues of conjectures and open questions in mathematical practice". (Hosts at the University of Copenhagen: Henrik Kragh Sørensen and Mikkel Willum Johansen. Host at Technical University of Denmark - DTU: Karl Heuer). He completed his PhD in Philosophy (and the moral sciences) under the supervision of Ulrich Gähde (Hamburg) and Bart van Kerkhove (Brussels) in 2022, funded by the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes with additional ideal support by the Claussen-Simon-Stiftung. This project started in Hamburg and was augmented through a stay at the ETH Zurich, digital visits to the Institute for Basic Science (KOR), and the VaViM Project.

Deniz studied philosophy (MA 2016, BA 2012) and mathematics (MSc 2019, BSc 2015) at the University of Hamburg, focusing on the philosophy of science, philosophy of mathematics, logic, and discrete mathematics. His studies were enhanced by stays at the Institute for Logic, Language, and Computation of the Universiteit van Amsterdam, the Universitat de Barcelona, a term as a visiting student researcher at the University of California, Berkeley, and a research internship at the University of British Columbia.

He is also the Coordinator (from 01.10.23 to 30.09.2026) of the UNESCO World Logic Day. A more comprehensive profile, including a list of publications, can be found on his personal homepage: www.denizsarikaya.de

His research interests include:

• Ethics and Epistemology of Big Data
• The interplay of logic-based AI and newer machine learning approaches to AI
• The Alignment Problem
• Narratology and the perception of formal methods (including Computer Science, Logic, Mathematics, AI ...)
  
  

More generally, he is interested in:

• Philosophy of Science, esp. Values in Science
• Virtue Theory
• The later Wittgenstein
• Philosophy of Mathematics / Philosophy of Mathematical Practice
• Discrete Mathematics, especially Graph Theory
• Mathematics Education, enrichment, and empowerment