diff --git a/people/mrapp.md b/people/mrapp.md index 6376e7b515d1d0ba8e77ceb8bd08fa36f3266949..b388618284b29b331faaa3d407a73ed59037c070 100644 --- a/people/mrapp.md +++ b/people/mrapp.md @@ -1,9 +1,9 @@ ---- +--- layout: person title: Max Rapp fullname: M.Sc. Max Rapp -SOONpic: public/images/dmueller.jpg +pic: public/images/mrapp.jpg role: phd-student start_date: 2018-09 @@ -14,5 +14,21 @@ affiliation: Computer Science, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg NOwebsite: http://blog.logicalphalluses.net/ --- -### Contact -Email: "d." + lastname.replace("ü","ue") + "@" + this.domain +### Description + +I am a PhD student at KWARC working on the [ALMANAC](https://kwarc.info/projects/almanac/)-project. + +In the broadest sense, I try to do practical philosophy by finding "good enough" answers to the +foundational theoretical questions of a field to allow practical application. + +A bit more concretely, I am currently interested in supplementing statistical AI with techniques from symbolic AI to +remedy some of its shortcomings with respect to explainability, principledness and user empowerment. + +Yet more concretely, I am trying to contribute to the maturation of argumentation technologies by investigating the theoretical +relationships between various argumentation frameworks and providing tools for their implementation. + +I obtained my MSc in Logic at the University of Amsterdam. My Master thesis focussed on logics for argumentation, argument based belief and their dynamics. It can be accessed [here](https://eprints.illc.uva.nl/1631/1/MoL-2018-17.text.pdf). + +Before that I did undergraduate work in Philosophy at the Munich School of Philosophy and obtained an MSc in Philosophy of Science from the London School of Economics and Political Science. + +My Email address is _myFirstName_._myLastName_@fau.de diff --git a/public/images/mrapp.jpg b/public/images/mrapp.jpg new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..8a75a7381464304acf16e0cbe5d833fd34a66483 Binary files /dev/null and b/public/images/mrapp.jpg differ