Dr. Annika Schuster
Telefon:
(+49)231 755-4922
Postadresse:
Emil-Figge-Straße 50
44227 Dortmund
Deutschland
Campus Adresse:
Campus Nord
EF50
Raum:
2.250
Aktuelle Position:
Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin am Institut für Philosophie und Politikwissenschaft im Emmy Noether Programm der DFG
UDNN: Scientific Understanding and Deep Neural Network
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Lehr-und Forschungsbereich
Philosophy of Science, Epistemology, Philosophy of AI, Cognitive Science, Philosophy of Biology
Vita
Scientific positions
- Since 10/2023: Postdoctoral position at the project “UDNN: Scientific understanding and deep neural networks”, TU Dortmund.
- Since 09/2022: Associated research fellow at the project “Parametrized Frames and Conceptual Spaces”, HHU Düsseldorf.
- 09/2022 – 08/2023: Guest scientist at the research group “Concepts, Logic, and Reasoning”, Institute Jean Nicod Paris.
- 2016 – 2019: Research fellow at the CRC991: “The structure of representations in language, cognition, and science”, HHU Düsseldorf.
- 2012 – 2015: Student assistant at the Chair for Theoretical Philosophy, HHU Düsseldorf.
Education
- 2016-2022: PhD in Philosophy at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf.
- 2016: M.A. Philosophy at HHU Düsseldorf.
- 2016-2019: Research fellow at the Collaborative Research Center 991, HHU Düsseldorf.
- 2015: B.A. Philosophy (minor linguistics) at HHU Düsseldorf.
Publikationen
- Boge, F., Schuster, A., Stoll, Frauke (2026): Disentangling scientific and scientists’ understanding, Synthese 207 (243).
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- Poth, N., & Schuster, A. (2026): Mental, scientific, and artificial representations. Philosophy and the Mind Sciences 7(1).
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- Schuster, A. (2026): Understanding Protein Folding with Machine Learning Models? The Case of AlphaFold 2, Synthese 207 (66).
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- Schuster, A., Boge, F. (2025): How can we trust opaque systems? Criteria for robust explanations in XAI, Proceedings of IJCNN2025.
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- Schuster, A. (2022): Prototype Frames – A probabilistic account of typicality, dissertation.
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- Strößner, C., Schuster, A., Schurz, G. (2021): Modification and Default Inheritance. In: Löbner, S., Gamerschlag, T., Kalenscher, T., Schrenk, M., Zeevat, H. (eds) Concepts, Frames and Cascades in Semantics, Cognition and Ontology. Language, Cognition, and Mind, vol 7. Springer,Cham.
- Schuster, A, Strößner, C, Sutton, P. & Zeevat, H. (2020): Stochastic frames. In: Proceedings of the Probability and Meaning Conference (PaM 2020), ACL Anthology.
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Dapprich, J. P., Schuster, A. (2016): Philosophy and Logic of Quantum Physics, Philosophical Foundations of the Sciences and their Applications, vol 5, G. Schurz (ed.), Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main.