Benjamin A. Levinstein

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign — United States

Arts and Humanities · Social Sciences

12h-index381citations25works6.42yr avg
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Research Topics

Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics(14), Philosophy and History of Science(8), Philosophy and Theoretical Science(7), Topic Modeling(3), Natural Language Processing Techniques(3)

Publications25 total

Tickles, iteration, and habits
Theory and Decision·2025Open Access
Standards for Belief Representations in LLMs
Minds and Machines·2024· 8 citedOpen Access
Bigger, Badder Bugs
Mind·2024
Standards for Belief Representations in LLMs
arXiv (Cornell University)·2024Open Access
Still no lie detector for language models: probing empirical and conceptual roadblocks
Philosophical Studies·2024· 24 citedOpen Access
Decision Theory without Luminosity
Mind·2023· 1 cited
Probability and informed consent
Metamedicine·2023· 2 cited
Still No Lie Detector for Language Models: Probing Empirical and Conceptual Roadblocks
arXiv (Cornell University)·2023· 5 citedOpen Access
Evidential Decision Theory and the Ostrich
Philosophers Imprint·2023· 1 citedOpen Access
Accuracy, Deference, and Chance
The Philosophical Review·2023· 3 cited
Deference Done Better
Philosophical Perspectives·2021· 19 cited
Act Consequentialism without Free Rides
Philosophical Perspectives·2020· 4 cited
Strict propriety is weak
Analysis·2020· 14 citedOpen Access
Cheating Death in Damascus
The Journal of Philosophy·2020· 17 cited
Imprecise Epistemic Values and Imprecise Credences
Australasian Journal of Philosophy·2019· 7 cited
An objection of varying importance to epistemic utility theory
Philosophical Studies·2018· 19 cited
A Pragmatist’s Guide to Epistemic Utility
Philosophy of Science·2017· 39 citedOpen Access
Low Impact Artificial Intelligences
arXiv (Cornell University)·2017· 15 citedOpen Access
The Foundations of Epistemic Decision Theory
Mind·2017· 48 citedOpen Access
ACCURACY UNCOMPOSED: AGAINST CALIBRATIONISM
Episteme·2017· 3 citedOpen Access
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Frequent Co-authors

Daniel A. Herrmann(4), Yoaav Isaacs(2), Jason Konek(1), Kevin Dorst(1), Bernhard Salow(1), Brooke E. Husic(1), Branden Fitelson(1), Nate Soares(1), Stuart Armstrong(1), Catrin Campbell-Moore(1), Preston Greene(1), Nir Ben‐Moshe(1), Jonathan Livengood(1), Jack Spencer(1), Kenny Easwaran(1), Ted Shear(1)