• Jasmin Özel

    Postdoctoral Associate
    Minnesota Center for Philosophy of Science · University of Minnesota

    I work in philosophy of psychology and cognitive science, with additional interests in logic and mathematics. The central theme of my research is the nature of psychological kinds, which I currently explore through debates about intentionality in large language models.

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current research

Do Large Language Models Believe? Artificial Belief and the Structure of Psychological Constructs [Draft]

papers

Ladd-Franklin’s Antilogism Revisited
South American Journal of Logic, forthcoming 2026.

Diagrammatisches Denken bei Euklid
Siegener Beiträge zur Geschichte und Philosophie der Mathematik, 2022. 

A New Conatus for the New World: Dewey’s Response to Perfectionist Conceptions of Democratic Education
(with David Beisecker and Joe Ervin)
Conatus, 2021.

The St. Louis Hegelians and the Institutionalization of Democratic Education
(with David Beisecker and Joe Ervin)
Philosophy of Education, 2021.

edited / other

Conatus, The Will to Persist
Conatus, 2021.
(special issue edited with Nikolaos Psarros)
Introduction: Conatus, the Will to Persist
(with Nikolaos Psarros) 

Ein säkulares Zeitalter? Denkströme. Journal der Sächsischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2010.

Identifizierung/Unterscheidung (with Pirmin Stekeler-Weithofer) Enzyklopädie Philosophie, 2010.

How to Integrate Underrepresented Groups in the History and Philosophy of Physics and Mathematics
Blog of the American Philosophical Association, 2022. 

Bilder als Bomben
Nahaufnahmen, 2024.
Wortschau Sonderausgabe, Sprengelmuseum Hannover.