Leander Hirschsteiner

Short Bio

Leander Hirschsteiner investigates what makes a good explanation. For him, explaining happens in argumentation and dialogue and good explanations cater for the specific gaps in understanding of one’s partner. In his research, he develops models of these pratices so that humans and machines explain and understand one another (and themselves) more easily. Christian’s and Kees van Berkel’s supervision, as well as his background in the application of logical methods for formal modeling, defeasible reasoning, and social sciences, help him in this work.

Recent Activities with our Group

2026-10-28 : New paper on “Ignorance is not Bliss: Deontic Risk and the Asking of Questions” forthcoming in the proceedings of AI^3

2026-07-17 : Visitors: Badran Raddaoui and Leander Hirschsteiner

Publications

2026

• Straßer, Christian and Cissell, Isabella and Hirschsteiner, Leander and Krugmeier, Hauke (2026). Ignorance is not Bliss: Deontic Risk and the Asking of Questions. Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Advances in Argumentation in Artificial Intelligence (AI${}^3$ 2026).

2026

• Straßer, Christian and Cissell, Isabella and Hirschsteiner, Leander and Krugmeier, Hauke (2026). Ignorance is not Bliss: Deontic Risk and the Asking of Questions. Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Advances in Argumentation in Artificial Intelligence (AI${}^3$ 2026).