Alex Grzankowski
Department of Philosophy
Birkbeck, University of London
alex.grzankowski@gmail.com
I am Reader in Philosophy at Birkbeck, University of London working primarily in Mind, Language, Metaphysics, and Epistemology. I am also the Associate Director of the Institute of Philosophy at the School of Advanced Study and the Director of the London AI and Humanity Project.
Work
Media
Ethical Machines Podcast - ChatGPT Does not Understand Anything
London Philosophy Talk - Reference and Attitude Ascriptions
Dr. Sahar Joakim interviews Dr. Grzankowski on Mental Attitudes
On Margaret Cavendish - With Prof. Susan James and Dr. Lauren Slater
Chat GPT and Other Creative Rivals Conference (Day 1) (Day 2)
Publications
Navigating Recalcitrant Emotions Journal of Philosophy
Real Sparks of Artificial Intelligence and the Importance of Inner Interpretability Inquiry
The Essence of the Mental (with Ray Bunchanan) European Journal of Philosophy
Attitudes Towards Objects Nous
Sensory Modality and Perceptual Reasons (with Mark Schroeder) Episteme
Propositions as Objects of the Attitudes (with Ray Buchanan) in The Routledge Handbook of Propositions
Awareness of Universals in Thought: its Origin and Reach. Essays in Honour of Mark Sainsbury. Routledge
The Significance of the Many Property Problem (with Tim Crane) Phenomenology and Mind
Propositions on the Cheap (with Ray Buchanan) Philosophical Studies
Content Pluralism (with Ray Buchanan) Inquiry
Moods: From Diffusiveness to Dispositionality (with Mark Textor) Inquiry
Generality Generalised (published in Croatian as ‘Poopćena općenitost’, keynote lecture given in celebration of the “Day of the Institute”, Institute of Philosophy, Zagreb)
A Puzzle for Evaluation Theories of Desire Thought: A Journal of Philosophy
What Acquaintance Teaches (with Michael Tye) In Acquaintance: New Essays, OUP
Non-Propositional Contents and How to Find Them Journal of Consciousness Studies (Annual Essay Prize Joint Winner at the Center for Philosophical Psychology, University of Antwerp)
A Relational Theory Of Non-Propositional Attitudes in Non-Propositional Intentionality, OUP
Pictures Have Propositional Content Review of Philosophy and Psychology
Non-Propositional Attitudes Philosophy Compass
'Can' and the Consequence Argument Ratio
Not All Attitudes Are Propositional European Journal of Philosophy
Limits of Propositionalism Inquiry
The Real Trouble With Recalcitrant Emotions Erkenntnis
The Determinable-Determinate Relation Can't Save Adverbialism Analysis
To Believe Is Not To Believe True: Reply to Sankey Principia: An International Journal of Epistemology
Why Bother With Mental Representations? (Review of What are Mental Representations?, OUP; with Ray Buchanan)
Non-Propositional Intentionality (OUP - co-edited with Michelle Montague)
Thought: its Origin and Reach. Essays in Honour of Mark Sainsbury. (Routledge - co-edited with Anthony Savile)
Things I’m Working On
Do Emotions Represent Values and How Can We Tell?
A paper on biological functions and what LLMs do (with Patrick Forber and Steve Downes)
A paper on inner interpretability and benchmarking (with Ben Henke and Herman Cappelen)
A paper on comparative cognitive science and LLMs (with Ali Boyle)