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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.

 
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Publications

Do Emotions Represent Values and How Can We Tell? Mind and Language

Navigating Recalcitrant Emotions Journal of Philosophy

Real Sparks of Artificial Intelligence and the Importance of Inner Interpretability Inquiry

LLMs Are Not Just Next Token Predictors (with Steve Downes and Patrick Frober) 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

Emotions as Transitions

A paper on inner interpretability and benchmarking (with Ben Henke)

A short book on LLMs, Reference, and World Models (with Derek Ball)