David Strohmaier
@dstrohmaier.bsky.social
Philosopher and Computer Scientist at the University of Cambridge. My current research applies deep learning to lexical semantic acquisition. How do neural models learn the meaning of words?
https://dstrohmaier.com
https://dstrohmaier.com
New blogpost! I put together notes on the Symbol Grounding Problem: dstrohmaier.com/Reflections-... #philosophyOfAI #NLP
Notes on the Symbol Grounding Problem » David Strohmaier
This post collects a set of notes on the Symbol Grounding Problem in the context of LLMs. In this context, the question is whether LLM systems have an approp...
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October 19, 2025 at 3:14 PM
New blogpost! I put together notes on the Symbol Grounding Problem: dstrohmaier.com/Reflections-... #philosophyOfAI #NLP
New post on the assumptions guiding our theories of learning and language acquisition: dstrohmaier.com/Assumptions-... #NLP #philosophy #linguistics
June 7, 2025 at 5:19 PM
New post on the assumptions guiding our theories of learning and language acquisition: dstrohmaier.com/Assumptions-... #NLP #philosophy #linguistics
Post the first line of your book
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"Denying the importance of philosophy to science is just as wrong as insisting on its constant and unavoidable relevance."
I never participate in these things but reading friends' opening sentences has been so much fun.
"Denying the importance of philosophy to science is just as wrong as insisting on its constant and unavoidable relevance."
I never participate in these things but reading friends' opening sentences has been so much fun.
February 4, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Post the first line of your book
"We did not always want what we want today."
"We did not always want what we want today."
Blog post on my two upcoming philosophy of AI talks: dstrohmaier.com/Two-Talks/ One talk will be heavy on #linguistics and #NLP, the other on social ontology. #AI #philosophy
Two Upcoming Talks on Philosophy and AI » David Strohmaier
I will give two talks about Philosophy and AI in the next few weeks (February 2025).
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February 3, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Blog post on my two upcoming philosophy of AI talks: dstrohmaier.com/Two-Talks/ One talk will be heavy on #linguistics and #NLP, the other on social ontology. #AI #philosophy
The ELM3 papers are online, including a paper on contrafactives I've written with Simon Wimmer: journals.linguisticsociety.org/proceedings/... #linguistics #philosophy
Vol. 3 (2025)
| Experiments in Linguistic Meaning
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January 25, 2025 at 1:28 PM
The ELM3 papers are online, including a paper on contrafactives I've written with Simon Wimmer: journals.linguisticsociety.org/proceedings/... #linguistics #philosophy
New blog post on revisiting Plato's Politeia: dstrohmaier.com/Politeia/ #philosophy
January 19, 2025 at 7:36 PM
New blog post on revisiting Plato's Politeia: dstrohmaier.com/Politeia/ #philosophy
I'll speak at this event on AI and non-human entities at Heidelberg: philevents.org/event/show/1... #AI #philosophy #philosophyofai
Künstliche Intelligenz und nicht-menschliche Entitäten: auf der Suche nach Synergien aus unterschiedlichen philosophischen Debatten
Symposium „Künstliche Intelligenz und nicht-menschliche Entitäten: auf der Suche nach Synergien aus unterschiedlichen philosophischen Debatten“ Datum: 20.-22. Februar 2025Hinterg...
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January 14, 2025 at 8:29 AM
I'll speak at this event on AI and non-human entities at Heidelberg: philevents.org/event/show/1... #AI #philosophy #philosophyofai
Upcoming event at which I will talk about my research on how neural models contrafactives (with Simon Wimmer): philevents.org/event/show/1... #philosophy #NLP4philosophy
How we do (not) talk about mistaken beliefs
The lexica of natural languages abundantly feature morphologically simple predicates that denote attitudes by which people get things right, for instance factive predicates like know. Yet, as far as w...
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January 13, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Upcoming event at which I will talk about my research on how neural models contrafactives (with Simon Wimmer): philevents.org/event/show/1... #philosophy #NLP4philosophy
LLMs, Symbol Grounding, and other Problems -- Blog post on a recent EMNLP paper: dstrohmaier.com/SGP-Pragmati... #philosophy #AI #NLP
LLMs, Symbol Grounding, and other Problems » David Strohmaier
To my surprise, the recent 2024 EMNLP conference included multiple papers with a philosophical angle. One of them attracted my attention in particular: “Pra...
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January 11, 2025 at 10:51 AM
LLMs, Symbol Grounding, and other Problems -- Blog post on a recent EMNLP paper: dstrohmaier.com/SGP-Pragmati... #philosophy #AI #NLP