Prerequisite: open to graduate students in philosophy or to those who receive permission from the instructor. Permission will only be given to students with substantial philosophical background.

In this seminar, we are going to read a selection of the nascent philosophical (and philosophy-adjacent) literature on large language models, with an eye to how research in philosophy interfaces with it. Our focus will be on topics pertaining to language, cognition, rationality, explanation, intentionality, and learning. The seminar willbe articulated in a small number of units (3-5). Each unit will havea gateway philosophical reading (that does not have to be recent) to frame discussion. This will be followed by in-depth discussion of two or more cutting-edge articles.