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Dimitri Coelho Mollo

I am an Assistant Professor with focus in Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence. I also do research in Philosophy of Cognitive Science and Philosophy of Science.

Contact

E-mail
dimitri.mollo@umu.se
Phone
+46 90 786 66 76

Works as

Affiliation
Assistant professor at Department of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies Section: Philosophy
Location
A, Humanisthuset, HUM.C.108 Umeå universitet, 901 87 Umeå
Affiliation
Other position at Centre for Transdiciplinary AI

I am an Assistant Professor with focus in Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence. Constantly updated academic website with more information here.

My main areas of research are Philosophy of Cognitive Science and Artificial Intelligence, and Philosophy of Science. I am also interested in the ethics of current and future use of AI systems, Philosophy of Biology, Philosophy of Mind, and Philosophy of Climate Science. I am happy to supervise students in these areas.

My main focus is on foundational and epistemological issues in Artificial Intelligence and the cognitive sciences, regarding, among others, the concepts of representation, computation, and intelligence.

I have also a strong interest in scientific and philosophical communication and public engagement initiatives.

Frames of discovery and the formats of cognitive representation
Neurocognitive foundations of mind, Routledge 2026 : 98-119
Coelho Mollo, Dimitri; Vernazzani, Alfredo
AI mimicry and human dignity: chatbot use as a violation of self-respect
Journal of Applied Philosophy
van der Rijt, Jan-Willem; Coelho Mollo, Dimitri; Vaassen, Bram
AI-as-exploration: Navigating intelligence space
Theoria (Madrid)
Coelho Mollo, Dimitri
Helpful, harmless, honest?: sociotechnical limits of AI alignment and safety through reinforcement learning from human feedback
Ethics and Information Technology, Springer Nature 2025, Vol. 27, (2)
Dahlgren Lindström, Adam; Methnani, Leila; Krause, Lea; et al.
Intelligent Behaviour
Erkenntnis, Springer 2024, Vol. 89, (2) : 705-721
Coelho Mollo, Dimitri
The formats of cognitive representation: a computational account
Philosophy of science (East Lansing), Cambridge University Press 2024, Vol. 91, (3) : 682-701
Coelho Mollo, Dimitri; Vernazzani, Alfredo
A quick overview of scientific representation and modelling: James Nguyen and Roman Frigg: Scientific representation. Cambridge elements in the philosophy of science. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022, 75 pp
Metascience, Springer Nature 2023, Vol. 32 : 321-324
Coelho Mollo, Dimitri
ACROCPoLis: a descriptive framework for making sense of fairness
FAccT '23: Proceedings of the 2023 ACM conference on fairness, accountability, and transparency, ACM Digital Library 2023 : 1014-1025
Aler Tubella, Andrea; Coelho Mollo, Dimitri; Dahlgren, Adam; et al.
Beyond the Imitation Game: Quantifying and extrapolating the capabilities of language models
Transactions on Machine Learning Research
Srivastava, Aarohi; Coelho Mollo, Dimitri; Wu, Ziyi
Against Computational Perspectivalism
British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, University of Chicago Press 2021, Vol. 72, (4) : 1129-1153
Coelho Mollo, Dimitri
Conceptual Combinations - Benchmark Task for BIG-Bench
Coelho Mollo, Dimitri; Millière, Raphael; Rathkopf, Charles; et al.
Deflationary realism: Representation and idealisation in cognitive science
Mind and language
Coelho Mollo, Dimitri
Why go for a computation-based approach to cognitive representation
Synthese, Springer 2021, Vol. 199, (3-4) : 6875-6895
Coelho Mollo, Dimitri
Are There Teleological Functions to Compute?
Philosophy of science (East Lansing), Cambridge University Press 2019, Vol. 86, (3) : 431-452
Coelho Mollo, Dimitri
Content Pragmatism Defended
Topoi: An International Review of Philosophy, Springer 2017, Vol. 39, (1) : 103-113
Coelho Mollo, Dimitri
Functional individuation, mechanistic implementation: the proper way of seeing the mechanistic view of concrete computation
Synthese, Springer 2017, Vol. 195, (8) : 3477-3497
Coelho Mollo, Dimitri
Being Clear on Content - Commentary on Hutto and Satne
Philosophia, Springer 2015, Vol. 43, (3) : 687-699
Coelho Mollo, Dimitri
The vector grounding problem
Coelho Mollo, Dimitri; Millière, Raphaël
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Research projects

6 April 2023 until 5 April 2028
UmArts Art & AI research project