Meaning and Understanding

• Large Language Models and the Patterns of Human Language Use: An Alternative View of the Relation of AI to Understanding and Sentience
• Do Large Language Models Advocate for Inferentialism?
• Meaning without reference in large language models
• The debate over understanding in AI’s large language models
• Large Language Models and Linguistic Understanding
• The vector grounding problem

Language acquisition and innateness

• Modern language models refute Chomsky's approach to language
• Nativism and empiricism in artificial intelligence
• The limitations of large language models for understanding human language and cognition
• From deep learning to rational machines: What the history of philosophy can teach us about the future of artificial intelligence

Language and reasoning

• Language and Thought: The View from LLMs
• How important is language for human-like intelligence?

Mental representations