Diego Morales
Doctoral Researcher
Philosophy & Ethics Group
Eindhoven Artificial Intelligence Systems Institute
Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e)
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About Me
I am a Doctoral Researcher in the Philosophy & Ethics Group and the Artificial Intelligence Systems Institute (EAISI) at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e). My research is supported by funding from the TU/e – EAISI Doctoral Position for the Project ‘AI Planner for the Future’.
Before coming to TU/e, I completed a MA in Philosophy and Cognitive Studies, obtained in the Language and Mind program at the Università degli Studi di Siena, Italy. Prior to that I studied in my home country, Chile, where I obtained a BA in Philosophy and a BA in Law from the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile.
Research Focus
I do research and teaching in Philosophy in a manner that is continuous with the cognitive sciences. My work examines how we can (and should) talk and make justified inferences about different kinds of minds, including human minds, animal minds, and potentially those of artificial agents.
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I enjoy the interdisciplinary nature of these topics, which allows me to explore a wide range of topics in Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Cognitive Science, Epistemology, Philosophy of Language, Artificial Intelligence, and Comparative Cognition.
I am also interested in meta-aspects of these disciplines. This includes examining the interconnected processes of methodological and conceptual exchange among them, exploring their historical interplay, and thinking about what does it mean to do philosophy about the subjects they study.
Currently, my PhD research is focused on foundational philosophical issues conerning the attribution of cognitive capacities to AI systems, with particular focus on the attribution of metacognition as a guiding case study.