Fintan Mallory

Dr. Fintan Mallory is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Durham University, with research interests at the intersection of linguistics, machine learning, and philosophy. Prior to Durham, he held teaching and research positions at the University of Oslo, St. Catherine's College, Oxford, and King's College London, where he earned his PhD in 2019.

• Education: PhD in Philosophy (2019, King's College London)

Research Focus: Mallory explores how neural networks represent knowledge, applying teleosemantics to analyze model interpretability. His work bridges philosophy of language (e.g., semantic competence in generative grammar) and social philosophy (e.g., AI's societal impact on capital-labor dynamics). Recent projects include stochastic measurement in AI and subspace analysis of philosophical texts.

Key Contributions: His publications address recursion in generative grammar, AI ethics, and methodological challenges in computational linguistics. He has also developed open-source tools for PDF highlighting extraction and word2vec model training to aid researchers.

• Supervision: Currently advising PhD student Zekiye Goz

Collaborations: Co-edited a special issue on Online Speech for Philosophy (2024) and contributed to debates on analytic-continental philosophy and dialectical materialism. Active in public philosophy, including discussions on Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy and AI bias.