Nuhu Osman Attah

I am a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Australian National University working primarily with Colin Klein (and secondarily with Andrew Barron) on the Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery Project ‘Finding equivalence between natural and artificial intelligences’.

I completed my PhD in December 2024 in the department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh with a dissertation on conceptual and cognitive scientific issues surrounding Large Language Models.

Prior to my PhD, I completed my Bachelor’s degrees in Philosophy and Psychology (with a Cognitive Neuroscience concentration) at Rutgers University – Newark in 2018.

My primary area of research is in the foundations of cognitive science, conceptual and normative issues in artificial intelligence and machine learning, and philosophy of mind. I also have active research projects on topics within the general philosophy of science and the history of science (esp. the history of psychology).

I also have interests in but (for now) no sustained research projects in Islamic philosophy (I have an especial interest in the writings of Ibn ‘Arabi, Jallaludin Rumi, Bediüzzaman Said Nursi, and Muhammad Iqbal), West African literature and philosophy, informal logic, rhetoric, philosophy of language, among other subjects.