Eliot Cellard du Sordet
Assistant-doctorant
contact : eliot.cellard@unine.ch
Eliot du Sordet is a PhD student in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Neuchâtel and a member of PhilInterp, working at the intersection of philosophy of mind and philosophy of AI. He is particularly interested in whether large language models represent the world and build world models of it, a question he approaches with findings from mechanistic interpretability. His work draws on teleosemantics, the theory on which what a state represents is fixed by the function it was selected to serve, and asks what that theory says about the representations found inside language models. He is also interested in how the move to agentic language models may change which mental capacities we attribute to them. He co-organises The Age of the Bookworm.
Philpeople: Eliot du Sordet
Talks :
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Only Agentic LLMs Can Represent the World
Workshop on Functions and Representations in AI Systems, Copenhagen (16-17 November 2026) -
Mitigating the Platonic Representation Hypothesis
The Age of the Bookworm, Geneva (11-12 November 2026)
