Commencing in October 2025
Dr Theodor Nenu is currently the Director of Studies for Philosophy at St Catherine’s College, as well as a Lecturer in Computer Science at Christ Church College. His academic background is in both Computer Science and Philosophy, having graduated with a MCompPhil degree from the University of Oxford in 2019. He then carried out his doctoral research at the University of Bristol as part of the ERC-funded Truth and Semantics project, spending some time in the United States as a Fellow in Philosophy at Harvard University in 2023. Theodor’s current research interests fall within the philosophical foundations of Artificial Intelligence, Cognitive Science, and Natural Language Semantics—with a special interest in the theoretical and ethical questions raised by AI Consciousness (and artificial minds more generally). He has been delivering the Philosophy of Cognitive Science core lectures for the Faculty of Philosophy since 2024, and his teaching experience spans both Computer Science and Philosophy. Theodor is the host of the Philosophical Trials podcast, whose guests include Noam Chomsky, Simon Blackburn, Scott Aaronson, and Robert Sapolsky.