Semantics, Pragmatics and Philosophy of language

Free choice and presuppositional exhaustification (with Bassi, I. and Sauerland, U.) Semantics & Pragmatics, (forthcoming) [p. draft here]

The Logicality of Language: Contextualism vs. Semantic Minimalism Mind, (2022), 131(522): 381-427. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/mind/fzab020 [p. draft here]

Probabilistic semantics for epistemic modals: normality assumptions, conditional epistemic spaces, and the strength of ‘must’ and ‘might’ Linguistics and Philosophy, (2021). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10988-021-09339-6 [p. draft here]

Presuppositional exhaustification (with Bassi, I. and Sauerland, U.) Semantics & Pragmatics, (2021), 14(1): 1-42. DOI: 10.3765/sp.14.11 [p. draft here] (open access)

Oddness, Modularity, and Exhaustification Natural Language Semantics, (2021), 29: 115-158. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11050-020-09172-w [p. draft here]

The Logicality of Language: a new take on Triviality, `Ungrammaticality’, and Logical Form                            Noûs, (2019), 53(4): 785-218. DOI: 10.1111/nous.12235 [p. draft here]

Modals under Epistemic Tensions (with Waldon, B.) Natural Language Semantics, (2019), 27(2): 135-188. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11050-019-09151-w [p. draft here]

Meaning, Modulation, and Context: A Multidimensional Semantics for Truth-conditional Pragmatics   Linguistics and Philosophy, (2018), 41(2): 165-207. DOI:  http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10988-017-9221-z [p. draft here]

The Structure of Semantic Competence: Compositionality as an Innate Constraint of The Faculty of Language Mind & Language, (2015), 30(4): 375-413.  DOI: 10.1111/mila.12084 . [author's copy here]

Dual Content Semantics, Privative Adjectives, and Dynamic Compositionality                                             Semantics & Pragmatics, (2015), 8, DOI:  http://dx.doi.org/10.3765/sp.8.7. (open access)

 

Philosophy of mind and cognitive science

Asymmetry effects in generic and quantified generalizations (with Reuter, K. and Neufeld, E.) Proceedings of the 45th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (2023), DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/chbkq

Conceptual centrality and implicit bias  (with Spaulding, S.)                                                                                           Mind & Language, (2018). 33(1): 95-111. DOI: 10.1111/mila.12166 [p. draft here]

  • Discussed in Brains Blog symposium, with contributions by B. Huebner, E. Machery, E. Mandelbaum, S. Sloman and E. Sullivan-Bisset [Link]

Stereotypes, conceptual centrality and gender bias (with Madva, A. and Reuter, K.)                                              Ratio, (2017). 30(4): 384-410. DOI: 10.1111/rati.12170.  [p. draft here]

The Future of Cognitive Neuroscience: Reverse Inference in Focus  (with Nathan, M. J.)                              Philosophy Compass, (2017), 12(7). DOI: 10.1111/phc3.12427

Two Kinds of Reverse Inference in Cognitive Neuroscience  (with Nathan, M. J.)                                                            in The Human Sciences after the Decade of the Brain, (2017), Leefman & Hildt (eds.) Elsevier: pp. 121-139. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-804205-2.00008-2. [p. draft here]

Dual character concepts in social cognition: Commitments and the normative dimension of conceptual representations. (with Reuter, K.)                                                                                                                                     Cognitive Science, (2016), 41(S3): 477-501. DOI: 10.1111/cogs.12456. [p. draft here]

On the Content of Dual Character Concepts  (with Reuter, K.)                                                                           Proceedings of the 37th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, (2015), David C. Noelle & Rick Dale (Eds.). Pasadena, Ca: Cognitive Science Society. [p. draft here]

Prototypes as Compositional Components of Concepts                                                                                         Synthese, (2016), 193(9): 2899-2927.  DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11229-015-0892-0. [p. draft here]

Mapping the mind: Bridge-laws at the Psycho-Neural Interface  (with Nathan, M. J.)                                      Synthese, (2015), 193(2): 637-657. DOI: 10.1007/s11229-015-0769-2.  [p. draft here]

There and Up Again: On the Uses and Misuses of Neuroimaging for Psychology  (with Nathan, M. J.)        Cognitive Neuropsychology, (2013)30(4): 233-252DOI: 10.1080/02643294.2013.846254.  [p. draft here]