Semantics, Pragmatics and Philosophy of language
Meaning-driven unacceptability, the semantics-pragmatics distinction, and the spontaneous logicality of language. Philosophical Studies, (forthcoming), [p. draft here]
Free choice and presuppositional exhaustification (with Bassi, I. and Sauerland, U.) Semantics & Pragmatics, (2024), 17(3), DOI: 10.3765/sp.17.3 [open access]
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]
Selected for The Philosopher’s Annual 2018, which aims to collect the ten best philosophy articles each year.
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
Strategic communicators and asymmetry effects in generic and quantified generalizations (with Reuter, K. and Neufeld, E.). Cognition, (2024), 256. DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2024.106004
Giving generic language another thought (with Neufeld, E., Sterken, R., Bose, A.) WIREs Cognitive Science. DOI: 10.1002/wcs.70000
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): 233-252. DOI: 10.1080/02643294.2013.846254. [p. draft here]